Northland Mission.Camp Trip 2007

After our regular team devotions, which by the way have been great! We are studying the book of Nehemiah. We spend 35 minutes digging into a passage by ourselves and then discuss the applications for 15 minutes. The team has been sharing and learning alot about servant leadership….and the best part is, they can put it into practice all day long. We have been learning to lead only in the strength of Christ. That we don’t have the ability. We must have the God focus that Nehemiah had. Anyways, back to the update…after morning devotions we joined the camp staff for saturday staff meeting. We were introduced to the Northland spirit and exitement quickly as the biggest cleanup day of the summer!!!!!!!!!! was introduced. I’ve heard that its the biggest cleanup day every Saturday, but we didn’t ask questions. They introduced us to the staff as a whole, and we got 2 standing ovations for coming to help. They are so grateful for our help. We’ve been such a blessing both to the staff and the campers to come. God has given us a unique ministry here!

We were split up into teams to help the staff whip the camp back in shape for another week of camp. Some pulled stumps in the picnic area, others cleaned the cabins, some were able to be on super trash duty. The kids jumped right in and helped the staff finish power jobs early. Which is a great blessing to them!

After lunch and some free time, we headed out to a small church that the Program Director is serving as Pastor at. They had nearly completed a new building and were in need of some help finishing off some major weeds and brush that grew up. We were able to conquer a major chunk of that work for them this afternoon. God gave us strength and ability and great attitudes to serve with gladness! The church had some workers out to join us as well. They fed us a great meal afterwards, and we stole over to the park next door to play some basketball, sit on some swings, and enjoy the weather. It has been gorgeous, by the way. Cool 60s at night and 80 during the day…beautiful. You should be jealous of your teens.

Please pray for us tomorrow as we attend church services and try to rest for the week of camp next week!