FEC Pt. 3 ~

Hello! I thought I'd actually put some pics of us this time:) I'm usually happily behind the camera but I did get in one photo w/one of the girls who became my sidekick during camp. Taka gave a message on the last night of camp. There was a message each night (& last afternoon), followed by breaking up into small groups to reflect on the message.The theme of the camp was "Jesus is the Friend You Need Most." Taka spoke from Ps. 139...about God's knowing us & everything, His always being with us & His love for us, whom He created (nutshell summary!). The pics you see are of Taka speaking & of Taka on two different days with his small group boys. Oh, the other shot is of another group of campers that were so cute, I had to take their picture.

FEC Pt. 2--Rise and Shine

6:45 am....that's the time that some tune (I can't remember what it was now...)would start playing throughout the campgrounds. Though the girls in my cabin were chatting into the wee hours of the night, they were all up & chatting by 6am...thus I was up, but it was nice to wake up to sunshine too. At 6:45 the music started playing & I could here someone in the boys'cabin giving a very loud & cheerful wakeup call of his own. At 7am, we'd gather in the cabin (the boys in theirs &girls in ours) for morning devotions.That was a treat:) Then we'd all head to one of the fields for the flag raisin ceremony. Any group staying at the camp would attend. The flag would be raised & anyone leaving camp that day would have a representative go up to the front to say goodbye.That was followed by all of us doing morning stretches to a tape recording. The last shot you see is of Taka & some of the boys headin towards the cafeteria for breakfast...

Friendship English Camp Pt.1

We just got back on Thursday from a 4 day English/Bible camp outreach that was held by some missionaries & churches from another part of our prefecture. We're tired, but it was a blessing & we pray for the seeds planted. I took a lot of pics, so I'll post just a few at a time. These are of the girls' cabin. I was trying to explain it to my dad on the phone...hard to do, so here are some pics! (The ones where you can actually see the tatami mats were taken after our final cleanup on the day we left.)