youth camp

Praise God for an awesome week at camp. I'm sad I missed out. It's been so great to see the changes in the faces and the hearts of the youth that came back. We had two of our youth, Jolee and Andrew, accept Christ this week, and last night, after hearing their testimonies, one of our other girls did as well! I'm so excited for them and to see many people's prayers being answered. Please pray for them as they all will have bumpy roads ahead. I'm asking God to show them that He is bigger than both them and their situations.

For you that will pray, please know as well that the youth of this state have very serious issues that they are facing, from porn to STDs to rape to pregnancy to drugs and gangs and everything in between. We see them face temptations and hardships daily. My hope is that they will know Christ's power to heal and overcome. We caught a glimpse of that last night as we saw Him break through into the hearts of our youth.

I'm sure Matt and Kadee will be posting about camp on their blogs soon. They should have many more details since they were actually THERE and I am only reporting secondhand.

I did get to meet the camp speaker though and his wife and son, which was a treat. We went to Grand Rapids on Saturday night to meet up with them at Famous Dave's BBQ (of course!) Scott and Jamie were a lot of fun and just as "irreverent" as the rest of us. When Andrew was giving his testimony last night, he said something that made us laugh... that camp was "like church with fun." I think our lives are like "church with fun" all the time, especially when we get to meet such cool people.