"Our God is a Great Big God!"

By the grace of God I am made it through the week not only without getting sick but also with enough energy to pour into my g i r l s. By the grace of God 7 of my 8 campers either rededicated or gave their lives to the Lord. By the grace of God I had an absolutely amazing week that will probably be the best of the summer!

I've been trying for the last 30 minutes to post the other pictures from this week but it's not working and now I'm out of time :(. The week was amazing and God blessed me with so many opportunities to talk to the g i r l s about serious stuff through casual and fun conversation. I had a blast hanging out with them and spending so much time with them. I really wish though that I could get the other great pictures up here!



"M" and I hanging over the side of the bridge while waiting to see who's stick would come out first. This was while we were playing the "Pooh sticks" from one of the Winnie the Pooh episodes. Right after this we played "pass the sea weed with your toes", "laugh until your sides hurt" and "compare messy hairdos". :) The bridge before this one we spent an hour and a half sitting and talking about prayer, why we have denominations and what God thinks of them, purity and relationships. It was an AMAZING God brought opportunity and the s were so open and were asking so many questions.
Our volleyball against Chestnut cabin. I didn't let my s down thankfully - they were proud that I won an entire on serves :) haha.
Unfortunately we didn't win the match (best of 3), so we had to eat without hands. And we did it to - no hands for drinks, spills, dropped items, throwing away garbage or taking glasses on or off. We had a blast but we were a mess :).
The shirt signing party that lasted all of freetime. It was another God given opportunity and we spent a long time discussing the impact of music on our lives and why God in Phil. 4:8 commands us to fill our minds with right, pure, noble, excellent things.
Cabin Cleanup is a big competition here everymorning and we went all out. This is us standing next to our Tower of Bable display :).
Our hard work paid off and our reward for winning cabin cleanup everyday was an end of the week ice cream party!!!
Back in 2004 there were about 35 s blessed to be part of the first year of camp's Seeds program - a special discipleship program for middle school s. This picture is symbolic of us Seeds becoming blossoms. Of this original group of s, 9 (7 pictured) of us were back at camp serving and leading others. Five of us are SSTers, 3 were back as volunteer counselors and 1 of them is finishing LDC (our counselor training program). It was really neat to see how so many of us have come back to pour into other s the way our SEEDS leaders poured into us.

Well I wish I could say more cause it was such a God week and I wish I could show pictures but I have to go. I hope you all are having a great week.

Prayer Requests:
- Health
- Energy
- Wisdom in how to spend my time this week
- Time to really spend on my relationship with God and grow closer.

Love to all!