Its been a while since we posted last, so we have a lot to share!
We had our first Camp Life prep meeting with Family Legacy last Sunday and we are even more excited than before!! Amanda stated it well when she said that it appears every aspect of Camp Life was and is thoroughly prayed through to have a real impact on the Kingdom. The theme word for Camp Life this summer is JOY:
JOY will be an acronym taught each day.
J esus
O thers
Y ou
The beginning of the week will focus on who Jesus is and what he teaches.
The Thursday of camp will be a very special time, as Amanda and I will each take our 15 children and pass out blessings to the community in pairs. These children who have nothing will have the opportunity to give packages of sugar, cooking oil, and meilie-meal (a coarse corn flour) to people who place little value on orphan lives. Though only around $10 in cost, the gift itself is of great value to those who will receive it, and the joy of serving others will greatly excite the children!!
The last day of camp the children will be reminded that their reward for serving others will come in heaven, but Family Legacy wants to give them a small preview of what that will be like. Each child will be surprised by a Camp Life bag that is full of their own bag of sugar, their own cooking oil, and their own bag of meilie-meal! This is epic because a majority of these children are living in homes that were poor even before the orphan came to live with them. Due to the anger and frustration of their new caretakers, many of these children have become domestic slaves or worse to “earn” their food and shelter. This will be an opportunity for them to add value to these families.
For their own use they will also receive a small box with a number of exciting trinkets that are a pure luxury; soap, pencils, stickers, toothbrushes, etc. We will post a list of the items for the boxes in the near future so that we can be praying over them specifically.
