PRAYER REQUESTS 🙏🏼

Thank you for all your prayers as it was much needed during this week. This week was really hard. The kids were not well behaved, didn’t pay attention during services, and disrespectful. You could feel the tension during the evening services- kids moving in their chairs and randomly standing up, getting up and using the restroom for long periods of time,

talking to their neighbors loudly as if there was no preacher preaching, etc etc. There was so much hesitation for kids to come forward during invitation. It was almost discouraging to me and the other staff members but God has a purpose for everything. Last week God taught us that there is a purpose for us here at camp and that there are children who are still responding to God’s Word. This week, however, God taught us so much more. He taught us to lean on Him in ALL that we do and think, to trust Him with everything, to be purposeful in our prayers, and to share our burdens with one another. Me and a few other girls had unintentionally started what we call our “Snack Devotion Club”. I say unintentionally because it started out as me and my friend wanting to eat snacks because we were hungry, then 3 more girls joining and then us deciding while we eat we should share what we learn in our personal devotions and share our burdens and pray for each other. Our snack devotion club takes place every night around 10:30 / 11 at the latest and can take as long as 2 hours. Tuesday night was a night where i could finally sit down with Anna (my prayer partner) and ask her how she felt about our new girls and how i could be praying for her. She started talking and eventually was in tears while she shared her burdens. We started with 7 girls in our cabin and over the course of the week 3 went home- I did my best to encourage her with God’s Word and to let her know that she shouldn’t doubt herself as a counselor but rather look to the Lord because His strength is made perfect in our weakness. She expressed to me the spiritual warfare that was happening this week. The devil was hard at work trying his best to distract our girls from fully hearing God’s Word. We discussed this and then prayed with purpose that the Lord would have the victory at the end of this week. The next night the girls during our devotion club brought up the same thing and instead of sharing our personal devotions we took time to pray for each girl in our cabins and for some special intense counseling situations that had come up during this week. Tonight during the bonfire testimony service we saw the answers to the very prayers we prayed not too long ago. So many souls saved and more decisions made. Just because we can’t see the fruit right away doesn’t mean that God isn’t at work. This week ended with a victory and with such encouragement to our souls. Please continue to pray as Jr Weeks are officially done that all the kids would keep pressing on with their decisions for Jesus. Teen Week is coming up and we are so excited to see what God does next. What we say here is that it isn’t week 3, it’s WEEK ONE!! Please pray also for our ministry team as we travel Sunday to some churches to sing and minister!