“I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course. So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle. Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.”

Jeremiah 10:23-24


But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves are green, and they never stop producing fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Breakthrough Camp for Youth

Thursday evening and Friday morning the whole team went to a southern suburb of Cape Town called Strandfontein to do a program at Breakthrough Camp - a 10 day camp for youth ages 14 - 25 who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. It was an awesome experience! It's a Christian camp so the kids are learning to deal with their addictions by giving their lives to Jesus. Our program on Thursday night was titled "Are You Free?". We asked them to think about freedom in their lives and to look at what areas they are slaves to sin and can't break free without asking Jesus into their lives. We showed a short video, did a skit and one of our volunteers shared testimony. We then had an open worship time, where they could choose to quietly read, draw, chat with someone, write out their prayer requests and read other's requests and pray for them and we gave them a red ribbon they could nail to a wooden cross - signifying they were giving some issue or sin in their lives to Jesus - the next morning we had replaced the red ribbons with white ribbon - Jesus had washed their sins away with His blood. It was really meaningful to the kids. At the end we also gave them a sheet of paper to write out their confessions on and then we took them outside and burned them, just to show that once we confess and ask forgiveness the sin is gone.

On Friday the program was titled "Puzzled" and just dealt with the confusion we feel sometimes about what we should do with our lives. So the activites were designed to show that God has a plan for our lives and when we are puzzled or confused on what to do we can turn to Him, that He loves us and wants to show us a better way of living. The kids really opened up about their lives and where they need are suffering and need Jesus. We all agreed the experience was great and we learned just as much as the campers did (as always seems to happen when you are ministering to someone!)! We hope to do more camps like this in the future! Please pray for more opportunities for this to open up!

Blessings!
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