Love in Action is what everyone experienced this year at camp!
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| Journey into the Process |
- Preparations and actions for camp started months before with prayer and planning.
- Verbo Family Services held a garage sale, and Patty Cardona was able to order the CEF program "Diving Into God's Love" (the theme of this year's camp) with the proceeds.
- Then more action happened with appeals for funds and supplies. Letters went out to local businesses, and Trader Joe's and Chik Fil A both responded.
- Patty made repeated church calls for people to give up vacation time to serve at camp. These appeals produced twenty new young adult workers. Besides that two nurses from different hospitals came to teach Bible lessons.
- Patty's daughter, Fabby, created files of jobs for the 20 young adult leaders, and did training for them.
- As usual, former campers wanted to serve. Fifty came this year!
- Love in action included craft materials from another church as well as all decorations being donated.
- Patty Cardona's teaching on Hudson Taylor, miissionary to China, included visuals of scripture booklets on the table. Patty shared that Hudson Taylor always gave people scriptures wherever he went.
- Love in community action included churches again providing backpacks for each child, filled and lovingly packed by volunteers with the best school supplies. These were given when parents and campers returned for the Sunday church service.
- There is no doubt that seeds of love and truth were deeply planted to grow in these 110 children. They will never forget camp and what they felt and received all week long.
Patty Cardona states, "God always remembers us." Elaine Biser, board secretary, said, "It is important to remember what God has done over these 20 years. He has been faithful to provide."
All of us are aware that this is God's work, and He is sustaining and expanding it as He wants in response to your heartfelt prayers.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Joyce Dueker
Founder of Project Lost Sheep
