GLO Camp 2007

Its Friday, its six o’clock, and GLO camp 2007 has all but come to an end at MCCC. What a week we have had… 48 children and helpers were joined by the seven members of the GLO team sent from Scotland: Ashley Harris, Allison Hill, Charlotte Gibson, Christine Lee, David Crawford, Alan Guy and Stephen Watson. All that remains is tonight’s talent show from the children – always a most entertaining affair!

The theme for the week was ‘Let’s Celebrate’ and that is exactly what we did. Starting on Monday, the voices of children singing songs and screaming encouragement at fellow team members became the norm for the rest of the week. Our daily activities always included singing, quizzes, stories from the Bible, crafts, games and memory verses. All the stories were based around the sayings of the Lord Jesus in John’s gospel. We learned that Jesus said, ‘I am the bread of life…’, ‘I am the light of the world...’, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life…’, ‘I am the good shepherd…’ and ‘I am the resurrection and the life…’.

The children were divided into teams for various aspects of the competitive side of the camp and each team given names of soft drinks: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Fanta, Mirinda, Sprite and Tangawizi. The Pepsi team collected the final award for the week and many other individual prizes were given out too.

One highlight for this year was the addition of our swimming pool to afternoon activities. On Tuesday and Thursday we had a ball with most of the children taking part in using the pool at one time or another. For some of them this was the first time to go swimming and you can imagine the shrieks and screams of delight.

At the end of camp there is always opportunity for the children to make a response to the message of the Gospel that they have been hearing. This is never done under any kind of pressure or persuasion but we believe it is important for the children who sense a need to respond to Jesus. One young lad this year, called Charles (12), came to the meeting room of his own accord at the appointed time and expressed his desire to know Jesus as his Saviour. We were delighted to be able to direct him to the Saviour. What a wonderful way for our camp to end.

Thanks to every one of our supporters who prayed for us, the team and the children this week. Remember the camp planned for next week at Uchira when we expect to have more than 100 kids! Special thanks to Alan Guy and our friends at Strathclyde Police who helped raise funds and sent over some really cool prizes! Thanks to GLO (www.glo-europe.org) for their partnership with us in this ministry.