trip

I am enjoying my time on this trip so much! When I get back, I'll have lots of pictures to post, but I won't put all two hundred of them on my blog. I'll have lots of stories to tell, as well, so stay tuned. :)

camp... again

I had a wonderful two weeks at camp, and I'd like to share some highlights with you. See my last post to find out more details about the camp and the leadership program in which I participated.

Here are some excerpts from my journal:

I am absolutely thrilled to be here. God is ministering to my heart as I minister to others. It is such a privilege to be a CILT, and I am trying to make the most of it by being the love of Christ to those around me. God is bringing ministry opportunities to me, just as much as I can handle. It is so exciting to be able to make little differences in people's lives.

"Rejoice in the Lord always... the Lord is near." I want my attitude to be one of wonder-- at who God is, at what He has planned for me, at what He has created, and at how much He gives me that I do not deserve. I want to appreciate every moment in its full potential, and to see God's hand at work in the smallest details. What could be better than that?

l-r: Kayla, Lily, Bryant, me, and JoHannah


















All the girls in my cabin
























Oh... camp photos! Why are they always so goofy?


















The graduates!


















me, Johannah, and Kayla


















All the staff have "bird names." Now that I am a new staff member, my name is "Kestrel" at camp.

The lovely quilt from camp t-shirts that my mother made as a graduation gift for me.

My mother and I together at staff Bible study, for the first time!

camp

I'd like to share with you about some of the exciting things that will be happening for me very soon. Next Sunday I am leaving for camp for two weeks. I attend NeKaMo Camp Cherith, an interdenominational girls' camp in Warsaw, Missouri. This summer at camp is going to be very special, because I am graduating from a two-year camper-in-leadership-training (CILT) program. It is a course that my mother and aunt also graduated from, over 30 years ago.
The past two years in the program have been wonderful, because I have learned to work with kids, speak in front of groups, lead songs and games, teach Bible studies, and much more. God has opened new doors and taught me so many new things through CILT, and I can't wait to find out what He has planned for me in the future. At the end of the two weeks, I will be a full-fledged staff member. That is an amazing thought, because it doesn't seem that long ago that I was 11 years old and spending my first week at camp.:) Will you keep me in your prayers as I prepare this week and during the next two weeks while I am there? I am greatly looking forward to how God will work in my life and and in the lives of others.

Guess what???

I got my drivers license today!

Happy happy!!!

Thirst

O God, You are my God,
earnestly I seek You;

my soul thirsts for You,

my body longs for You,

in a dry and weary land

where there is no water.

Psalm 63:1

Thy Melody

Tune Thou my harp;
There is not, Lord, could never be
The skill in me.

Tune Thou my harp,
That it may play Thy melody,
Thy harmony.

Tune Thou my harp;
O Spirit, breathe Thy thought through me,
As pleaseth Thee.

by Amy Carmichael

link where I found this poem

spiritual gifts

"For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."

Romans 12:3-8

This a pasage that I am memorizing right now.