Night Hike & Hope Gardens Girls

Above you will see me with one of my campers from 1st-3rd grade, Miriam. On the last day of camp, she wrote me a note that read "Thank you for helping me Haley. I will miss you so much."

My last couple days with my girls this past week were great. Our last night together, after the night pool party, our cabin hiked up the trail to tents to camp out (each cabin camps out once a week). We have the kids hand us any flashlights we have and do the hike totally in the dark. It's cool to see how the kids respond to the idea of God creating the night, and giving our eyes the ability to adjust to the dark, as it was all new to them. When we got to the top, we had everyone stop and be completely silent as we looked up at the stars. We then asked everyone who saw something they had never seen before to raise the hands, and almost everyone's hand went up.

During our debrief from the week yesterday afternoon I was given the list of girls that will be in my cabin this next week. I will be working with another counselor here named Jen to lead a cabin of ten girls. All of these girls are coming from Hope Gardens, and transitional living facility for women and children coming off of the streets. Pray for me, as I connect and minister to ten little girls that have only recently had somewhere to call home.

Pray that God would continue to give me strength and His heart.

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