Training Camp, the week every Racer wonders about, spends hours reading about, and is never quite satisfied until it actually happens. Then their heads and hearts are exploded and overwhelmed in every way possible. At least that’s how it worked out for me.
My traing camp ended yesterday, and I am still waiting to find just the right words to describe what happened. I could tell you the stories, like that one time a few of us decided to sleep on the boat ramp and it ended up being so super cold by the early morning….it was a bonding moment for a few of us, and other such stories. Or how hot and physically tiring it was. But that was not what training camp was all about.
Yes, it was wonderful to finally meet and bond with my squad mates, but the real outcome from camp were the moments I (and each of individually) grew closer to God. The moments when He literally spoke to me and called me out on trusting Him, or when we danced during worship and all the while He was whispering His love to me. There were times when He asked me to speak over people words that I had no idea the meaning behind. Then there were times when my squad mates, leaders, and even Adventures staff spoke and prayed over me. God did some wonderful things in my heart. He taught me a little more about who I am and who He is.
There is a river that flows from my Father. A river of His love and that is where I want to drown, heal, be baptized, pull people into, and just dwell. I want to be a River Dweller and never leave!
Not only was Training Camp amazing, but God decided that He wasn’t done overwhelming me by His amazing goodness. My brother told me he got saved at high school camp!!!
So yeah, Training Camp was awesome and my brother got saved! The end.
But that is not the end, because when God starts something He is faithful and true to see it all the way through (and that is a promise!). God has begun some amazing things in my squad and my brother and elsewhere and the devil doesn’t like it at all.
I firmly believe that when God is on the move satan begins to up his attacks. My squad has certainly felt it just in the past 24-48 hours. There are quite a few that have developed an illness of some kind, two recieved pretty bad news, one lost luggage, and two that came home to something not working. God is so much bigger than these situations, and He is going to see us through them!
Please continue to pray for J-squad as we take these next six weeks to be present whete God has us but also prepare for what God is going to do in and through us!
Through Christ,
Brooke
