The past months have absolutely flown by here in Peru. In January I went north to the city of Trujillo to teach at Family Camp. I was in charge of the class of 9-12 year olds, and we had a blast! Studying the Armor of God from Ephesians 6 with those kids was fantastic. We had an intense class squeezing five Bible lessons into three days, but the kids were all attentive and ready to learn. For our closing program, the kids worked really hard to memorize all five of the memory verses and the hymn ''How Great Thou Art'' (in Spanish though of course).
Coming back, we had two weeks to get ready for another round of camps, Pastor's Camp and Missionary Camp. Pastor's Camp was a bit of a challenge as I was the head teacher for the 1-5 year olds. We had 17 children the first two days and 18 children the last two days. The teachers were in charge of their students from nine in the morning til one in the afternoon. During that time we had Bible lessons, memory verses, game time, craft time, and pool time. Then we would feed the kids supper at six and have games and songs in the chapel while their parents ate. The last night we hosted a banquet for all the parents where Kyle and I were the hosts and the Arriba group sang special music.
The following week of Missionary Camp was much more relaxed as there were fewer students and we taught everything in English. I was once again with the youngest group and 3-year-olds Joel, Jack, Isaac, and I had a great time blasting off into space to discover more about God. After our Bible lesson we would paint boxes to be our rocket ships that we used in our closing program. On Wednesday night all the adults went out to eat and we put on a skit night for all the kids and afterwards I put my little guys to bed along with two little girls that had just turned one. I had a fantastic time with my class and one of the boys even started calling me Aunt Kimberly (all the Missionary Kids call the other missionaries Aunt or Uncle).
Keep praying for the hearts that were worked on at the camps, many of the little ones especially, though they are children of pastors or missionaries have not yet submitted their lives to Christ or accepted him as Savior.
Coming back, we had two weeks to get ready for another round of camps, Pastor's Camp and Missionary Camp. Pastor's Camp was a bit of a challenge as I was the head teacher for the 1-5 year olds. We had 17 children the first two days and 18 children the last two days. The teachers were in charge of their students from nine in the morning til one in the afternoon. During that time we had Bible lessons, memory verses, game time, craft time, and pool time. Then we would feed the kids supper at six and have games and songs in the chapel while their parents ate. The last night we hosted a banquet for all the parents where Kyle and I were the hosts and the Arriba group sang special music.
The following week of Missionary Camp was much more relaxed as there were fewer students and we taught everything in English. I was once again with the youngest group and 3-year-olds Joel, Jack, Isaac, and I had a great time blasting off into space to discover more about God. After our Bible lesson we would paint boxes to be our rocket ships that we used in our closing program. On Wednesday night all the adults went out to eat and we put on a skit night for all the kids and afterwards I put my little guys to bed along with two little girls that had just turned one. I had a fantastic time with my class and one of the boys even started calling me Aunt Kimberly (all the Missionary Kids call the other missionaries Aunt or Uncle).
Keep praying for the hearts that were worked on at the camps, many of the little ones especially, though they are children of pastors or missionaries have not yet submitted their lives to Christ or accepted him as Savior.