New Christian Camp

This passed week-end we had a New Christian camp in an effort to remain connected to those readers that have become Christian (and so do not study with us any more) and to continue to grow their relationship with God. All in all, I'd have to say it was a fantastic week-end!

We drove 4 hours out of Bangkok to the South to a beach. He had to hike all our things and food and camping gear for the week-end over a mountain to get to the area of the beach we were to camp at (a great way to start the week-end).

The week-end was filled with devotionals, small group times, meals cooked over the fire, hiking, swimming, sleeping (ok, so not so much filled with that), team-building activities, prayer, and talking.

The theme of the camp was "freedon in Christ" and all week-end long we talked about being slaves to sin, becoming free from sin, and how Christ takes our sins away. I have to admit it was as much of a growing experience for me as it was for most of the campers. I definitely felt stretched by God. As a group leader I knew that those in my group would only open up and share as much as I did, so I really had to put myself out there and share many things and be very personal (much more so than I am generally wont to do). It was such an amazing experience not only to get to watch God at work, but also to get to help with it (I suppose that might be considered what being a missionary is all about).