Camp Barnabas

Sunday morning, bright and early...and I mean EARLY, we are leaving out (at 5:30 in the AM) for Camp Barnabas!!! Huzzah! Ashley, Naomi, Iain, Jonathan P., Jonathan H., Brian and I are going to Missouri to hang out with children with special needs. They may be physically or mentally handicapped or both. Camp Barnabas provides for them a fun summer camp experience just like any other. Kids with disabilities are generally the ones on the side lines watching everyone else. Everything at Camp Barnabas has been adapted so that they too can experience summer camp fun. Swimming, ropes course, horse back riding...these are just a few of the fun things we will do at camp. It is a Christ centered camp and organization. Every night we have a different themed party and will dress up and have some fun! We are each placed with one child for the whole week. We get to love on, bond with and devote everything to that one child:)

Please be in prayer for the campers, that they will see Christ in each of the staff members and volunteers and that they will have a memorable and fun week that will effect their lives for the better.

Please also pray for the staff and volunteers. Specifically for our group, as the nerves are riding high right now. Pray that the Lord will meet us at every challenge and that we would be willing and able to do whatever is demanded of us, even if it's hard and we don't feel that we can. This will be a very demanding, challenging and maybe even a little bit stressful week and we will have to rely on God. Pray that we will trust Him and not only make it through, have some fun along the way! Pray for our attitudes and our health. Me specifically, I get head aches quite frequently and sometimes they get really bad. I do not want them to get in the way of what I am doing. I want to be able to give my camper 101% 23 hours of the day (we get an hour a day to ourselves and of course we do get to sleep as well.) Lastly pray for us, that we would take something away from the week, that God would not only meet our physical needs, but also spiritual. Pray that we will build friendships, learn and grow.

Thank you!