Kamp around the klok

July and August are the months for our summer Bible camp weeks. As mentioned in previous months, Shirley and Scott help out with many of the camp weeks. This year Shirley cooked at the Benjamin week (8-11 year-olds) while Scott was camp leader at the same week as well as camp leader and teacher at the Teen week. (12-14 year-olds). This current week, they are both commuting back and forth to camp (we only live about 50 minutes away) for Family Camp week where Scott is also helping with some of the teen lessons. 

The Benjamin camp week this year was extremely full for our standards, which is great! We had 28 campers, including 4 Ukrainian kids and a Ukrainian/Belgian camper. Most of the campers in this week were girls, but the guys certainly made their presence known. Our colleague, Karla Verheijen, and Lucinda Vrieze from Eindhoven did a wonderful job with the lessons, splitting the group up into younger and older campers. 

If you had a kid at camp, ask them the question that was asked in the week: Who is God? Ask about the cake, about the days of the creation, about how special God considers each one of us. If you would like to see pictures from the week, just click here. 

The Teen week “only” had 22 campers, but was equally divided between girls and boys. We once again had 3 Ukrainians and a young Russian-speaking teen who helped some with the translating. Lessona and communication was a challenge at the beginning of the week, but by the end, the kids had figured out how to make things clear. Games and food always help things along. During this week we looked at the law of Moses and asked the question: “What does God actually want?” 

If you had a camper at this week, test them to see which of the ten commandments they know. Ask them as well about what God really wants. You can find pictures of the week here. 

Scott needed a break and some good sleep, so he and Shirley are sleeping at home each evening after a day of Family camp. But it is so good to see some new faces at camp as well as some well-known faces and kids growing up. How wonderful it is to see how God can use these weeks to touch hearts and minds and to bring people to a full walk in His light.