Rachel's Reflections

Finally, sitting comfortably at my home in Michigan, I can reflect on how the last week of camp went. It was a good week with a great group of girls grades 3-5. The only difference this time was the amount of girls we had each day. Sunday afternoon-Tuesday morning was consistent, then we gained a new day camper, and later in the evening we gained a 7 year old girl from a different cabin (our youngest) and our third counselor, who had been home for a funeral. The following morning we gained another day camper, but later a different camper got picked up because of home sickness. On Thursday morning two of our day campers didn't show up and at night one of our girls threw up and spent the rest of the night in the health center and didn't join us on Friday until after all of our day campers had come back and joined us. It was somewhat confusing having a different number of campers every day, especially whenever we would leave a location. I would do the usual head count to make sure...

I started the week with 20 lively girls and 3 awesome co-counselors. I started connecting immediately with most of the girls and Monday afternoon had a great conversation with two of the girls about God, living life for Him, things we are looking forward to about heaven, how to share our faith with others, and other things. One of them thanked me repeatedly and said God must have set that conversation up because she really needed it. The other one mostly just listened and I could tell she was processing everything the other girl and I said. Later that night after the gospel presentation she went forward to say she had just trusted in Christ as her Savior along with 7 of our other girls!!! Our God is awesome! :)  Tuesday morning we started going about our regular activities, but then I was told by my Unit Leader, Emily, that I was being switched to a different cabin because one of the counselors was in the hospital. My heart sank a little bit because I had connected so well with m...

The two that didn't get along well last week were both going to be here again this week and I knew that they had not resolved the conflict between themselves and I wanted them to, so last Saturday night while I was praying I asked God to give me two girls from last week to me again this week, even though that basically never happens and I knew it would be very challenging for me. Sunday afternoon I was called up to get my first camper and guess who it was? Yes, one of the two from last week! I was super excited and told one of my counselors that I had asked God for her again. The other girl was a day camper, so we didn't find out until later that night during roll call that she was also going to be in our group. I grinned and looked at the other girl, who looked back at me with horror on her face and shook her head no. Monday they were actually good with each other, but by Wednesday they were having issues again. I kept talking to them individually throughout the week, but Frid...