Wild West Adventure

Tomorrow is the first day of camp! We have been working hard to get everything ready. Our first American team consists of 3 people so it is going to be a crazy week. Every week a team from the U.S. will be coming to help with camp. They vary in number and this is the smallest team we will be working with. We have 80 kids coming this week-AH! At this point we are as ready as we will ever be. The theme for this summer is “Wild West” (in Romania?) so everything we will be doing correlates with that theme. We have western skits, western games (such as pin the tail on the HORSE) and western crafts. We’ve definitely had a few good laughs at the whole concept.

Another source of laughter has come from the ongoing battle with the Romanian language. Linguistics is NOT my forte…although sometimes I like to think I can speak Spanish. This is where the translators come in handy! Camp would be impossible without them. Most of them are high school students who have decided to volunteer with Livada. Additionally, most of them do not know the Lord. It’s a cool side ministry that Livada has developed. It is not uncommon for a translator to come to know the Lord as a result of translating the gospel. How awesome!

 All in all, the Romanian staff has done an incredible job planning the summer. In the past, the American branch of Livada’s staff has planned the camp curriculum. This is the first summer for everything to be placed in the hands of Livada’s Romanian partners.  

            Now that things are kicking into high gear I will probably only be able to post once or twice a week but I will do my best to keep my blog up to date with everything that is going on here!

In the meantime, I would really appreciate your support through prayer! It’s truly an incredible tool. Here are a few things to be praying for:

·      Please pray for our American team of 3-that they have the energy to pour out everything they have with the confidence that the Lord will sustain them.

·      The volunteer translators who do not know the Lord

·      That things would run smoothly at camp! It’s going to be a trial and error week

·      For patience and self control when things don’t go the way I planned-It’s inevitable :)

·      Pray for the kids who are coming to camp this week. Pray that they hear the gospel with a receptive heart. Without going into specifics, this particular group of kids has been through a lot in the past year.