Week 3

Well week 3 is over, and actually week 4 has already begun. Week 3 was a great week. I had an amazing group of kids, and adults this week... and yesterday I was sad to see them leave. On friday, I took my group to an apartment complex and got to spend some time just playing with and loving on the kids in a huge field. It was one of my favorite days of site so far... there were 5 sweet babies under the age of 4 and they were such blessings. I have some fun pictures of them, that I will add when I have some time. But they were absolutely adorable! 

Last night we went out with our lifeway coordinator and our entire team for our staff appreciation dinner.. we went to the cheesecake factory and it was delicious! I got a yummy pasta dish, and then some chocolate raspberry truffle cheesecake (could that sound anymore like me if it tried?!?)

After dinner, we came back to campus and had to set back up the stage, because today at 10:30 started week 4! This weekend was a bit shorter, than most, but because of it next weekend we get 3 days off!! yay! Well I need to get ready for opening celebration. 

Please pray for our team this week. We didn't get much off time this weekend, and so we are all starting this next week very tired. Pray that God will give us the energy that we need, to have an amazing week of camp! Thanks guys.

Week 2

Week 2 of camp is over... I have very mixed feelings about it. I had an amazing group of bible study students, and my site this week was absolutely amazing. But we had some rough times on our team... including many trips to urgent cares, and emergency rooms. But in the end it was still an amazing week, and God's work was still done. Lives were changed, and that is what camp is all about. At my site alone, 6 boys became christians! These boys have horrible home lives, and have lived through things things that I cannot even imagine, their lives were changed for eternity. I feel so lucky to be able to be a part of something so big and so awesome. 

Here is a picture of my site kids, and bible study kids from this week. 

.: I maybe down but I will rise. It maybe dark but God is light:.

Week 1

Week 1 was absolutely amazing. First weeks can be hard, especially when it's the first week at a location, and amazingly this past week so well. I had an amazing group of bible study kids, and I love my site kids... it was great! Tiring but amazing. I've spent the weekend trying to get caught up on sleep, but we'll see how long that lasts. Other than that we have just spent the whole weekend hanging out and having fun. Today we went to the laundromat.. I spent 9 dollars to wash and dry two loads... that was lame, but I needed clean clothes. Well I'm about to go grab some dinner with everyone. Have a great night!

Tomorrow at 10 am starts week 2... :)

The campers are coming!

Tomorrow around 1:00, we will start our first week of camp. We have spent the last 11 days trying to learn and prepare for camp, and tomorrow it all starts! It is a very exciting, yet scary time. This time last year I was nervous, anxious, and worried that I wouldn't be able to remember everything that I needed to. This year, I am calmer. There is a healthy amount of worry, but mostly I am just pumped to do it all again! 

Please pray for our team, many of us have some type of cold or something. One of us had it, and it has passed from person to person. It's nothing horrible. But coughing and congestion, and just feeling like junk. Today during our prayer, 10 of us coughed and it was only a 2 minute prayer! So hopefully God will heal us quick! oh and this morning the program staff brought us breakfast... it included Muffins, donuts, orange juice, and Vitamins! So hopefully the healing will come fast! 

Well I need to finish some laundry, and then get some sleep. 

Day off..

Today is our day off. With eleven days of training, they give us an entire day off to do whatever we want. Which is amazing. For me that meant sleeping in until 10:15, getting ready, getting a pedicure, and then shopping. Right now I am being responsible and getting my laundry done. And I am enjoying just some alone and quiet time. It is great. Right now a bunch of the team is playing some basketball, so in a while I think some of us will go watch them.. it will be good times.

This time next week, we will have campers! That is such a crazy, yet exciting thing to think about. I cannot wait. As I start this summer I have a few things I could use some prayer about...energy, patience, intentional ministry, good health, good attitude and above everything else that God will be able to fully use me for His glory. 

Last night our staff had a time of worship together. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. At Samford they have this beautiful Chapel and we got to have worship in there last night. It is absolutely gorgeous. We sang some songs, we read through some verses and then we just sat and thought, and prayed and sang some more. It was so amazing, and exactly what I needed in that moment. The entire time we were in there, my thoughts were about heaven. About me someday going to heaven, praying for those in my life who don't have a relationship with God, and also just about how it is up to us as christians to go and spread God's word and love to those who don't know Him. It left me feeling so lucky to be worthy of something life heaven... I'm a sinner, and despite that, I get to spend eternity with God. 

This is such a wonderful and exciting thing that He has allowed me to be a part of, and I am so thankful for that. Well I think I am going to go call my parents... 

Training Week

Well guys lots of stuff has been going on since I last updated. arrived in Birmingham AL on thursday. Since then, we have been doing non-stop training from about 8am-11pm-ish. It's a lot to take in and learn in a short time, but it is all so helpful and will make camp work so much better. 

Well guys It's almost midnight, and I have to be up early so I can't fill you in on everything. But I do want to tell you about tonight. For "family time" we spend about 2 hours in prayer. First we all spent time praying over each other, then we prayed for the students we will be working with and for the burdens they could/will have this summer. It was so great. Just to hear so many people praying out loud at the same time, left me feeling so blessed to be here doing this. 

My team is ahmazing. We are such a perfect mix of people and I have already fallen in love with them. This is going to be a great summer. And I can't wait to see how God uses me and this team for His glory.

Goodnight guys. Love you!