This year, 136 students attended Super Summer 2016 at Greenville College. The week is for students in grades 6-12. It is mostly geared toward those who are already leaders in their youth group – with the intent of discipling them to go back to their church and make even more disciples. “That’s what this camp is all about,” said Pastor Chip Faulkner from First Baptist, Bethalto, “maturing in Christ in such a way that passes it on.”
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‘We’re losing our country’
“The only hope for the United States of America is the Almighty God,” evangelist Franklin Graham told a crowd estimated at 6,000 in front of the Illinois State Capitol. “I have no hope in the Democratic Party, and I have no hope in the Republican Party,” Graham said, in a speech urging increased Christian involvement in the election process. He endorsed no candidate, but called on Christians to pray and vote. Read…