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Dive Report: White Star Quarry - July 2023

  Weekend Dive Report   White Star Quarry – Gibsonburg, Ohio 7/15-7/16, 2023 Scott’s SCUBA Service (Freeport, PA) – Advanced Open Water Class   10 students, 2 instructors, 3 divemasters   ------------------------------ The weekend started off by camping at the Toledo East/ Stony Ridge KOA Journey campground. Tent camping is not the diver’s preferred method of sleep arrangements due to the lack of space to air out dive gear at night but it was sufficient and can be done with an acceptance of some sacrifices. Thunderstorms on Friday night were a welcomed event that reminded me of the many nights spent in wilderness places as summer storms rolled overhead. Day 1 I arrived at White Star Quarry at about 7:40 on Saturday morning and met one of the divemasters, Brian, who was there early to claim some parking spots for his gear trailer and Scott’s SCUBA rental gear trailer. As students and the instructors arrived, we paid our $ 20-a-day per diver fee at the registration station and began to b
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Final Reflections from the Netherlands 2017

I have uploaded my paper here which was submitted to PTS for the class "The Church Amidst Secularization". It was a great trip and if folks have questions or would like to see a presentation, please contact me. Thank you all for following my journey. Peace to you, Ryan
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Day 10

Prayer: Psalm 27:4-5 4   One thing I asked of the LORD,          that will I seek after:     to live in the house of the LORD          all the days of my life,     to behold the beauty of the LORD,          and to inquire in his temple. 5   For he will hide me in his shelter          in the day of trouble;     he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;          he will set me high on a rock. Devotion: Deuteronomy 9:27-29 27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin, 28 otherwise the land from which you have brought us might say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.’ 29 For they are the people of your very own possession, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.” Journal: Today was our l
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Day 9

Prayer: Psalm 5:7-8 7   But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,          will enter your house,     I will bow down toward your holy temple          in awe of you. 8   Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness          because of my enemies;          make your way straight before me. Devotional: Hebrews 3:12-19 12Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end. Journal: We woke in the wonderful town of Mantgum and were greeted by our host at the B&B and we all had breakfast together. After gathering ourselves for the day, Hinne returned with others in different cars so we all had a ride to the church in Jorwert that is only the next vill
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Day 8

Prayer: Psalm 25:4-5 4   Make me to know your ways, O LORD;          teach me your paths. 5   Lead me in your truth, and teach me,          for you are the God of my salvation;          for you I wait all day long. Devotion: Hebrews 3:1-6 1 Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also “was faithful in all God’s house.“ 3 Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. 4 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) 5 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. 6 Christ, however, was faithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope. Journal: Our group decided that with
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Day 7

Prayer: Psalm 119:73-76 73  Your hands have made and fashioned me;          give me understanding that I may learn your commandments. 74  Those who revere you shall see me and rejoice,          because I have hoped in your word. 75  I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right,          and that in faithfulness you have humbled me. 76  Let your steadfast love become my comfort          according to your promise to your servant. Devotion: Deuteronomy 8:6-12 6 Therefore keep the commandments of the LORD your God, by walking in his ways and by revering him. 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine c
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