week one - terminat!

Condas and Dorin

First week of camp 2011, done!

It included all of the usual first week of camp craziness and adjustments, but it was a fun week! We worked with 7-11 year old at-risk for abandonment kids from a gypsy village, Apalina, this week. The number of kids on my team differed every day, from 8 to 11 kids. My favorite time of every day was craft time because even the most rambunctious and frustrating kids would calm down and focus on their craft, it was fantastic. It was at that time every day I was reminded by God of why I love doing this and why I need to be doing this... God is passionate about these kids and he is letting me have a part in telling them about his love.

In the last 45 minutes of camp on Friday we have the opportunity to share the gospel and pray over each child individually. This week, God really got a hold of me during that time and I realized that all of the moments throughout the week when I wanted to cry, when I was bitten or hit, when I just wished I could more easily talk to them in their language about why they had to sit out of a game or an activity, and even the times when I didn't feel like chasing them to bring them back after they ran away from the group - seemed so minimal in comparison to the beautiful time I got to spend with the kids praying over them. They were so calm, thankful, and receptive - God is the only one who could have made that possible.

Please pray for the kids with me - for God to put people in their lives, in their village, that will be lights for Him and that will be an example to these children. Gypsies/Roma people are not expected to become much. May they come to truly understand that God created them and loves them. I pray that the little boys and girls will break stereotypes and expectations and be so much more than thieves, prostitutes, and drunks... that they will be followers of the Most High God and seek to glorify his name.

Luke 1:37 - For NOTHING is impossible with God.