Share Your Summer

Have you been to SpringHill this summer? Did you soar on the Flying Squirrel? Did you take the big plunge on the gusher? Did you discover something exciting about God during a Rap Session? We want to hear all about it. Check out this issue of The Hopper to learn how you can tell your SpringHill story. If you're still waiting for your week at SpringHill, we can't wait for you to get here and hope the experience will give you a lot to share, too! Don't forget to look for The Hopper every month throughout the school year. It's a great way to stay connected to SpringHill and get encouraged about a new or growing relationship with Jesus!

What's Happening at SpringHill Michigan

There's still time to experience the best week of summer twice! When you sign up for a second week at SpringHill this summer, you'll get $100 off! Tell your mom or dad to go to the SpringHill webpage to check for availability and to register. Be sure to use promotional code SS06 to receive your discount. For more information, call 231-734-2616.

Bring your whole family to SpringHill for an awesome weekend of Family Camp. Finish out the summer by flying down the zipline with your mom or hitting the horseback trails with your dad or following your big sister down the gusher. Have out-of-this-world fun and experience God in a real way with your whole family. It all happens here September 1-4! Check out all the details on our website. (Then, say to your parents, "Let's go to SpringHill!")

3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders - tell your church youth leader about SpringHill's fall retreats! In Michigan we'll be meeting at the Hill for two Juniors retreats: November 17-19 and December 1-3. A live band, out-of-this-world activities, time to grow with God and as a group - it'll be your group's greatest event of the year.

What Good Is an Eye without an Ear?

The body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, "because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not am eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. -1 Corinthians 12:14-18

Have you ever thought about the way God designed your body? Every part has its own special function. Imagine if your eye decided that it was the most important part of your body and was able to shut the other parts down. You could see, of course, but you couldn't walk or hear or smile. Every part of the human body is necessary and equally important.

In these Bible verses, the author is using this example of the human body to talk to us about another kind of body - a body or community of people who love and follow Jesus. Like the human body, a community cannot be full of people who go it alone and live life for themselves. It also cannot be full of people who look and act and think exactly alike. A community needs people who are different and who depend on each other to work together as a whole.

Share some questions and answers with your parents: Why do you think God made your body the way he did? Are there parts of your body you could live without? Would your body still be a body if it were only one part, like an eye or a hand? Would your family be a family or your church be a church if it was made up of you alone? Why do you think God compares his church to a body? Why did God make us to live and worship and be together?

Do-It-Yourself SpringHill Adventures - Flea Fly

If you love friends and fun songs and toasty marshmallows melting chocolate, you'll love a SpringHill campfire. Practice up on one of our favorite campfire tunes (and when you see all the crazy words in it, you'll see why you'll want to practice). Or, if you've already sung Flea Fly around the blazing timbers, the lyrics will help remind you of one very special SpringHill memory.

Flea (flea)
flea fly (flea fly)
flea fly flo (flea fly flo)
Lavista (lavista)
Cumma lada Cumma lada cumma lada vista (cumma lada cumma lada cumma lada vista)
Oh no no no not la vista(Oh no no no not la vista)
Eni Meni deci meni ooh wadda wadda meni x-ameni zal-ameni ooh wadda wah (Eni Meni deci meni ooh wadda wadda meni x-ameni zal-ameni ooh wadda wah)
a beep billy ope bope bo bo ba detin dotin hotcha wawwa yeee hah.(a beep billy ope bope bo bo ba detin dotin hotcha wawwa yeee hah).

Flea (flea)
Flea fly (flea fly)
Flea fly mosquito (Flea fly mosquito)
mosquito (mosquito)
Calamine calamine calamine lotion (calamine calamine calamine lotion)
Oh no no no not the lotion (Oh no no no not the lotion)
Itchy itchy scratchy scratchy OOh I got one on my backy (itchy itchy scratchy scratchy ooh I got one on my backy)
Quick get the bug spray I think he went that away (Quick get the bug spray I think he went that away.
psssh uggh I got that bug (pssh uggh I got that bug)

Tell Your SpringHill Story

If you spent a week of your summer at SpringHill this year, we want to hear about it! What the craziest thing that happened? The most special moment? The biggest thrill? What made your heart soar-the blob, the zipline, campfire or lunchtime skits? We want to know!

Email us and give us the scoop on your summer at SpringHill. Be sure to let us know if we can share your story in an upcoming issue of The Hopper. Write to us today!