Friendship Baptist Church, Aberdeen, Miss., brought its yearlong family discipleship program to a close at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega in May.
The goal of the program, which was filled with intense Bible study and personal reflection, was to encourage parents to be the primary spiritual mentors for their children.
“I was excited and pleased that our families stayed together, ate together, played together and prayed together. Much of church programming separates families in discipleship, but Shocco gave us the opportunity to worship and celebrate God together as families,” Pastor Mark Thornton said. “The ropes course perfectly fit into the goal to challenge families to work together, communicate effectively, solve problems together and to submit to God-ordained authority.”
The families worked together and enjoyed themselves, but Thornton said they also “had an opportunity to be challenged to take the next step of obedience to our Lord and to live a life of holiness and to uphold God’s standard of excellence.”
“The facilities and staff at Shocco were great partners,” he said. “Everything reflected a standard of excellence and a genuine desire to serve us as we tried to serve our families.”
The group from Friendship Baptist was one of more than 40 to utilize the center’s conference rooms, dining hall and various recreation activities in May, which also marked the beginning of Student Life camps this summer. Student Life, which partners with the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions for its camps, will have several thousand students visit Shocco through late June.
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