southern camp

11 pm, I am sitting in the dark - it has been at least five hours that the electricity has been off... I get a phone call "we are on the way to pick you up we have 10 kids to be baptized"... Four of the kids have been "regulars" at the youth center, two are from the "mission trip" recipients last week and the other four are from area churches! The picture is the first of the 10 being baptized in the ocean... you can see the remainder waiting their turn. WOW, what a way to end the day. Tomorrow is their final day.

2nd week of camp

WOW! 54 kids have arrived for camp in Digos city. You should see the LARGE bag of cell phones, mp3 players collected for the week! I will post pictures in a day or two.

Mission trip "camp"

For our Mission trip, we had chosen a local children's home to work with. They have an outreach in two of the poorer communities around Digos. They ask us to do a two day camp for the kids in one of the two communities. More than 50 kids have registered! It is going well. Tonight there is to be a community evangelistic meeting as the "closing Program". I am posting one of the pictures of one class - the kids were eager to participate and the teachers did a good job of having interactive teaching.

Mission trip

I have labled it Mission trip because that is what we have started today, but I want to share about camp that finished last week, too... We had 40 + campers and on Friday, 10 made decisions to follow Christ and be baptized.

I am including pictures of the "mission group" eating breakfast, then "on the job" with the task of clean up they are tackling today. This is a beach area of Digos that the muslims have settled. We are working with a mission that has been working in the area for several years. With their direction, we hope to be able to give them some encouragement and challenge the residents in a new way. Pray for responses, as we are going to be doing some teaching on Wed. and Thursday.

camp

We are all packing for camp. Our first it in Northern Mindanao - it is the 11th year for it! We have lots of volunteers that we hope will be taking over most of the responsibilities next year. Pray that they see the vision and the reasons for doing each and every activity and requirement.

The new youth center is continuing to progress. Rodger plans to leave camp early to continue work on it.