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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Jr. High Camp recap

So from Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon we were off with the OCSI Jr. High kids to there annual school camp! It's such a blessing seeing how much of an outreach ministry this school is. There are many Japanese who send their kids to "Christian School" for the purpose of having their kids receive a private, english education. The kid's aren't allowed to speak Japanese on campus and so they are forced to learn and practice their english extensively each day. This means though that there are many kids who don't know Jesus going to these schools; which is where evangelism and sharing the love of Christ comes in so crucially.
All the CCBC students went to either the Elementary camp or the Jr. High Camp. I was blessed with the opportunity to help out with the Jr. High. We did everything with these kids and got to share our hearts with the groups they put us over. My devotional group consisted of church going kids for the most part, so I was excited to have at least a foot already in the door in sharing the Word with them.
We did all sorts of activities, unfortunately many of which had nothing to do with the Lord and everything to do with keeping the kids busy, but on Thursday night we got to watch the Lord do great things. We had a camp-fire worship time, followed by a message from the Word. The whole purpose was to get everyone really reflecting upon where they were at personally with the Lord and where they needed to be, perhaps. We led the kids in a corporate prayer time where we prayed a salvation prayer for any who wanted to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior. There was no asking for a show of hands of who prayed or not, we simply told the kids after the prayer that if they wanted prayer for anything that they could come to the counselors standing around, outside the circle. That night will definetely stick in my mind as a huge blessing of God as His Spirit truly moved in the hearts of so many. As I looked into the sky thanking God for His awesome love, I could hear kids quietly sobbing as they reflected upon God's awesome love for them; I couldn't help but sing so loudly within my heart as all the world around me just seemed like one big flowing love song to the King of Kings.
In short, I was so blessed and will be keeping these kids and the school in prayer; praying that what God did that night won't be forgotten by either the kids or us as counselors. The Lord is faithful and will continue to work out glorious things by His Spirit. I pray I might only yield to Him in all things that He might be glorified in everyway.

Thank you Jesus!

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