God Gets The Glory

Group picture outside of the church building

This week John and I are at a camp that is based out of a church instead of the other camp across town which is in a public school (School 45). We have about fifty students who are from various villages who have come together this week.

The camp was originally going to be in one of the public schools here (School 33) but right before the camp was to start the school decided they did not want to hold the camp any longer. This presented a little predicament but the final decision was to hold the camp at the church we are working with. There is not much space here for a camp with fifty students and fifteen helpers but it was either have a tight squeeze or cancel the camp. The obvious choice was to have a tight squeeze. This choice has given me a few things to think about the past few days.

What a great opportunity for God to get the glory. It has helped me to rethink and fix my “idea” of what makes a Bible camp so great. Here is this little Lutheran church where there is a small sanctuary and four rooms which we are using for four classrooms, the lunch room, crafts and meeting room. It is quite the run around when trying to switch between sessions. Plus many of the students at this camp are staying at the church in the same areas during this week of camp. One great thing is that this really seems to be no burden to any of us or the Russian workers and that is because there are kids here who are hearing about Jesus and teachers who are relaying the message of hope to children who have never heard about such a thing in this hopeless nation. It would be nice if we had lots of space and one room for each activity and classroom but it’s not necessary. What is important is that the children hear the message of hope!

“But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.” 1 Corinthians 1:27-29