Camp Adventures

This past summer has been wonderful! It started out with an epic road trip to Nelson with 4 other lovely ladies, then Tara and my two sweet nephews were here for a month, then I was blessed with the opportunity to go to camp. And in between all this I have been going to the beach and soaking up the sunshine in the beautiful Okanagan.

I was at a camp in Saskatchewan called Good Spirit Bible Camp. I was there for two weeks. The highlight of camp was definitely that one of my campers became a Christian. The Lord reminded me that he works in ways that are beyond us, ways that are above our simple understanding. A couple verses that have been close to my heart lately are, Isaiah 55:8-9,

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

and Ecclesiastes 11:5,

"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things."

It was so amazing to see God work so clearly. I was struggling at the beginning of the week to get my campers to open up, but I would daily ask the Lord for opportunities to talk to each camper one on one and he would make a perfect chance every time.

When I was talking to one camper about whether or not she was a Christian, she said she didn't know. So I took the opportunity to explain to her her need for a Savior and her need to repent and put her faith in God. After I was done explaining to her she started to cry, when I asked her why she was crying she said she didn't know. Then the bell for breakfast rang and she bolted up and left. I sat there thinking, "Oh man, what did I just do to my camper? I made her cry! I win the worst cabin leader ever award for sure!" Well I was burdened for her the whole day, I talked with Ash (one of my best friends who is the camp directors wife) and told her my problem. I felt so bad, but I kept praying for her and that an opportunity would come up again for us to finish our conversation.

That night I took her aside and asked her if she had thought about what we had talked about and if she was or wasn't a christian (we had to fill out a form on where they were spiritually and this was one of the questions). She said, "Ya, I am" I said, "Really? Like you did what we talked about earlier?" She said "Ya" I said, "When did you do this?" She had done it after breakfast! Praise the Lord! I was so happy. I was so sure that I had done something wrong to make her cry, but the Lord knew better and he was working in her heart. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. Two other boys were saved that week too! So keep all 3 of them in your prayers!

I was also encouraged at camp to hear some of the other staffs testimonies. I was constantly shown how the Lord uses camp to change people's lives. There were so many stories, mine included, of people who had either become Christians at camp, or who had been challenged at camp to take their relationship with God seriously and not just sit on the fence. I see how camp is an amazing tool that the Lord uses to change lives.

I was blessed with the chance to see some of my amazing friends from Bible College. The Lord's ways are always higher than we know, he can do all things even if it looks like a dead end to us! Here are a few pics from my summer.