Brook Seekins with a final note on the 2008 summer camps

Hello once again,
We are finished with the 2008 Youth camps. Praise the Lord! It was a really busy time, but God was good and did so much more than we could have imagined! We are praising the Lord for over 45 campers this last week in the Rukwa Valley. It was exciting to have 9 missionary kids and their friends from the US come and join us. It was tough for some of them with the language
barrier, but they did a great job. All the Tanzanian campers loved the white kids choir! It was also great Justin back working with us. After his child died, he couldn't join us, but it was a blessing to have his energy in the third week of camp. Even the other counselors that were ill last week joined us and it was helpful to be fully staffed in this third and final week. We are also praising the Lord for the 6-8 kids that came to know the Lord. In the Pink group there were several girls that kept answering the questions about going to Heaven by saying it was all good works. But then we would teach them and they would seem to understand. These girls were between 13-16 years old. Every time I or their teacher would ask if they wanted to pray to accept the Lord, they would look at their friends and be too embarrassed to make that step. Finally their teacher pulled them aside one by one and led at least 4 of them to the Lord. We had a short good-bye party for the staff on Friday night after the final service. We had a cake and soda and watched a slide show of all the pictures we had taked through out the week. It's so funny to watch them seeing pictures of themselves. They laugh and tell each other how funny they looked! But it was also neat to hear them saying, "That girl/boy was in my group during this certain week of camp." They remembered each kid they had. One of the greatest comments I had this summer came from a one of my new counselors, Jericho. After a week with a tough group of guys he told me that he had learned so much about ministry by working at camp and dealing with the tough kids and the good ones. He feels it has made him a better leader. Praise the Lord! That is one of the biggest reasons I do summer camps -- to train up future leaders.

So in hindsight we look back on three weeks of camp with 3 Americans and 17 Tanzanian staff, we were so honored to be the vessels of Lord in this ministry. We closed our good-bye staff party with a worship song talking about how there is no other God like our God and thanking Him for all He has done. We were quiet as we realized how many things He did through us these three weeks. Over 180 kids came to camp and over 75 of them came to know the Lord as their personal Saviour. So many others were changed and rededicated their lives to God.

Join us in praising the Lord for all that He has done this summer in Youth camps. Pray for us as we head back to Dar Es Salaam and send Steph and Jessica back to the US. Pray for the preparations that need to be done for the upcoming Marriage Camp Staff Training in less than 3 weeks.

In Him,
Brook

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2 Timothy 2:20-21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.