It's gonna be a bumpy ride...

Set up week was crazy! We literally worked all day to set up for camp and it's truly a blessing we had Megan (our volunteer/also a summer staffer) to help us set up. She is a saint. And I'm so glad she is here.

Youth groups came on Sunday. Yay youth groups! We had 4 in total and they are all so wonderful. These kids are so kind and happy and make my job a whole lot easier. While it was super crazy and we forgot a lot of things everyone was in their beds at 11 and all were happy. Of course us red shirts had to get some other stuff done so we stayed up a little later and ate our ice cream. :)

Today was fairly smooth sailing (except for burning 10 pounds of noodles) until about 6:30 when this random person walked in the building. Turns out she was just a troubled teen looking for someone to have a conversation with and a little girl on a bike in the neighborhood told her "You should go to the church over there. I think there's people inside and the door is unlocked." A- How in the world does this little girl know that? And B- Whoa.

As straining as it was to have this girl with us, she was called to be here. God told her to. And the person who was called to talk to get was Caitlyn. She just got to speak such spiritual truth into this teenage life at the same time I was delivering my first spiritual message. God was so in this building tonight. I could feel his calming presence. Even though I was chaotic on the inside, you couldn't tell (according to Megan) on the outside and that's all I needed. I 100% can count on God to pull through in the most stressful situations.

If God brings every day to us like this one, physically the ride will be quite bumpy. But when this summer is over I will be so spiritually filled that I can't even imagine right now. God's presence is so strong here that there is no way I could not benefit. So fill me up Lord, only to pour me out onto the lives of all these people this summer. I'm so ready.