As usual with
missions trips, the days just seem to fly by!
Rewinding a couple days…
Friday, Debi, one of
our teens and Josiah & MacKenzie left early morning to start the trek up to
South Dakota. Travel was safe and fairly
uneventful . After a break in the travel
for the night they hopped back on the road Saturday and finished the journey,
arriving at Chanku Waste Ranch around 8:00 pm.
They were stuck in dark heavy thunderstorms with very high winds for the
last 50+ miles but the Lord had his hand on them and protected them all the way
in.
The team from Hope
Bible Church in St Louis arrived in Columbia Friday night, and the Hope group
plus our team from Grace pulled out of the church parking lot on time at
6:30am, with another group of 2 traveling about an hour behind them. Despite heavy winds, the day of traveling was
also safe and pleasantly uneventful for them.
The team arrived around 9:30pm Saturday night. By this time the wind and rains had been steadily pouring for a few hours,
turning the dirt/gravel driveway into a massive mud pit. The van + trailer was stuck in the mud for a
little while, and the white van was nicely imbedded into a row of mounds of
mud….it was still there Sunday morning.
:-)
On Sunday we went to
church at Sharps Corner and then passed out fliers to several nearby
communities: Sharps Corner, Evergreen, Porcupine and Manderson. We spent the
rest of the evening getting our game plan ready for the first day of camp.
Fast-forwarding to
today…Monday, and it's Day 1 of Camp.
Total camper attendance today was 39. Your teens are putting what they
learned and studied for the past few months into practice with crafts, games,
and Bible lessons/singing. Some have
found the time invested over the past few months was well worth it, and some
have realized it is much harder to hold the attention of a room full of kids
than expected!
Thankfully the
temperature today has been great, lower 90's with a fabulous breeze! Will post details of Day 2 tomorrow!
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