school year

This time of summer (last week) I like to ask campers where they are going to school, what grade they will be in, etc.

One EP boy said: "I want to tell all of my friends about school about God."

Awesome.

How can we equip him to do that?  How can we equip every camper to do that?

correct response to tough situation

So not a fun story, but one of our campers broke his arm...

The cool part is we had staff praying with other campers and pointing them to Scripture as they were upset and said that there friend had been injured.

Jesus Video

A camper ran into the Jesus Video (we have one per camp), and requested to watch it.

So during a CIT time the older boys at Morton camp watched the video, even watching it through dodgeball time.. They had some great discussions after the crucifixion.

Wordless Book retelling

Morton camp: 22+ adults outside of camp told the Good News through the Wordless book

Pekin Camp: 17 kids turned in the sheets

EP: 46 Adults

believing in bowl a thon

One of our camper mom's who benefits from our scholarship program is so excited about our bowl a thon fundraiser she has asked multiple family and friends about their businesses donating gift cards and prizes to us.

It's nice to see both gratefulness and the acknowlegement that camp has been a good thing for her son.

week 5

Morton camper wanting references for all of the verses so she can look them up at home.

Week 4

Nick P from Pekin wanted a Bible so much his mom emailed me... then he remembered over a week later to ask for one.

Tyler B in Morton.. after discipline issue, got into Bible for 15-20 minutes with Becca.

EP: Directors did a great job having campers retell the story of Saul's conversion in 5 parts. About 1/4 of the kids told others.. several of them told multiple kids.

Andrew T accepting Christ then wanting and reading a Bible