A Busy Start

Hello everyone! I'm sorry I have not posted anything yet, i've been extremely busy!

CYIA (Christian Youth In Action) was great! We had a little over 100 teens and college bound students participate. I was a supervisor in literature distribution program where we walked the streets of Mexico and Rumford. We handed out around 715 "Meet the King" books and were able to talk to many children, teens and adults. We shared the gospel with them and there were about 25 decision made to receive Christ as their savior! The testimonies of the teens were a blessing to listen to. So many teens where excited about what was happening and what God was doing in and through them. During CYIA we have a concert on Thursday night. The college aged students usually sings a song together and this year was no different. Usually, we have about 15 people at the very maximum. This year, we have about 40 college aged students at CYIA. I was so thankful for their willingness to come to camp and to be that example to the other students.

I'm beyond thankful that God has provided Camp with a full college bound staff on the girls side! They are a great group of girls who love the Lord and are willing to go wherever needed. Please praying for these girls

Abbie                     Joanna                     Emily                    Allison

Jahnalene                Esther                    Emma                      Judy

Joanna                    Laurie                       Victoria                Kristen 

I'm praising God for the many opportunities God gave us during CYIA!!!

 

Jahnalene, Myself, Emma

Emma & I

Last morning chapel

Banquet Night 

Last Week

Hey friends and prayer warriors!

It's the last week of Camp! WOAH! Crazy huh? It's been a fast summer indeed! This week I'm Princess Happy Times as well as head counselor over the junior staff. So far it's been a good week. We (the college bound staff) are definitely tired and many of us are getting sick.

Last night I was put into the Chippewa cabin because the senior counselor (Jessica) wasn't feeling good. I slept in their cabin and stayed with them all this morning. Jessica is with them now, but we don't know how she will feel later on.

So this week is looking to be a good week. Please pray for strength, energy and health for this week.

As I was in the Chippewa, one of the girls talked about how she was unsure if she was really saved or not and she wanted to make that decision, so pray that she will get to do that!

If you think of it, many of us are leaving soon for college. Jonathan Frost is leaving Thursday to go back to college in Boston, Arianna is leaving Saturday to drive down to North Carolina, and Abbie is leaving sometime next week for Pennsylvania. Please pray for safe travels for them and that they would have a great year in school. When camp ends, I will be going straight into the classroom and trying to help my mentor teacher prepare for the upcoming school year. I'm beyond excited to start student teaching and am thankful for the opportunity to be student teaching in the same town that I live in. 

Thanks for all the prayers!!

Week 6 is almost over

Believer it or not, week 6 is almost over!! I can't believe how fast the summer has gone by. This week I am in a cabin. I'm in the Shawnee cabin and have 5 campers, three who are 12 and two who are 11. It has been a great week thus far and my girls are so excited to be here. My girls want to get honor cabin, so they have picked Echo's hut everyday for cabin time. Right now they are really hoping for tubby's which is an ice cream place that give free ice cream to the first place team on wednesday night. I'm also teaching canoeing which has been really fun. The kids are excited and want to learn which is great! Today I taught them how to tip the canoe and run off of it. The girls who jumped in really loved it!!

Last night I had a terrible migraine and was feeling really sick. After some sleep and taking my medicine, I'm feeling better. However, I do have a cold which includes a cough and stuffy nose. I'm hoping that I'll get better and not worse, so please pray about that since I do have one more week of camp.

Many hands make light work

Hey prayer friends! I have some quick updates for you!!

So this week has been great! I do have some prayer requests that we would love some prayer on. So last year, during week 2, we had to send campers home and close camp for that week and the week after. Many counselors that are here this week were also here that week. On Tuesday night, we had 2 campers (one boy and one girl )throw up. It was nothing big and they did not have a fever. We believe it was a combination of the food not settling well, the kids not drinking enough and running a lot. Wednesday night, we sent that one girl home because she was still not feeling well. We also had 2 girls, 1 boy, 1 kickapoo (little child) and 1 waitress who were not feeling well or had a fever. So please pray that all those who are not feeling well start to get better. Please also pray for those who were counselors the week last year that had everyone sick. I'm praying that they will not be stressed and worried, but to trust God in everything!


Thanks again!!

Can't Believe it's already week 5

Hello prayer partners!!

Believe it or not, it is week 5 here at Camp! For the college bound, that means that we have been here at camp for 6 full weeks and are on week 7. I can definitely feel my body becoming tired and ready for a nice long break! I'll give you a wrap up on Teen week first!

So the end of teen week was great!! I had great talks with my girls during the week and we really bonded as a cabin. I also became close with other girls in other cabins. By the end of the week, my blue team had won! I was so proud of the girls though because each and every one of them said their verses. There were 6 verses so say; 4 of which were small verses and 2 that were longer. On Thursday night during chapel, Pastor Mitch gave the teens an extra credit verse which was Jeremiah 29:11-13. I had 5 our of the 11 girls say that verse the very next morning!! The very last night(Thursday) of devotions, all the girls in the long house had one large devotion where we talked about inner beauty! It was a great encouragement to hear and see the girls in God's word. Overall it was a great week and it was a blessing to work with so many amazing girls!

The Blue Team                                 The Shawnee Cabin 

TEEN CAMP 2013

So this week now, is week 5. I'm again, Princess Happy Times, and we are having a great week! We have played a lot of new but fun games that the kids have really enjoyed and I'm sure will stick around camp. Please pray for homesickness. There have been a good number of campers who have been homesick the past few days. Praise God that we have had many stay behind in chapel and make professions of faith. I have had the opportunity to explain and lead someone to dedicating their lives to Christ as well as accepting Jesus into their heart. We have 3 more full days of camp and I can't wait to see whats next. 

Til then! :)

TEEN WEEK, TEEN WEEK, IT IS TEEN WEEK!

Hello friends!

It is teen weeks! I'm in the shawnee cabin and I have six girls! It's been a lot of fun so far! We have four different teams (Red, Yellow, Green, & Blue) and so far, my team (the blue team) is winning. I have really proud of my girls team because they recited 35 verses. 

We have 6 cabins of girls and 4 cabins of boys and thus far, we have had a great time in bible class, in missionary moments, and in chapels. Our team competitions have been so fun. We have done relay's and minute-to-win-it games. One of those games involved a teen putting pencils on the top of the fingers, throwing them up and catching them. They asked a leader to come up and I went up. I caught all 12 pencils and it was so awesome!! My team has great team spirit!!

As for our teens, they need some prayer. Some of the teens are going through some rough situations right now, personally and at home. Please also pray that they can follow the rules, especially with not having personal contact. 

Til next time :)

Week 3 - The place to be :)

Hello Prayer partners!!

I hope you all are surviving the crazy heat we are getting. It has been so hot out this week!! The end of week 2 went great! I had to leave early because of a wedding which was great! I was told about halfway through the week that i would be a counselor in an older cabin which made me really excited.

So now it is week 3 and we are having a fantastic week! I'm in the cherokee cabin and have 6 girls who are around the age of 11. I'm beyond blessed to have a cabin full of girls who have already accepted Christ as their savior. It's been great to connect with each of these girls and I've loved it! It's been such a good week!! The girls are having a great time and enjoying all the activities. On Monday we went to Echo's hut and did outdoor scavenger hunts; Tuesday we went to the camp store and then did a pop corn party with the missionaries; Wednesday we went back to Echo's and did a bunch of activities in the nature hut. Today we are going on a frog hut and the girls are absolutely excited!!

I'm looking ahead already for next week which is teen week. Please start praying for the teens and staff that we will here next week!