So my first week as a staffer at M-Fuge has wrapped up and I am completely exhausted. Camp provided such an amazing week for all involved. I could not have asked from anything better from my first group as a staffer. The week started off with an amazing opening celebration that got everyone really excited for the week of fuge ahead.
Opening night bible study time was a great time spent with my group. After getting all the paperwork out of the way and explaining what the rules for the week were and what to expect on our ministry site, we went outside to play some name games. Then began the process of training my group to do evangelism on our ministry site. We ended our first night by playing some more games with some other groups outside.
Bible study started off rough at the beginning of the week, but got more awesome by the day. After a day of warming up to me and to each other, they really started discussing things in the group and talking about things on a deeper level and this made me very happy!
Ministry Track Site did about the same as bible study, it started off a little rough, but got progressively better as the week went along. This site has a lot of kids (around 160) and they range in ages from 6-14 supposedly, but there were some kids there that were older in high school. It was really neat to watch my students interacting with the kids on site and talking to them. They were so much fun to watch playing. I can tell already that my heart is going to break for the kids at this site as the summer progresses. They were so starved for attention and it was good to watch them get that this week. While on site this week, one of my students led one of the kids to Christ; it was just a great time!
The other serious note is that in my one-on-one time spent with students I discovered one of my students who proclaimed to be a Christian, when in reality, he was not. He told me he just circled yes because its what he thought I wanted to hear. Well after a message last night about not faking being a follower of Christ, he was convicted and accepted Christ, he told me this at breakfast this morning and I was very excited about it.
One thing that coming into camp I was not excited about was mega relay. For those of you who have never experienced fuge, mega relay is an event that challenges your students in every way possible. They have events that they have to work as a team and events that test some individuals. I always hated it as a camper, but after my first night running it as a staffer and encouraging my kids along, I absolutely love it. It culminates the week, and its fun to see how at the end of the week, they really do act as a team.
Be praying as we go into week 2, that ministry on site gets a lot better and that I can find some more time to spend with my students.
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