Camp...

This is from an email that I sent out a week or so ago...

Wow! It's hard to believe that I'm starting Week 10 here in Clovis this week! That means that in one week, I'll be on my way back to Texas! Craziness!! Anyway, I just wanted to send out a quick email and update you guys a little on what's been going on out here in the great state of California!

I've been at Camp for the last two weeks, the first week with Junior Highers and this past week with High Schoolers. We went to Centrifuge (a youth camp put on by LifeWay) up at Jenness Park, which is where we also had Summer Missionary Orientation. It's a beautiful place in the middle of mountains (I think the elevation is like 4000 feet or something but it might be more...). Junior High camp was a lot of fun and God moved in amazing ways. We talked about God with the abandoned, the poor, the sick, and the oppressed. It floored me how much some of our junior highers are going through and the family situations they come from. As we talked about God with the abandoned, some of their stories of times in their lives when they felt abandoned were so overwhelming. Wow. It was amazing to see God work in their lives and free them from some of the chains that have been holding them down for way too long. God definitely did a work in my heart as well as I experienced freedom in some areas of my life that have been holding me back for a while now. It was super sweet! :)

High school camp was amazing as well. It was good to reconnect with some of the kids that I met @ World Changers and hang out with them again. God did some amazing things in their lives, including calling one of my girls to missions and another one rededicated her life to Christ. It was simply incredible. Emerald, the girl that was called to missions, is such an amazing young lady. She just graduated from high school and will be attending a community college in Fresno in the fall. She was in my room @ World Changers and we really connected there and I've been praying all summer that she would accept the call that God has put on her life because I could tell God was working on her at World Changers. :) It was a great week and Clovis Hills has some amazing kids in their youth group, some of 'em have pretty rough backgrounds, but they are amazing nonetheless. :) I miss 'em already and I'm not even gone yet!

Anyway, needless to say, Camp was a great experience and I'm kinda sad it's over. God did some amazing things in my life as well as the life of our students! I am glad to be sleeping in "my own bed" again and without 20 girls in the room (peace and quiet is so nice!), but I kinda miss it already. :)


I'm sorry that I've been lazy in updating this the last few weeks. It seems like I've either been really busy or really tired. See all of you soon!

Kimberly