This is how I spent part of my October break!
Thanks Hume Lake Christian Camps for coming to Thailand.
Every other year Hume Lake
Christian Camps in CA comes to Chiang Mai for a week of camps. They had camp
for the high schoolers from a Saturday to Tuesday and then the Middle School
got to experience camp life from the Wednesday to Saturday. I helped with the
MS camp two years ago and decided to help again this year.
I knew many of these kids as they
were 5th and 6th graders when I got here. Our role during
the camp is to be the camp “counselors.” This means that Hume brings people to
speak, lead worship, and plan games, but we provide the small group leaders. I
had 12 girls that I was in charge of and had the privilege to lead in small
group discussion groups, etc. Seven of these girls were 7th graders
from Grace and the other five were from other international schools in the
Chiang Mai area. It was a fun group, but a little hard to get a few of the
girls to open up and share. I know that for a couple of the students this was
just a “seed planting” time and for others they have grown up as missionary
kids and know it all J Trying to meet them all where they were at was
difficult but we had some great discussions.
I also had a group of about 14
students (boys and girls) for all our game times. We had a great time as it had been rainy
earlier in the week so the fields were completely muddy. It added so much more
excitement to each and every game!
The theme of the week was
“Wandering Lites” as in the Israelites. We also had times when the camp
counselors from Hume shared their stories. It was neat as a few of them had
also been missionary kids, so they could really relate to our students.
Please
be praying for the seeds that have been planted to take root in those that were
hearing much of this for the first time. Also pray for those who “know it all”
that they will make it their own and not just their parents’ faith.
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