The Vine - York St Church of Christ

Camp 1 – Girls, saying
goodbye lamentations
On Tuesday, children arrived for the two
day camp. God has a good sense of
humour. I really, really don’t like feet at
all and my responsibility when the
children arrived was to measure their
feet for new shoes.
York Street
Overseas
Missions Committee
Then there was face painting and we played games and
songs and had a memory verse to remember and recite – In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth Gen
1:1.
We went into groups and were given a verse from Genesis
about creation. We had five children and a teacher in each
group and we had to act it out. It was great, even though
there was a language barrier. We were able to recite a verse
about God creating the livestock and animals and we acted
like animals and made sounds. The girls I had, got so into it.
Henry Deutscher
Aaron Luttrell
Over the two days, there were two girls I really connected
with. I played soccer with them and tried to teach them how
to kick and hand ball an AFL football. I just felt so connected
to them even though again there was a language barrier.
They just touched my heart. On the last day as we said ‘bye I
cried so much. I had an overwhelming mothering instinct that
when I was hugging them that I really, really didn’t want to let
them go. I didn’t know or could imagine the hardships they
were facing back home but I had to let them go.
After we said goodbye I was an emotional wreck so I went
and spent time with God and with my Bible. I just poured out
all my emotion and my heart to him. I realised it’s a total trust
thing that they were in God’s arms before they were in mine.
Now they have left me, they continue to be in His arms. The
love I feel for them is only a glimpse into the love God has for
these precious children. He is their loving father. Then I felt I
really needed to read my Bible. I feel that God gave me these
passages Psalm 121:1-3 and Lamentations 3:19-24 .
A couple of days later two of us were sitting with Adam and
looking at his photos and his stories. He said something that
really stuck me, “After you meet people in the community and
go back and read the word, the words in the Bible become so
real, especially Lamentations!” I was gob smacked. He pretty
well explained what God had done in my heart. So when we
were alone later I mentioned, “I’m glad you said that because
I had that very experience the other day with a couple of
verses in Lamentations.” He asked to look at the verses and
said they were the same verses God had given him. It gave
me tingles and made me again feel like I am right where God
wants me to be :D
Bec Howlett
Andy Francis
Henry Deutscher
Renata Dempsey
Aaron Luttrell
Eunice Clay
Betty Veal
Interested? Andy Francis Why not talk with
one Eunice Clay of the Overseas
Missions Committee today
Renata Dempsey
and Betty find Veal out how you can
help spread hope.
Some are called to go and
some are called to send.
Who will go and who will
send? Those called to go
cannot go unless they are
sent and those called to
send cannot send if no one
will go.
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