The taste of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, the first ride on the Blizzard at Great Escape, the first strewn together 'wish boat' that you're praying wont sink, the sound of kids screaming cheers at the top of their lungs...

We made it out of a session 1 alive and the kids had an awesome week. The barn staff and I braved the first small animal fashion show of the summer-and of our lives! I was surprised by the attendance of boys at the fashion show, especially the 14 year old guys from Josh's Eagle cabin. The kids drew the name of an animal to dress up and then they were given material to colour and decorate. We used hair clips to adorn the animals with their outfits. I would be lying if I said that all that animals appreciated this as much as the kids did. Zoey the large grey rex rabbit kept pulling off her cape, and so her modeling career was put to a quick end as I escorted her back to her cage. The guinea pigs could care less as they were wrapped in bright pink tube dresses and bandannas. Overall, the fashion show was pretty successful and at the end of 'free choice' the kids got to clip the outfits they made on their animal's cage. Next session, we'll do the fashion show again along with a birthday party. We'll see how it all goes!

Josh and I are adjusting to the run around lifestyle of camp, although we can't help but plan as much as we can for what is coming next for us in the fall.

God continues to be so incredibly good. Any temporary fun that we can create at camp is absolutely tiny compared to His love that is eternal and His longing for His children to come to Him and spend eternity with Him. We can do everything possible to make a child’s life more enjoyable by challenging them with new experiences, helping to instill confidence and independence, and giving them love but we cannot give children the perfect love, joy and peace that God gives, and that their heart so aches for. God has given us all the authority and free reign to be the hands and feet of Jesus in this world to go to the hurting, the weak and the forgotten proclaiming that God loves them and is not angry with them. He has given us His spirit to be able to speak words of life to the spiritually dead. Therefore, we serve with our motivation and every intention devoted to the proclamation of the gospel and our actions being an expression of God’s uncontainable love. It is our nature.                                                                                                         

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