Resuelto ~ Resolved

RESUELTO ~ this was the theme at teen camp this year.  Resuelto means resolved....as in....God has resolved my sin problem, God has resolved my salvation....and because of this....I will be resolved to live for Him, I will resolve to make wise choices in my life.

400 people on a campground built for 200 max.  We do this every year.  Six pop tents for the 50 girls who didn't fit in the dorms, 20 girls packed into a room with 12 mattresses, 40 boys sleeping under a huge circus tent....on the grass.....ooooh, just writing this makes me cringe.  These kids have such great attitudes and are such troopers!  After all, they keep coming back and we keep squeezing them in!

It has been our prayer for years to own our own camp property and now, this has become a reality.  My in-laws, the Williams, missionaries in Peru for 40 years, have overseen the purchase of a property and now, we are all just anxiously waiting to get started building on it.  This will allow us to divide this large group of young teens into two different weeks of camp each summer and will open so many doors for other camps and retreats.

Out of the 40+ kids who received Christ this week was Flor, who turned 14 the first day of camp.  She is from Pichanaki and came with us this year, along with Kelly, our Ashaninka friend.  We don't know a whole lot about Flor because she is extremely shy and hardly talks at all!  We do know she lives with her father and little sister and that she loves to laugh and play.  Flor is now a sister for eternity and we look forward to getting to know her much better in the months to come and assisting her in growing in her new life.

Oh, the stories I could tell.......sisters who saved their money all year long to pay for camp and to buy camp t-shirts, the rape victim who finally got the help she needed, the 70+ raised hands saying they didn't have the money for camp but God had provided, the middle age lawyer who decided she wanted to spend the week sleeping on a thin mat in a roomful of giggling girls so she could counsel and befriend them, the American woman who didn't speak Spanish but shared her testimony from her heart and touched many, the boy who gave his life to serve God full-time when he finishes school..........and so many more.

What a blessing and a privilge to be a part of camp in Lima ~ Aukallama Radical 2012 ~ May God bless this outreach in ways we can't even begin to imagine.