Today was the Last day of CCI Romania's Camp Directors Institute (CDI). It went wonderfully, God blessed the event with good teaching and willing servants. God blessed the participants with open ears and receptive hearts. Ed and Matt were able to deliver seminars on marketing and programming respectively. The Romanian people are passionate and warm, and we have made some great relationships with the people that attended the Camp Directors Institute. Members of our team have written about their experiences at CDI and in Romania . Tomorrow we will travel to one of the more established camps in Romania called Integro. There we will be putting on a winter camp for teens. Pray for us as we travel, as we make final preparations, and pray for us as we execute the winter camp. Currently the camp is not to capacity please pray specifically that the camp is filled between now and Friday afternoon. Once again thank you for your Support and Prayers and don't forget to check out what everyone else wrote.
InHisGrip,
Matt
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Just a thought from Kent
Have you ever had the feeling that you are a part of some thing that is bigger then you. That is how I have been feeling through the last several days here as we have been working with others at the CCI Romania Camp Directors Institiute. I feel it every time that I talk to anyone here I feel as though ministry is so much bigger than me. When I am dead it will still be here and it was here before I was born. I feel that I have been blessed and honored with the chance that God has given me to be a part of his plan. While I have been here I have felt as though I have been with family; I truly do not know how this is possible. I mean if you look at this from a realistic point of view you would say that there is no real reason that I will ever see any of these people again but for some reason I have found everyone rather easy to talk to, even with the language barrier. I have felt like I was talking to one of my closest friend when I was talking to some of the camp directors. I have also felt like a massive family when we were in the middle of a snow ball fight that included an Orthodox Priest. It even felt like a true family event when we were trying to help push a van full of our new found friends up a hill so that they could leave and go home. It reminds me of the book of Mark where it says that any one who is doing the work of God is in the same Family. After this there is no doubt in my mind that this is true. Please remember the continue to pray for the camps in Romania.
Kent
Kent
God of the Nations
God continues to prove himself to me over and over again. From touring the big city of Bucharest to traveling through mountain towns and worshiping our Christ with those of different culture and language, it is just so overwhelming to see how God works everywhere in the world.
Things are going so great over here. We just finished the Christian Camping International Romania's Camp Directors Institute. It was amazing to speak to most of the attendees who spoke very good English. I am a little under the weather but God renews my strength daily. My team and I are growing so much with each other through this experience.
We are off to do a winter camp for the weekend and then a couple more camp tours the rest of our time here. I will be back in the states on Thursday! I miss you all and love you, and am so grateful of your love and support that got us here along with God unending love and grace.
He is truly a God for the Nations!
In Him and all my Love
Scott
Things are going so great over here. We just finished the Christian Camping International Romania's Camp Directors Institute. It was amazing to speak to most of the attendees who spoke very good English. I am a little under the weather but God renews my strength daily. My team and I are growing so much with each other through this experience.
We are off to do a winter camp for the weekend and then a couple more camp tours the rest of our time here. I will be back in the states on Thursday! I miss you all and love you, and am so grateful of your love and support that got us here along with God unending love and grace.
He is truly a God for the Nations!
In Him and all my Love
Scott
From Lois
Dear Friends and Family,
It is day 8 or 9 (truthfully I cannot remember), and we just wrapped up the CDI conference at Hagrita conference center. It is truly beautiful here. We are up in the mountains, with the tall pine trees all around us. One of the mountain tops even has a white cross on it. It is from a fable, Emi told us about a knight on a huge white horse that climbed all the way to the top of the mountain and then the horse slipped and died. Sad, but a beautiful story. We got to go to see the Peleis, the castle of the first king of Romania (who was a German), it was absolutely amazing with carved wood, 5,000 weapons from around the world and I can't explain it, you'll have to wait for pictures. We also got to visit Braun Castle, which is an medieval castle that belonged to Regina Maria (Queen Mary) up until the communists took control. It is also the castle that is supposedly the Dracula castle. And you can see where the myth came from, but the funny thing is that Vlad Dracula never lived there, and actually the Transylvania's hold him in high regard as a just and fair ruler that punished those who broke the law, whether they were rich or poor.
I will have more to tell you all later, but for now I need to sleep and pack so that we can move on to Integro camp where we will be hosting a winter weekend for youth.
With much Love,
Lois
It is day 8 or 9 (truthfully I cannot remember), and we just wrapped up the CDI conference at Hagrita conference center. It is truly beautiful here. We are up in the mountains, with the tall pine trees all around us. One of the mountain tops even has a white cross on it. It is from a fable, Emi told us about a knight on a huge white horse that climbed all the way to the top of the mountain and then the horse slipped and died. Sad, but a beautiful story. We got to go to see the Peleis, the castle of the first king of Romania (who was a German), it was absolutely amazing with carved wood, 5,000 weapons from around the world and I can't explain it, you'll have to wait for pictures. We also got to visit Braun Castle, which is an medieval castle that belonged to Regina Maria (Queen Mary) up until the communists took control. It is also the castle that is supposedly the Dracula castle. And you can see where the myth came from, but the funny thing is that Vlad Dracula never lived there, and actually the Transylvania's hold him in high regard as a just and fair ruler that punished those who broke the law, whether they were rich or poor.
I will have more to tell you all later, but for now I need to sleep and pack so that we can move on to Integro camp where we will be hosting a winter weekend for youth.
With much Love,
Lois
From jaNell
Hello All!!
This is my first time going over seas. This mission trip is one of the main reason I felt called to join the LCM program,even though at that time the mission trip was just an idea: where we were going and for what reason was not know, but I felt called to move to Wisconsin from California to experience God's plan for me. I am truly thankful that I did follow God's calling to join the LCM program. Thank you all for your support while we are here, it is greatly appreciated!!
With Love, jaNell
This is my first time going over seas. This mission trip is one of the main reason I felt called to join the LCM program,even though at that time the mission trip was just an idea: where we were going and for what reason was not know, but I felt called to move to Wisconsin from California to experience God's plan for me. I am truly thankful that I did follow God's calling to join the LCM program. Thank you all for your support while we are here, it is greatly appreciated!!
With Love, jaNell
From Kayleen
Well we are officially half way through our journey! It's been a lot of fun, and challenging at the same time. Thankfully the communication barrier hasn't been as big of an issue as we all thought. It can still complicate things, but most people can speak English, or if they can't we do have a translator, Letty, who we all love! We have just wrapped up the CDI conference and it went wonderfully! God truly provided for many needs. Next we are off to Camp Integro where we will be hosting a youth event. Then we will be holding some after school events and seminars for our last few days at different camps. And then we head home to the States.
~Kayleen
~Kayleen
Form Jana
We left November 27th and it is December 5th, we've been here for 9 days, and we've seen God work in amazing ways. As the Camp Director Institute closes we have many blessings to report. We've seen and heard, through our translator Letty - who is AWESOME by the way, the problems that the camps in Romania are facing and what they want to do to improve it. I've truly seen the body of Christ at work here. I am very appreciative of the people we've been working with and I am praying for the rest of our trip that we continue to form strong bonds with the Romanians. We have received an answer to prayer which is that there isn't as strong of a language barrier as we thought at first. Please continue to pray for us and our ministry here in Romania.
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