We’ve noticed that in today’s world a lot of youth spend time indoors playing video games on a daily basis, and not connecting to His creation, the outside world! They may know who Jesus is and what he did for us, but still not have a relationship with Him. There are some boys that have a relationship with Jesus, but aren’t as close as they would like to be, so seeing where they’re at with their walk with Christ we can help guide them to get to where they need or would like to be with Jesus.

The Question of the day for this weekend was “How is your relationship with your father?” Usually we have a mixture of Sportsmen on the hunt. Some with good relationships with their dads some do not have a good relationship, and some don’t have a relationship with their father at all. On this hunt all of the youth had a good relationship with their earthly father, as well as their heavenly one. This Hunt we really focused more on the Bible study rather than the hunt because it was still very wet and the birds were still not cooperating.

During this discussion the boys shared how they were blessed to have relationships with their earthly fathers because many of their friends and classmates didn’t. We discussed how the lack of fathers for their friends made them act out; get angry, and bully people. We discussed that the root of this may be because they don’t feel good about themselves. We spoke about how they can help their friends by helping them build a relationship with their heavenly Father. Through sharing how Jesus feels about them, similarly to how we helped another CTO Sportsmen deal with being bullied. We were glad it didn’t rain as much though because this outing the firewood remained dry and we could have a campfire outside.

Besides the campfire and hunt the boys always find away to have fun, even when their unplugged! We play board games, play catch with the hot hands, or just have Bear drive us around in the Mud Puppy!

The Boys were also happy because there were enough beds for us all to sleep on and the landowners gave them the ok so they didn’t have to sleep on cots. They were very thankful for that and the good food!

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