Hey! We're still here... and with GLO camp 2009!

The GLO camp 2009 was early this year owing to some family committments that Allan & Jacqui have back in UK in June. The team was very specialised and Allison Hill, our regular 'director' was accompanied by Jason Westmoreland who is a puppeteer, magician and clown! (Oh and that's what he says about himself as well, honest!) Linda Watson also joined us in week one and with the existing personnel on the ground in Moshi (Matthew, David, Scott and Louise) we were able to give more than eighty kids an absolute ball over the two weeks.

Week one was for the children from our community care programme. The hail from around the Moshi district villages and love being at camp. This year, Juggles the clown (Jason), was keeping them entertained as they learned the story of the Bible and in particular the Easter story during their time in Moshi Christian Children's Centre.

The kids had other opportunities to draw, play, sing, do drama and puppets themselves, and to hear the good news of Jesus dying for them so they could be forgiven their sins. Four children wanted to make the committment to follow Jesus as their own Saviour and Lord. We were very excited that God had blessed us again in our goal of Making Children Count for Christ!

The second week was a little bit special because we had invited nearly forty children from another poor orphanage on the mountain to come and join us. This was a huge highlight for them and us and they were sorry to go at the end of the camp. Many of them though poor in the things of this world were rich in kingdom values and knew the Lord and the importance of prayer and Bible reading. They were experts in learning the memory verses and could sing many of the choruses in English. Of particular blessing to us while they were with us was their rendition of 'Hosana! Hosana! Hosana to the king of kings!'