Sorry for now just getting back to blogging, it has been a crazy week with camp and training earlier on in the week. Camp started Tuesday morning, we didn't know what to expect going in, but it was great things worked out amazing. The Children had a few sports to pick from, baseball, football(soccer), Volleyball, and Ultimate Frisbee. Me and Vience did baseball of course. It was really great to work with some of the children and to grown in relationships with them, the language really didn't get in the way to much at all, they could understand what you meant you just had to be very visual with them and exaggerate with them. It was great to teach them the basics of baseball, very few had really played before but some had, and those who hadn't picked up really fast. The goal was to share Christ with them, and through out the week we did, through our actions, and sharing with them. There were a few boys that really stood out to me that I really grew attached too and held a good relationship with them, Andreaes , Marano, and two twins names Jack and Nick.
Andreaes was very smart and had played some baseball, of course his favorite team was the Braves, but over here they don't get to watch a lot of baseball on TV so he doesn't know a whole lot about them. The most important thing was to be an example of Christ and to show love for them all, over the course of the week you could tell that a change was starting it was amazing! Through out the week camp went great and on the last day we had the Torre Pellice Olympics it was really neat, we had an opening ceremony and everything lol. We had two different rounds of stations. The first round included the Gospel station where two interns shared a Bible story with the Children and the second round we had a reflection station from the story. We used David and Goliath, it was really cool to see the children hold on to the story and really get an understanding for you because we found out yesterday that only 4 our of the almost 50 campers went to church. They really understood the trust that David had in God, and how we have to do the same,some of their responses really blew me away, one of the questions we asked was what are some areas in your life that you need to trust God more in? The flood gates opened! They were talking about family problems, how they needed to love God more, how they need to trust in God to help them get out watching TV all the time and playing video games. We have made an IMPACT in these children s life, I dont care if they didn't like the sports or weren't good in them, because they got what they really needed and that was the Gospel!
We are staring to slowly find out where we will be splitting up at after the Ukraine. I will be going to Hungary to do baseball camps with Vince, yes we will be the only two from our team, which will be a challenge but its one that God has called me to do and I trust in him. I have no idea what to expect when we get there really nothing...
Its going to be a bust week here for us. We have to get back to the training and I think its about to go up another level on us, more physical and more demanding, but its great if we really hold on to this stuff and run with it and understand it, it will be life changing and something we can use for the rest of our lives. We had a special quest this week from South Africa he is head of the International Sport Ministry Coalition. The training that we are doing is what he and other people made up. He was an amazing man of God and a great speaker. Well I must go we are about to head to church in Torre Pelliec somewhere lol :-) have a great day! And Happy Fathers Day back in the States! Love you dad
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