Camp has started!

Yesterday was our first day of Allendale day camp. On Tuesday I finally got to meet all of my camp staff, we had an extremely productive training day, and were ready for kids on Wednesday morning. One of the challenges of Allendale camp is you never know how many kids are coming and who is coming. Usually they aren't many kids the first few days, but as camp continues more kids keep trickling in. I had been talking to kids that I knew in the neighborhood about camp all summer but I really had no clue who was going to show up that first day. We had 18 kids come yesterday! That was more than twice as many as we had on the first day of camp last year. And most of our campers were between the ages of 9 and 12 which is just awesome. This morning we had 20 kids, and this afternoon we had 28. Last year the most we ever had was 30 and that was at the end of camp. Praise God! He is truly sending us kids and these kids want to be here. Thus far we have made and decorated hoola-hoops, built bug boxes, played with water balloons, made home-made magnets with scripture verses on them, made plaster paris handprints, and tons of chalk, jump rope, four square and tag games. Keep praying that God sends us kids and that we can really show them the Father's love.