Friday, June 29, 2012

Week One - Thursday update


What a blessing for camp staff to have the opporunity to be here and share the love with these wonderful children!  We are thankful for the nice weather, although hot! 

We have a few campers with discipline issues and we pray that it can be a great opportunity for us to love them and share our lives.  There are several campers with problems at home with fighting parents. We pray asking God to give them peace and comfort.  Please remember to pray for camp staff to have strength to deal with campers and share God's love with them.

During one of the optional cooking activities, one of the cooks helped the kiddos make cookies.  She gave them each a teaspoon of cookie dough to enjoy, however a camper named De’Andre decided to give his spoonful to another cook, Ms. Becky, which really made her day.  When De’Andre was told how this kindness made her so happy, it made him smile real big!  The rec staff then relayed the big smiles from De’Andre back to Ms. Becky, which brought tears to her eyes. All this happiness in such a simple act of kindness touched everyone else too!  Funny how one teaspoon of cookie dough can touch so many hearts!

Week One - Junior Camp


It's been a HOT week, but so much fun for the boys and girls, ages 9-10 who were blessed to attend.  Many of them came back from last year. A few girls were homesick the first day, but they were over it quickly.  One camper was so excited to be at camp, he said,  "It's my first time to be apart from my mom this far!" He got to experience fishing for the first time too!

One cabin got a chance to be in a morning skit where one of the girls enjoyed playing the part of  the 'King', which represents Jesus.  She learned that Jesus wants her to know more about Him.

It seems like campers are really enjoying the camp, they are so passionate to memorize the verse!  Praise the Lord!