The Huber family is now at Creekside, campers just arrived last night. 447 kids and leaders from Everett/Mill Creek (with dear friends like Tanner Kunard, the Dowdells, Kylene Schaeffer, ABaker, etc.) here as leaders!), 4 Seattle/Highline areas (including leader Allen Turner, Hugo Lam, Micailah Moore & Jordan Bettencourt), Billings/Big Sky, Cody WY, Ellensburg, 5 Cle Elum kids, Dayton/Waitsburg, and McMinnville & Albany OR.
I gave my first talk last night. It was a jam packed room...wasn't sure what my prepared words were going to contribute. I shared a story last night of getting a pic with Seahawks/U.W. WR Jermaine Kearse with my 'shooters sleeve', relating it to the hurting woman who audaciously reached through the crowd to Jesus and he noticed, healed her and listened to her whole story. A cabin of girls made their own shooters sleeves out of tube socks too & we got a pic. Classic.
This morning (Day 2) Tanya and I co-hosted an all camp gathering we called 'Real Life' where we had 3 work crew kids share a drawing of their family. Tanya helped them explain it from the stage, and then we invited kids and leaders to draw their own family, outline style.
Kids
and leaders bunched up and took it surprisingly serious. Some kids left
their family outline and it broke my heart...reminding us of the kinds
of stories young people have. See below, see the family in the 'clouds'
which symbolized family had died. Also included family in jail and on
drugs...with what seems to be a single mom with many kids.Pray that the Lord would open the broken hearts of these 400+ middle school kids. And somehow use our team to proclaim and relay his love to them in terms they 'get.'
Thank you!
-Jeff and Tanya Huber
No comments:
Post a Comment