She wrote Him in a letter,
and it started with Dear God,
her searching words, they filled the page,
as her humbled heart He saw.
She told Him how she was feeling,
what she really wanted most,
that she longed to be His child
how she desired Him to be close.
That very night, under the stars
perched right outside the cabin,
I was sitting with this little girl
and saw something special happen.
We prayed for her, and her open heart
to be filled with the Holy Spirit,
to see the smile on her face when she opened her eyes,
we could tell, this girl means it!
I wrote this my first week of counselling, for a little girl that really snagged my heart. She was so curious and inquisitive, and by the second day of camp, she was asking about her salvation. On Thursday, in veg, as Katie and I slept, she wrote a note, but it wasn't for one of the other girls in the cabin. It was a note to God! She showed me this when I woke up, and I was just taken with her sincerity! That night, on the porch of Cabin C, me and Katie prayed with her, and I will never, ever forget her smile when we said "Amen!" It's such an amazing thing to be part of the biggest decision someone will ever make, and man do I feel blessed!
Camp is filled of those little God moments... it's in the way that this girl went on to tell Lindsey excitedly that she was a Christian. It was in the way that while I stood with Lindsey as we played a game, one little boy ran up to her and told her, "I'm your brother now! I'm a christian!" with so much enthusiasm. It's in the way I would sit at the beach and build sandcastles and have a girl tell me her life story and how God had become the most important thing to her. I remember the last day of camp, not an hour before they'd be going home, me and Katie had two campers run up to us and saying "We want to be christians! Will you pray with us?!"
I remember the junior high camp... thinking "God, really? Me? Junior highs? What can I offer them?!" I remember looking at Lindsey in terror as the first girls stepped into our cabin. I remember the night that me and Lindsey shared our testimonies, looking around at the seven girls as tears poured down their faces. I remember my fear to share the hardest part of mine, and how I almost didn't share it at all - and then God whispered "Share it" and I did... I remember that very part of my testimony leading to me sitting outside at 1 in the morning with a girl who was looking for a reason other than "God says so"... and her looking me in the eye and telling her that my story gave her that reason. God is so incredible like that, taking even the most broken part of myself and allowing me to be vulnerable and open and using it to speak to someone else... I know Lindsey experienced that too as she spent the night with those 6 other girls in the cabin. God was so at work with those girls, they wanted to hold each other and wipe each others tears and pray for each other!
Camp is such an important ministry! When I went, I had no idea the amazing things God was going to show me, but I tell you, there's something beautiful happening at bible camps this summer... something beautiful about God taking imperfect people and teaching through them... something beautiful about young hearts fiercely loving and desiring Jesus!
God, I love you. SO SO much.
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