Colombia

I always think that it’s good that I wait a few days before I blog about camp because if I were to blog right after it, it wouldn’t of been very positive.  And being honest I would say that it was probably the hardest one that we have had. I was exhausted and tired and stressed before this camp even started.  There were a bunch of things that happened with bank cards and having to cancel a camp and move it to  later date and just a few other things, so to say the least I didn’t have a lot of patience which is just what this group needed. There were 29 of them and there were a lot of little gangsters, like for real.  We had problems with them stealing mangoes and chips and some pool toys.  We did bag searches and took away pool time and the last day when we couldn’t find these pool toys I had that we also used for a team building game I said to my friend “I feel defeated and I just can’t anymore” That’s how I felt leaving the camp and I said to tha...

So just a few more days to go…..so that means my life is a little bit more crazy, a little bit more stressful and way more exciting… I thought I would do just a quick update before I head out on Sunday…. I forgot to put this in my last Blog but the space we rent now has room to add one more cabin, that means  5 more kids, which is so exciting to me, I hate telling kids that we are full and have no more space.  Well we still have to turn some away at least it is five less no’s in every camp. We also have all the staff we need and I’m having to turn staff away because we are FULL, FULL, FULL And all the finances came in, PRAISE GOD, so thank you soooo much for all your support.  Every year I think I got this faith thing all under control in regards to the finances… but it’s not quiet under control yet as I still have little freak outs, maybe one day I won’t freak out. Also a little bit of sadder news, well it might not be that sad but when I was plannin...

So round one of Camp Gozo was awesome.  We had 24 beautiful girls.  And they were soo loveable.  They were cute and sweet and they were bombarded with hugs, which they received so openly.  Our director of our ministry here in Colombia was at the bus to pick up a girl and he told me that when they got back the girls were bouncing with joy and could not stop talking about camp and that he got so many hugs from the girls that went.  So our prayers about feeling the joy and love of their Father were answered 10 fold.  They were beaming with it.  Also a good friend of mine in Canada made salvation plan book marks and we split up in smaller groups to go over these book marks and this was a huge success with all 24 girls making a commitment to Christ….So it was two shot days of camp, but it was two days filled with love and joy and laughter and lots and lots of hugs. So now we just have 20 days until we get into round 2,3,and 4.  This is where my li...