Compassion Hits Home

We had a great opportunity at staff camp to get to know James, a young man from Kenya who is here in the States for the summer working with Student Life. He was a Compassion sponsored child for 16 years. When he returns, he will pursue a life in accounting. Most of all, James now has the opportunity to spread the love of Christ that he first received through that wonderful ministry. Here is our group with James.



It was a pleasure getting to know him. Also, below is a picture of our group with the whole Student Life staff. Several of our students have expressed interest in working with them one summer once they are in college. I couldn't be more proud. They have a wonderful camp ministry.

Staff Camp 2009- Rec Game Leaders!

I thought I would take an opportunity to show the recreation portion of our jobs. Here's a glimpse of everyone leading their game. I was leading a game, too, so it was difficult to get pictures.





















Last night we had a good time to just get together and delve deeper into our spiritual motivations of being here. Whether or not we were gospel-centered or us-centered.
Tonight, we will have a time to play some games and enjoy each others company. I'll try to put some more pictures of various things later, including some of the staff versus adult leaders dodge ball game. We return tomorrow!

Sleep was needed so mid-day blog comming!

Staff Camp 2009- Day 2

Here's one of the main problems with blogging at this camp- everyone is too busy to take pictures!
On Sunday the kids arrived, so the early part of the day was preparing for registration. We started off with meeting with the Student Life staff and having prayer time with them. Then everyone got to help prepare for the family group time. After brunch, a sack lunch at 10:30, everyone split up for their registration duties. Sorry, Chad, no local church.

Registration:
Greeters- Maddy and Kelsey
Parking- Collin and Marquin
Office Runner- Rod
T-Shirt check in- Ryan, Lindsay, Caylee and Doug
I helped check in children's ministers.

We also got to perform our worship service tasks twice!
Production team- Kelsey, Caylee and Maddy
Cameras- Rod, Lindsay and Marquin
Products- Collin, Doug, Ryan and Me

So, that was about it. Lots of work. Recreation starts today! I'll have everyone describe their games later.

Oh no, it's raining!

Staff Camp 2009- Day 1

Well, we arrived on time this morning ready to go! We helped with load-in, which we had never done before. It made for a long day. But the hardest work is out of the way! The kids come tomorrow so it makes it tons more fun. Here are some load-in pictures.


The Stage


T-shirt boxes. We moved a lot of them.
And we moved them a lot.


Maddy and Ryan organized.


Marquin is a great worker. But here he's texting.


Look at those girls go!


This is Doug's normal posture at camp. We have to work on that.


Eagerly waiting to work...


Setting up merchandise...


Those Delks! Lindsay threw something at me for taking a picture. I braved it out and got the action on film!


Our Compassion hut that we built with James, a former Compassion child who was sponsored for 16 years in Kenya who is here to work for the summer with Student Life to share about Compassion!


We had to fasten all the chairs in the building together with plastic zip ties.

After our fun filled day, we got our stuff in the room and took off for dinner, Wal-Mart and a fireworks show!


Dinner at Chili's.


Fireworks in Denison. We weren't sure we were going to some place legit. Brother Scott's sister Tammy led us in the right direction though. Once it started, I tried to get some pictures with the "fireworks" feature on the camera. This is the best one.



Love everyone and hope you have a good night! Pray that we are truly ambassadors of the gospel this week!

Until tomorrow...

We finished with load in finally! About to head to dinner, walmart and hopefully find some fireworks

Staff camp 2009- we're here and working!!!