Camp Starts Today!!!

the morning workout

standing at attention

julia and nadia singing in worship

so cute

Oksana transforming the camp!!!

the team...well, part of the team

Welcome all children and volunteers! With the children arriving later on today our camp has officially started! Thankfully many of our volunteers have arrived over the past couple days and have been preparing for the part they will have in this camp. We are so thankful for God's provisions for our camps in sending us, finances, food and also special volunteers to minister to the children. Tapio, Matti, Tuulia, Dima and Oksana have all been very busy in getting rooms ready for the children, assigning the children to rooms and also letting the group leaders know who will be in their group. Different leaders and volunteers have been assigned different tasks and areas they will serve in. I realize now how thankful I am that God has made each of us with different personalities and gifts, Lord knows I could not lead in crafts even if I wanted to. But He has sent each one of us with a specific purpose in mind. Yesterday the whole camp was transformed from a Finnish camp to a Russian camp! Our wonderful friends from Estonia worked very hard in helping us translate every single sign into a language the children could read and understand. We were busy all day in making preparations....even preparing the sauna! We had to make sure it worked right? Last night we had more families and volunteers join our team and start helping. We had two very special families come to help. They are foster families, both from Russia, who have come to be group leaders and helpers in the camp. I believe this is a blessing from the Lord, He has sent people who are very close to the situation of the children that will be coming, someone who has seen their side of the world and understands their situation. They have been an example to me of what the Lord's heart is. Please continue to pray for our health and that we would have strength from the Lord. But most of all, for the hearts of the children, the whole reason we do this camp is so they may see how much God loves them and wants to be a part of their lives! Pictures should be up soon, but please be patient, our internet system is under a bit of work! Blessings to you all!