| Kids Speak Up |
August 2010This summer a young girl going into grade four captured all our hearts! This young girl is so inquisitive and full or wonder. She was always asking the leaders at our camp big questions about life and pointing our interesting things many of us would not have noticed. She has a sensitive heart and an original mind!
This young girl was also full of questions about God this past summer and really seemed to ‘get’ the message that our leaders were living out and saying about God. One day after a long talk full of many questions from our team leader she decided that she wanted to pray to Jesus and follow him. On the last day of camp we gave her a Bible and as she skipped away with her sisters she said, “Look at the Bible Book I got”, she then leaned over and told her sister “I’m gonna learn about God!” May God continue to speak to her sensitive heart as she explores her new faith in Jesus! May her enthusiasm for learning about Jesus continue to grow. We also pray that as leaders we would continue to pour into her and be a supportive community to her and her family! May 2010 |
Her two other sisters also came to camp, but this young girl refused to be ordinary. While her other sisters came to camp wearing pink and putting their hair up, she declared herself a tomboy and never gave into the status quo.
Meet Jedd. The boy who asked the presenter if it is true that when a black hole and a white hole converge they form a worm hole? Black holes, ok, but white holes I had never heard of, let alone worm holes, so I went straight to the source to ask what these things are.
This month, the kids have been very excited about the Olympics. Many of them have Olympic clothing and red is getting more and more popular everyday. They talk about Canada’s Hockey Teams and how they are doing and what they think the scores are going to be in the upcoming games. This topic also comes up a lot during prayer, with many of them praying for the Canadian and Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo to do well in the tournament.
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Ana-Camila, Grade 4 |
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Mayce, Grade 4 |
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October 2009
As we began another school year at Camp Peace, we wanted to get the kids’ input as to what they wanted Camp Peace to be about. The hope is, if kids take more ownership of the program, then they will feel a stronger connection with camp and want to keep coming back. We did this by having the kids fill out a survey listing their favorite and least favorite things about Camp Peace, along with things they would like to do, eat, play, etc. Here are some of the results:
Favorite thing about Camp Peace: It was unanimous – Play time - whether inside, outside or time to draw. - Something the kids don’t like about Camp Peace: Only that we don’t have any “Star Wars Lego”.
- Games kids want to play: Hockey, Battleship, tag and Transformers.
- Snacks they want to eat: Muffins, strawberry yogurt, and ice cream
- Something they would like to learn: How to make paper airplanes.
So the results are in and thankfully many of the kids interests match up to some exciting things we have planned. We think it is going to be a good year.
August 2009
During the course of the summer the kids learned about the life of Jesus. The first week started with his birth and life as a child, the lessons then moved into the many miracles Jesus performed, and in week five the focus was on his death and resurrection.
The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is a particularly heavy subject to discuss with children, some as young as five years old, but our interns rose to the challenge and provided a excellent program and taught them well.
One seven-year-old child, after learning that Jesus had been crucified, was sitting at a table during cooking class, not participating in the making of sugar cookies, but instead deep in her own thoughts.
A staff member saw her and asked her if she was okay. The young girl looked up with eyes wide open.
"Jesus survived!" she exclaimed as if she had just discovered the cure for cancer and didn't quite know how to react.
"Survived? What do you mean?" asked the staff, unaware of what the little girl had just learned.
"Jesus survived this!" responded the girl as she held up her arms in a fashion similar to a crucifix. She had heard something that she had never heard before and you could tell from her genuinely earnest expression that it was something that touched her heart.
UrbanPromise continues to be a place where kids can learn about Jesus, but does this information just go in one ear and out the other? It is stories like this that tell us that we are making a difference in these kids' lives.