High School Camp

This past week was incredible. I had the privilege of spending the week with eight girls from LA who all attend youth group at the World Impact Teen Center, Kaleo.

This past week, we had incredible amounts of fun. This was most definitely one of the weeks of my life I laughed the most in.

These girls are amazing. The majority of the girls are going into their senior year of high school. It was wonderful to have conversations about college, the future, life call, and God's direction with many of these girls. I also got the chance to talk and pray with girls about real struggles with self-image, abandonment, and abuse.

Thursday night after the big party where we got down on the dance floor and rocked Karaoke, we had an awesome cabin devotional time. We spent 2.5 hours praying for and encouraging one another. What a blessing to know these girls will return and have each other to support each other, as well as their incredible youth leader Sheila who co-counseled with me for the week.

On Friday when we said goodbye we exchanged hugs and tears. I'm asking God for the opportunity to see some of those girls again sometime.

God is good.

Jr. High Camp Update

Thank you so much for all of you who read my post about Jr. High camp and prayed for me. God's grace really carried me through the week. By the end of it, my girls who pretended they hated camp and me for most of the week were hugging me and telling me they were going to miss me and miss camp. I got to see God move powerfully to unite our cabin during the week and see the girls in my cabin respond to the love of God.

At one point in the week, girls from another cabin said some harsh words to one of the girls in my cabin, Cat. As she was crying, two of the girls that had been fighting with Cat all week came and put there arms around her and comforted her. During our devotions time that night after Fire Circle, Cat started crying and apologized to the other girls for fighting. She said "Where I'm from, people don't ever let go of grudges. Today, when Taylor and Destiny put their arms around me I knew that forgiveness was real and God's love was real. I know now that I can forgive people, and I don't have to hold grudges."

Praise God for His work!