I've spent a week here at Camp Lurecrest and it feels like I've been here my whole life. The first couple of days were a little rough emotionally, and I should probably explain why. I have always been shy when meeting new people or when I'm put in a new situation, and sometimes it can take a little while for me to get my bearings and really get settled in to interacting with people as if I've known them forever. I think that's probably pretty normal in most situations. So the first two days I was still getting to know the camp and everyone was still getting to know me and it was a little weird, to be honest. But I'm now at day four and things are feeling better. Give me another week and I bet you it'll be like I've always been here.
We had New Venture camp this week for a group of kids from the foster care system in Charlotte. As part of the camp's support staff, I'm assigned to a cabin that I'll eat meals with, sit with in chapel, and have nightly devotions with throughout the summer. So I got to spend a good amount of time with some of the campers. We had some of the sweetest, most obedient girls in our cabin this week, and several of them had such a desire to know that they were loved. One girl asked over and over if we could get her a Bible. Sarah was able to find a few of them that she left with the cabin, and the girls who took them never stopped reading them. They asked us all kinds of questions during the nightly devotions. Some of them surface, some of them heartbreaking. We only had a week with them, and not even a full week at that, so it was sad to see them leave this morning, knowing what kind of situation they're probably going back to, and unsure if I've done everything I could or said everything I was supposed to say.
I have so many more things I could say, but dinner is in ten minutes, so I'll have to save it for another time. Praising God for this week!
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