brief update

Well, once again I must hurry with the update. My apologies. One day I shall return to the blogging world.
In brief, the last three weeks have been amazing, exhausting, inspiring, depressing, energizing, and bewildering.
It shocked me how little so many of the campers knew about the Bible. Most didn't know what the difference between Old and New Testaments was, out of a cabin of seven only one girl knew the story of Esther, out of a cabin of six none knew the story of Ruth. One girl asked what kind of mother would name her son Ruth. I said well, Ruth was a girl and then they became more interested.
The last camp of kids was the most challenging but the most spiritually rewarding. A girl came forward on the last day when I caught her eye and told me she wanted to receive Christ as her Savior but didn't know how. She started crying when she told me she knew she was doing bad things that made God sad. So we prayed together and I asked her if she recognized she was a sinner, there was no other way to be saved except for Christ, and if she wanted to ask Jesus to be King of her life. She said yes, and I told her once she became a Christian her life wasn't her own anymore; it belonged to Jesus. She was a soldier waiting for orders from now on. She nodded and I told her to go ahead and tell God everything she just told me. After she prayed I said "Guess what! Now we're sisters. Did you know that?" Her eyes lit up and she shook her head. "How?" she asked, her tears drying. "Because once you become a Christian you join the family of Jesus, and I'm part of that family. So we're sisters!"
After the service she ran around asking people if they were saved and then joyously proclaimed, "Then we're sisters!" or "So we're brother and sister!"
It was really cool because one of the leaders had led FOUR girls to Christ the first week, and I had prayed, "Lord, I've never led anyone to You. I don't need to if that's not what You have for me, but I'd really like to if that's Your will while I'm here." And the last week my prayer was answered. Yay!!!
Tomorrow we hit the road as a team traveling to various Southern Baptist Churches in Kentucky who have requested that we run day camps for their kids. I've been told these are a breeze compared to the campground camps.
I should have more regular internet access. Hope so.
Happy Independence Day, by the way!!! celebrated by going to church, drinking tea with my Indian friends, exercising in my apartment, then my good friend picked me up and we watched x-men 2 and Hogan's Heroes whilst drinking milk and eating fresh brownies. She is knitting socks and I'm working on a cross stitch. Yeah, we're nerds. :-)

~Princess Ouch~