One month down...two to go!

Precious Lord, give me Your words to present the Gospel clearly to these girls at every opportunity. Help me to love them relentlessly just as You love me remembering “my reward is with my God” (Isaiah 49:4). Speak, Lord, I beg You. Penetrate their hearts this week and transform their lives. Take me out of the equation. Only Your glory.

This is a prayer I wrote in my journal this past week, and it expresses a lot of what my experience here has been. I’ve been with three different groups of campers so far, two of the groups were 5^th graders, and the most recent group was 8-10^th graders. With the first group, we didn’t live in with the campers, we were just team leaders and went around with a certain group of girls and their leaders and facilitated the activities.

The Lord has been so faithful to make the Gospel CLEAR to me so that I have CONFIDENCE in sharing it. This is something that I have never experienced before and I am so incredibly grateful!! There is SO much that the Lord is teaching me--I have never been in a place of such joy and understanding! As I am acclimating and feeling more comfortable and at home here, it all feels like such a great adventure! I absolutely LOVE being in the outdoors--hearing the super loud crickets at night and staring up at the stars. We had an INCREDIBLE thunderstorm last week and it was a kiss from the Lord because it gave us extra rest time in our cabins and it was so peaceful and refreshing :)

I have discovered that boating in one of my favorite things in the entire world and we get to do it every week with our campers! We are required to ride on the tube and the banana boat with every group of campers so that there is always a counselor in the water with them :) I also love being on top of the 50ft tower, hooking the campers in and sending them of the 1,000 ft zipline! These are just a few of the super fun activities we get to do with our campers :)

Here are some verses that I've been holding on to this past week...

"...if we are faithless, He will remain faithful, for He cannot disown Himself." 2 Timothy 2:13
"But God's word is not chained." 2 Timothy 2:9b
"Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who CORRECTLY handles the word of TRUTH." 2 Timothy 2:14

Please continue to pray for the Lord to work here! He is POWERFUL and WORTHY of all glory and praise! Pray that He would open the eyes of every camper that comes through our gates. Pray that He would reveal Himself to the hearts of the precious kids that have been here and are now gone and those that are going to come.

"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."
2 Timothy 1:7

I love you all and thank you for your prayer and support!! I am encouraged every time I think of you.