Pastor Josh leads a great ministry in Ashboro, NC that helps give under-privileged children and teenagers the opportunities they otherwise would not have. I have requested the Josh write a brief letter explaining his ministry, the positive affects one week of camp has on these young people, and the financial struggle his organization must go through to get them to camp.
Living Hope Camping Foundation, Inc. will support this fantastic ministry allowing them to continue great work without needing to spend so much time paying for camp. Enjoy!
Dear Friends,
My name is Josh LeRoy, and I am the director of a ministry called The Bridge Project. In our ministry, we seek to build relationships that cross the race-divide. Some of the most important relationships that we have built are with the young people in our community. Many of the boys and girls of our community do not have a lot of exposure to the natural world. We seek to remedy that. I sincerely believe that the best thing we do is take groups of these kids to summer camp. Getting these kids into the woods, and into the presence of adults whom are affirming and caring has been irreplaceable. Kids have constantly come home more at peace than before. All of this in a matter of five days!
That said, fundraising remains a challenge. Working with young people, whose families are in a financial bind, means raising several hundred dollars per child. Grassroots fundraising have proven to be our best avenue for attaining our goals, that said, we have come up short on occasion. In fact, this year we came up some five hundred dollars short. Other sources of revenue, outside of the private sector, would allow us to more readily meet our goal, if not expand our goal considerably. Thank you for your interest in this matter.
Thanks,
Josh LeRoy
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Winning
I believe winning matters. If you know me at all, you know that I am competitive, and I want to win! However, I also believe that winning isn't everything. While watching Cool Running Irving Blizer said something that sums up winning:
"If you aren't enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."
As much as I love to win, this is so true, for two reasons:
1) Winning all the time isn't success.
2) Life is much deeper.
On number 1)
When people train, prepare, and strive for success they are, of course, striving for victory but how many successful people have won at everything they do? I am sure their are a few who seem to win at everything, but the big winners lost a lot before they won. Why would I say this? How else do you learn? How else do you get better? If you have never lost, never failed, and never struggled, you have never challenged yourself to be more and do more. You may win at everything you do, but are you really getting better? Or are you merely maintaining of bare minimum life? I say, if you want to do BIG things you need to fail. You need to LOSE a few! Should you try to lose? NO!!! Never try to lose, do your best and honestly evaluate your mistakes and weaknesses. By pushing yourself to new levels, you can trully reach greatness and and, ultimately, success. Honestly evaluating yourself and suscepting yourself to critismn is tough, but it is very worth it! Most importantly, you can't think of failure as a negative, but as progress, and finally, simply winning cannot be the reason, life is bigger than that.
On number 2)
Life is about so much more than anything you and I can win or be successful at. Think about everything in your life more important than earthly winning and success. At the top belongs God, family, friends, etc. If what you desire to win at comes before things like this you hvae a problem because if you don't win in these areas, winning anywhere else doesn't mattar one bit! Once your priorities are in the correct order you can focus on winning in business, sports, games or anything else you can think of.
Keep striving to win, Keep challenging yourself, Never be afraid to fail but always learn and grow, and most importantly, ALWAYS win in the important areas of life before focusing on the others fun and sometimes necessary parts of life.
"If you aren't enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."
As much as I love to win, this is so true, for two reasons:
1) Winning all the time isn't success.
2) Life is much deeper.
On number 1)
When people train, prepare, and strive for success they are, of course, striving for victory but how many successful people have won at everything they do? I am sure their are a few who seem to win at everything, but the big winners lost a lot before they won. Why would I say this? How else do you learn? How else do you get better? If you have never lost, never failed, and never struggled, you have never challenged yourself to be more and do more. You may win at everything you do, but are you really getting better? Or are you merely maintaining of bare minimum life? I say, if you want to do BIG things you need to fail. You need to LOSE a few! Should you try to lose? NO!!! Never try to lose, do your best and honestly evaluate your mistakes and weaknesses. By pushing yourself to new levels, you can trully reach greatness and and, ultimately, success. Honestly evaluating yourself and suscepting yourself to critismn is tough, but it is very worth it! Most importantly, you can't think of failure as a negative, but as progress, and finally, simply winning cannot be the reason, life is bigger than that.
On number 2)
Life is about so much more than anything you and I can win or be successful at. Think about everything in your life more important than earthly winning and success. At the top belongs God, family, friends, etc. If what you desire to win at comes before things like this you hvae a problem because if you don't win in these areas, winning anywhere else doesn't mattar one bit! Once your priorities are in the correct order you can focus on winning in business, sports, games or anything else you can think of.
Keep striving to win, Keep challenging yourself, Never be afraid to fail but always learn and grow, and most importantly, ALWAYS win in the important areas of life before focusing on the others fun and sometimes necessary parts of life.
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