Camp # 2

Wow, there is so much to say. Its been a little bit since my last update and its because so much has happened I don't know where to start. So to start, we started training at Malenovice on Wednesday the 14th. The training was with Josiah Ventures. There were around 220 Americans at training that were being sent out the next week to do camps, which was a record for them. There were so many people. Training is pretty good. it was all prep for camp, taught us camp songs, about the Czech culture and history, what discusion groups should look like, but the best part for me was connection with my team. I met up with the Crossway Chapel team which was a mixture of Crossway Chapel Willmington, Mountain View, The Crossing, a girl from California, and me from Windsor. On my team we had Eddie (Wilmington), Crystal (Wilmington), R-Bo (Mountain View), Jesse (Mountain View), Krista (Mountain View), and Laura (the Crossing). It was really interesting to see the dinamics of the team. I had met R-Bo before but didn't really know him and had never met any of the others and it was the same for the rest of the team, even with the two from Wilmington. Friday, we went to camp at Ostravice, which was the same place I did the first camp. There we met up with the Czech team that consisted of I think 8 Czech's and Brad who is from the US but has been in Czech for around 5 years now. He works for Josiah Ventures but is the youth leader at the church Mayak (lighthouse) which is who the camp was with. Then there were two more Americans from Wisconsin that met up with us to help teach English. We had a group of leaders from all over. It was amazing to see how we all connected and were able to work together. I'll talk a little more about this later.

So a little about this camp. This camp was with the Church Mayak in Vsetin who I have and will be serving with for the next few months. It was an English and Sports Camp. There were around 40 kids from the age 13 to 17. The structure of the camp looked something like this:

7:30 Devotional - for leaders but students could come if they wanted

8:15 Breakfast

9:15 Morning program

9:30 Went to either our sports or english class

12:30 Lunch

1:00 Quiet time

2:00 free time

3:30 afternoon games

6:00 dinner

7:00 Night program

8:30 discussion groups

9:15(30) night games

11:00 lights out

to be cont...