Family and Friends,
It has been a fast and crazy but great week and a half of training! As this week wraps up, we’re preparing to launch ourselves into a busy summer. Come Monday, this place will fill with highschool campers, the décor will be up, the skits will be practiced, the camp will be clean, the sessions will be over and numerous volunteers will join the staff team to reach out to the campers this summer.
I want to thank all of you so much for joining me on this journey. It was such a blessing to arrive at camp to find all of you on my support list and to discover that my support minimum has already been met! Praise God! I am so excited about the summer and cannot wait to see what God does in and through myself and all the other SSTers.
Though I was off to a slow start the first two days, God led me to deal with my selfishness and has helped prepare me to run (see Hebrews 12:1). My schedule has afforded little discretionary time and only an average of six – six and a half hours of sleep each night, but God has been so gracious to grant me with enduring strength (and so far health) and a willing and persevering spirit. I know my attitude was not of myself and I firmly believe it was the result of the prayers of my friends and family. For those of you who have also supported me in prayer – thank you!
God has also answered the prayer of a unified staff team. It has been so neat to see us grow together and to see God working in everyone’s lives. God has placed each one of us on this staff team for a purpose – an exciting, yet sobering thought – and it is my prayer that we will all serve Him diligently to achieve that purpose.
One of the things that has kept me very busy this last week is my involvement in the skits. I’ve had the privilege not only to head up the planning and developing of this year’s mime (a four and a half minute piece acting out a powerful song), but also directing it as well. I threw myself into it, knowing from experience how impactful lyrical mimes can be if done well. In addition, I also have parts in two skits – one of which I have to impersonate sin. That role was a challenge for me because it contradicts my personality, but I have been told I’m doing well and I’m excited to be able to participate in this serious skit portraying out human struggle with sin.
Similar to most people, my own struggle with sin is deeply rooted in selfishness. It is selfishness that interrupts a close walk with the Lord and selfishness that keeps us from admitting our faults and surrendering once again unto His will. Last week I read the words of Psalms 51:10-13 (I don’t have space to write it out but I recommend looking it up). Though I’ve known this verse for years in song form, I have never paid attention to the words. I can identify with that passage so much and it instantly became the heart-cry of my summer. Gorgeous passage.
We serve a great and faithful God. May He continue to strengthen and sustain me and may He truly bless your summer. Let the race begin!
In His faithful and unfailing grip,
Courtney Lynn
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