Prayer Requests
As a volunteer counselor to
the children at camp, you get to hear the hearts of wounded children. All during
our 4-6th grade weekend, I prayed for what God would have me share
with my camper. Feeling His Spirit but not direction, I just enjoyed our Bible
Studies and One-on-ones as we got to know each other. Abe* had been a very
broken child but had accepted Jesus’ love and salvation two years earlier at
camp. He now has a vibrant faith and knowledge gained through asking soul
longing questions. At our last One-on-one, God gave me the clear message to
discuss this boy’s charismatic charm that had been noticed by each girl camper
during our weekend. He said he enjoyed girl’s company and having lots of girl
“friends.” God needed to let him know why He had given him such friend
producing gifts and how to use them to encourage girls in the Lord and not use
them for bolstering his ego. I showed him scriptures on encouraging others and
how God wants men to treat women as sisters before marriage. The shocked look
on his face but questioning spirit to understand what was meant was endearing.
Please pray for Abe to continue to grow and to find the proper balance with
girls as he enters adolescence.
Two siblings, who are past campers and are in
training to be Jr. Counselors (JC’s) at camp, are having issues in their foster
home of 6 years. Few foster youth stay at one placement for that long. The
climate in the home changed as the foster parents decided to take in more needy
foster youth which has changed their home to a war scene daily. They are made
for such a time as this but don’t seem to know it. Please that they can be used
by God in their home to serve these others boys now that they have grown in the
Lord after accepting Jesus as Savior at camp years ago.
A past camper, Yvette, is
married to an awesome Christian and has a beautiful baby girl. She has been
attacked heavily since she has stepped up to share her dramatic testimony for
camp events. A poorly insured girl ran into her at a signal which has caused
intense back pain for her that has kept her from her job for many days and she
has not been able to get the medical care needed. Please pray for her that
things would get settled with her insurance company so she can get therapy
treatments or for the back to just be healed! She is one of God’s jewels that
we consider a hero!
Here at camp we need to ask for
prayer for our staff. Various sicknesses the last 6 months has been taking a
toll with frequent days in bed. Matt & Tarrah have been fighting different
illnesses all winter. Rey has had a cold for months and last week was told he
may be losing his hearing from an infection. Praise God that his hearing has
returned and the severe ringing in his ears stopped after a pouring out of
prayers for him by our staff. Please also pray for no further thwarting caused
by equipment issues that have also plagued us. Praise God, He is faithful and
when we need to be up and running to make camp happen, we have all been able to
work it.
We want to invite you to come to
and also pray for our Crevier Event. We want this to be a God touched event for
all who attend as you cover it in prayer. Please pray that everyone will bring
lots of new friends for camp who will want to help abused children in all areas
of need like prayer, counseling and giving of time and treasure. Save the date-
April 13th, 6:30PM, for a banquet dinner, inspirational camper
testimonies, all free to you and all the guests you bring. Go to our website
for free tickets at www.CampAlandale.org
Remaining Winter
Camp dates to pray for:
Feb
22-24 7-9th Grade Mar 1-3 10-12th Grade
Mar
15-17 10-12th Grade Mar 22-24 10-12th Grade
Please pray
that our theme of “Being Rooted” will impact the campers to grow in the Lord and
for adequate numbers of counselors at each session.
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