Shiloh

This is Camp Shiloh. On Friday morning I will be leaving Florence and heading to New York to the Catskills Mountains, to Shiloh. I am so excited but a little bit nervous at the same time. I have been so frantically trying to get my quizzes done for school that I haven't had much time to realize how close this trip is! Now that it is only two days away I better start getting ready for it. Not that I haven't done anything to prepare, I made out the itenerary for the trip and prepared the finance sheet for our time in the city. Of course, I have been praying as well, for our group and for the kids we will be in contact with. Shiloh is a camp for the inner city children from the Bronx. They are bussed into the camp and our job is to have fun with them and give them lots of attention. They eat it up too! They hang all over you and want to braid your hair and tell you all kinds of stories and then they cry when you have to leave. Of course, we cry too. Those children are precious and in the time they spend at this camp they experience so many wonderful things that they never get to otherwise. Not just fun activities and camping, they get to experience God and God's love. It is so awesome to me that we get to be the ones to show God's love to these kids. Of course, we get to show God's love every day but in this case they may not ever see it otherwise. When I went to Shiloh in 2001 the theme was "More Than Conquerors."
It came from the verse in Romans that says "In all things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." -8:37 It's true you know, especially for those children. I look forward to updating about this when I get back next Sunday! Please keep us in your prayers!