The "Green-Shirted Pale-faces"

Claire's update - camp!

Hey Everyone! It’s Claire, from Team A. We just finished our last official day of camp in Chigu. It’s been a long, tiring, and challenging but fun week.

Each of our groups has been different, but I think that Andrew’s has been the most challenging. He has a group of crazy and hyper boys (as well as a few quiet girls) that runs around all day and rarely sits still. Andrew and his co-workers have been challenged the entire week just trying to get through the English lessons. Maybe I can get Andrew to write more about his group later.

Everyone else’s group seems pretty good in general. I know that my group is very well behaved except for 2 boys that decided that they don’t want to participate or do anything we ask them to do. They’ve pretty much run wild the past 2 days because we had problems controlling them.

Our days here have been much like how Joe described in his update. All VGM camps are all run generally the same way, so not much differs in regard to activities and such. The things that vary are the people and the kids that we work with. Our days are usually long and hot, spent running around with kids, playing games, and teaching English lessons. Our evenings include worship, meetings, eating, and talking on the rubber track outside. =)

Please pray for us tomorrow (Saturday) because we have our gospel meeting. The spiritual situation here is fairly delicate. Last year, the team that held the camp at this school was very bold in sharing their faith, and it caused some problems in the community. It was only by God’s grace that VGM was allowed to return. Consequently, we have had to be very cautious in talking with the kids this week. For our gospel meeting, we sent home today a permission slip for the kids, informing the parents that the gospel will be presented here tomorrow. The parents have to sign the slip for the kids to come tomorrow. We’ll see how many show up! We are praying that God will touch their lives and that they will be forever changed.

Thank you once again for all your prayers. They make a big difference!