For Us June is always the wrapping up of the school year and the big inhale to start summer ministry.
For me that means a lot of juggling, trying to make sure all the details are thought through, all of the ministry supplies are located or purchased, the right documentation has been submitted and approved by orphanage officials to be able to bring the kids to camps, and making sure our staff and volunteers are ready on every level.
This means I'm having lots of meetings, working on lots of lists, schedules, and documents plus shopping and gathering materials. Because we did camps down at our Boys Transition House this year for the first time we had quite a bit of prepping happening there to get the facility ready, which I wrote about in earlier blogs. Whew!
As I look back it was definitely worth it!
We had only 1 of the 4 of the young people which started the Transition program in the fall graduate. The other three succumbed to the pull of leaving Romania to work in Western Europe. We are very proud of Angie that she completed the program well and were able to have a small graduation ceremony and pool party for her.
Ruthie and Karla finished their school years with Ruthie finishing second grade and Karla her second year of preschool. For the first time, Ruthie went away to overnight camp. She went to Tennis camp at the Black Sea. She did pretty well!
We had a couple of work days down at the camp and I'm really pleased with how things turned out. Our theme was Kujua, which means "to Know" We presented to overall plan of God from Adam and Eve to the need for sacrifices, to Jesus coming to be our ultimate sacrifice, and the hope of heaven. This was done using a Hume Lake curriculum and we had a camp setting. We were also able to take most of our Romanian counselors down for a day of mock camp in prep for the summer. We took them through a day and let them play and be campers. We ended the day with a pray time around the camp. One of my favorite moments of the day was walking around the camp and seeing our kids that are new grown up adults, praying for the camps that were to come.
June 24th camps began! Ready or not!!!.....
Ruthie and Karla finished their school years with Ruthie finishing second grade and Karla her second year of preschool. For the first time, Ruthie went away to overnight camp. She went to Tennis camp at the Black Sea. She did pretty well! 
We had a couple of work days down at the camp and I'm really pleased with how things turned out. Our theme was Kujua, which means "to Know" We presented to overall plan of God from Adam and Eve to the need for sacrifices, to Jesus coming to be our ultimate sacrifice, and the hope of heaven. This was done using a Hume Lake curriculum and we had a camp setting. We were also able to take most of our Romanian counselors down for a day of mock camp in prep for the summer. We took them through a day and let them play and be campers. We ended the day with a pray time around the camp. One of my favorite moments of the day was walking around the camp and seeing our kids that are new grown up adults, praying for the camps that were to come.
June 24th camps began! Ready or not!!!.....
