It's been another very long time since I have been here but I have been gone for the past month serving at a Young Life camp and then on a family Vacation to New England. After receiving a letter while at camp encouraging me to make a blog post of this amazing experience I had, I have finally sat down to try and put together some sense in words of what I experienced during my time at Castaway. It started off with a road trip with one of my best friends for eleven hours to camp. Once at camp, there was an instant connection with everyone there for our session. I was assigned to serve on the Waterfront, and all of the Waterfront had to arrive at camp a few days early to go through some training. As I said, the connection was instant. There was no time to waste, we instantly divided into sharing life stories with one another, and we were able to see how God had worked through our lives to put us there and something just felt different, I simply cannot put into words. The only conclusion I have of this "feeling" is that the Holy Spirit had truly come down and had chosen to move in all of our hearts. We went through the first two and a half days of training before the rest of the Summer Staff arrived, and as they arrived we were anxious about the Community changing because in two days we had already seen how amazing things had become. Well after putting our anxiety down through prayer, the new community arrived creating a bigger and better community then we could have ever imagined. This all may seem like a blur but my mind is so ecstatic from even thinking about it, it seems to all be flooding out. The next three weeks consisted of this: Prayer, and lots of it, Service to Campers, Service to each other, watching campers lives change throughout the weeks, watching each others lives change, watching hearts change, a million laughs, a million smiles, tears shed. All of this is only a fraction of what I saw, I simply cannot describe the rest in words.
Coming away from camp, yeah I could say I've become more disciplined or heard some cool sermons and met some great people. BUT, the ONE thing that comes to my mind the most was I was able to see the Lord move and work in peoples hearts. That is truly indescribable. My hope and prayer is that whoever may read this, that they may see that, or continue to see it, or pray that their eyes may be opened to seeing this.
I'm sorry I cannot put to words everything that I experienced this month, but if there is one place in scripture that I think of when I remember my month, it is this, Acts 2:42-47.
