Wednesday, July 4, 2007

We got here and had our first day of camp

Well, we got here without too much trouble! We flew to Cincinnati then to Frankfurt, Germany and then to Chisinau, Moldova. We spent the night in a very nice hotel with air conditioning, which was pleasant surprise! We got to spend a great time with the Falesti team at the hotel. Then after the Falesti team went to Falesti, we went to Interntat 2 to visit that team for a bit before heading out to Cahul. We had a blast on the 2 hour drive there. Again, the hotel Azalia in Cahul is not too bad and we have A/C...YAY! we met our translators and they are awesome, fun people that love God and children so they have been such a blessing to us! Then we went to visit where we will have camp. Everything was great and we met with our teams to teach the lessons and such. Also, we prepared for all that we could! oh yeah...we were told that 50 kids came that morning for camp b/c they heard we were going to be there today! we were sooooooo excited! God truly has come before us and prepared the way! We went out into the neighborhoods with our translators to give children our flyers about the camp. It was so fun to find the children and give them the notice about our being there.Finally,we went back to the hotel and said goodbye to our translators, and ate and met together to have a devotional and pray about the next day!

Well, we get to the camp this morning and we see some 60 kids waiting for us! we were soooo pumped! Not only 6, 7,8 year olds, but 15, 16, 17 year olds...it was so great to see the wide variety of ages who have come to have a blast and give us the opportunity to share Christ with them! God is so faithful!
Everything went so well and we ended up having some 85 kids! God truly made the bread for our lunch sandwiches multiply b/c we were not prepared for that many kids! It was awesome! We changed some stuff to adapt for the children and for some things that fell through, but it all went great and everyone had sooo much fun! our translators were AMAZING even when we had a good many Russian-speaking children and they only knew some Russian....they were flexible and made it all work! God truly helped us all to use our gifts to keep the kids with us throughout the day. It was so great! We all had a blast!
Now this is what we need from ya'll:

pray for the children: that they would be open to the Gospel
Pray for us:
flexibility that we adapt our schedule and prepare for an increasing amount of children each day!
multiplication of supplies; God's going to have to show up here, and we truly expect him to do so!

Thanks for all your prayers as we are on this trip! We love ya'll so much!

5 comments:

Gary said...

Sam, Thanks so much for the great report on God's faithfulness. Gary and Charleen

Gary & A. B. said...

Great news! Thank you for what you are doing and we know God will provide the needed supplies. God is Good - All the Time! ( Hi, Lindsay - we love you.)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the report. Wish I was there! We are praying for you all.

Ben & Charlotte

leahtodd said...

sam! i am so excited for you guys, and it is so great to see God's work! you will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers!

Anonymous said...

Good words.