The Two Camps

The last two weeks have been a really good start to the New Year, with KBC’s Youth camp followed by Gosham Bible Week. I’ll go over the structure that each one followed so you can have a feel of what we have been doing.

Youth Camp:

Devotions

Breakfast

Talk

Quiet Time

Talk

Games

Lunch

Swimming

Free Time

Evening Activity

Bed

So Youth Camp was situated 3 hours (or two) away from Kampala in a place called Musana (sun) Camps that was run by an American family. It was right by Lake Victoria and had some lovely views that were just pretty enough to not mind getting up early. Now what you must understand is that ‘youth’ in Uganda can range between 14 and 25. Food was African style so it was probably the most carb filled week I’ve had in a while but it was good and filled us up for probably the most amount of activity I’ve had as well.

The Talks where great, all stemming from the topic of life’s ‘Dashboard.’ It was nice teaching to start the year on. The games where great: team activities that we won quite a few of.

Swimming was probably one of my highlights as it’s just a nice thing to do in such a hot country. On Thursday our walk to the beach was a long one because of a beautiful detour to a waterfall.  

First nights ‘activity’ was an... interesting film called ‘I’m in love with a church girl.’ You can probably guess the story line. Second night was fashion night where we made a cat walk that people walked down. Third night was a laugh if a bit awkward one as it was ‘Date night’ where everyone had to dress up and the guys had to ask one special lady to be their date for an evening. It was also a special meal with meat and chapatti washed down with a soda (if your date got you one.) My personal highlight of that night was seeing Alex, Peter and the rest of the leaders sing and dance to a song. The last night we gathered round a camp fire in worship which was a lovely way to end the week.

All in all it was an awesome chance to get closer to both God and the youth of the surrounding area.

Saturday was a busy day full of unpacking, washing and repacking plus a little trip for me to the post office in which I received a few more Christmas pressies.

So Gosha Bible Camp:

Breakfast of Chapattis (YAY)

Devotions

Setting up class rooms

Worship

Teaching

Games

Porridge

Free time

Film

Evaluation

Teaching went far better than I was expecting then again it is probably the first time I’ve taught out here with a clear plan and a translator so that was good. The teaching was on the story of Saul and David from Samuel (David and Goliath was my favourite story to teach) Games where good, stepping up their game throughout the week. It was great to see the kids eating and generally engaging in everything as well as remembering the memory verses! The films in the evening had Christian messages and where translated into Luganda and had a good turn out every night.

It was a tiring week but I really think we made an impact and hopefully have sowed seeds that will grow.

Yesterday we went to a VOW (vessels of worship) concert which our very own Alex was in. It was awesome, some great worship there but in all the last two days have been once more packing washing and repacking. I have however finished reading The Two Towers (hence the blog title).

Once again, thank you to all who are supporting me. God has been great.