Monday at the Teen Camp

Monday: The skies are mirroring our hearts…Undecided, Restless. Casting down pools of sunshine one minute and then spattering the earth with giant drops of rain. We are nervous and excited all at once. We have survived a turbulent flight over hundreds of miles of wilderness in a small plane. After three windy ,bumpy hours in a boat with ill-fitting life vests we face the fact that our last cup of starbucks is a shadow of the past. We will have to get creative with the Swiss Miss and Folgers.
Preparing our hearts and minds during the orientation with preaching and corporate prayer we are marinating ourselves in 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 “For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”
Roger Huntington, the camp director, reminds us in his thundering voice “It is our job to be ambassadors for Christ. We may not be able to save these youth, but, by God’s grace, may we at least lead them to the threshold.” Due to the inclement weather, the kids have been coming in small groups all day. Some faces are new but by the end of the week they will be graven on our hearts for years to come. We greet the returning campers unabashedly with running and screaming and forget all our aforementioned discomforts as their faces light up to see us. It is our fervent prayer that they will know the eternal Light by the end of this week.