Week 2

Well crazy as it seems to us here on staff, week 2 has come and gone. This week was great just as week 1 was and that makes me so very excited for week 3 which is just a day away.

The week started a lot more smoothly at registration and in the opening celebration. The first fun part of the week was that we had a church bring 105 high school aged youth to camp this week, which made up 1/5 of camp. Camp was a lot bigger this week with 110 more students, but I found out on opening night I was going to have a much smaller group of 23. And of that 23, 17 of them were going to be guys. So I got my group and headed to our room where we had a great MTET where i got to know almost all of my students names.

Bible Study this week was a lot more prepared, but the group this week was less talkative, it was frustrating at times because I didn't think they were getting anything out of it. But at the end of the week when I read their cards they wrote for me, I came to see that they did indeed listen and get a lot of things out of it.

Site this week was a lot better than the first, but that was just because I knew what to prepare for and prepare my group for. The center had a lower week in terms of number of kids so that probably contributed to a smoother week on site. My students did an absolute phenomenal job of being intentional in their conversations on site. It seemed like every time I looked around one of my students was in deep conversation with one of the kids on site. This culminated when, on Thursday, one of the kids accepted Christ. In addition to this, one of my students talked and found out another kid on site was a Christian and in conversation with him was just very encouraged by him. My student actually bought a new bible and gave it to this kid on friday. Needless to say, the week on site did my heart good.

Worship was a bit different this week. It started out GREAT for me by getting to see two good friends from home who were passing through and came and sat in on worship tuesday night. The rest of the week I spent running the words on the screen so I didn't get to see the kids worshipping which wasn't fun, but it gave me an awesome time of worship sitting backstage alone.

I had some great adults this week and I loved getting to know them and spend time with them over the course of the week! The week closed with Mega Relay which my group ended up winning our heat and I was so proud of them. Week 3 gets underway in about 28 hours and I'm ready for it!