Our team enjoyed being together for the last camp and now we will split in two again. Two or three of us will be going to Kuressaare and the rest will be going to Tallinn. The teams that are arriving this week are both from Georgia; one team from Northpoint Community Church and the other a group of students from Georgia College and State University, I like to call this group "Benton & Co."
I am very excited for this last camp, I really do believe that God is going to do HUGE things for the leadership team of Kuressaare's church and also for the students that will be attending camp.
Innar and I are heading up this camp and I also believe that God is already and going to continue doing huge things in us as we are both young and new leaders. This challenge is so exciting for me. I am looking forward to learning both the easy and the hard way from this camp. Personally this is my seventh English Camp I have been a part of and I believe that I know more about English Camps than anything else in my life. In all 12 and half years that I went to school I did not learn this much. I have really found a passion in this place and I am sad to have to leave in less than three weeks. Although with that said, I am looking forward to future meetings with Estonia.
On Thursday we will begin our final journey as a team for this summer. Please keep us in your prayers for safety of travel and also for spiritual protection. More importantly please keep the leaders of the church in Kuressaare and the students that will be attending camp from Kuressaare; also the leaders from Rakvere's church and the students that will be attending camp from Rakvere in your prayers. They are why we are here. We love serving them.
-shields
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All of your blogs are so amazing! You can see that God is really moving in & through you, and you can see your spiritual & mental growth through them. God truly is amazing in all that He does.
I'm sure words cannot even begin to express your love for Estonia & all of the people in it, though they do show your immeasurable passion for God's work, wherever it may be found.
I know that God WILL show up as this last camp begins to unfold, and His story will be told. Be excited and be joyful because God is using you in so many ways, and He is imparting a sense of leadership in your life; to be used now, and in the future.
I pray that every single student that comes to the camps in Kuressaare and Rakvere would be enlightened and changed, touched by the hand of God Himself. I pray that on each one of His children He would leave an imprint, a mark showing His claim over their lives. I pray for the leaders to receive direction from God, and to be receptive to all that He speaks to them. I pray that You God, would be clearly evident through the lives of Your leaders. Work in them, unbinding any chains that are keeping them from fully experiencing You and the gifts that You want to provide them with,"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then and do not let yourselves again be burdened by the yolk of slavery"(galatians 5:1). Be with them as they travel, and protect each one of them. Be glorified through all that they do. Amen.
Brett, I hope you continue to grow up until the very last second of your trip. I hope you bring back your incredible joy and memories, and share it with all of us; and then I hope you grow even more in God, because the journey is only over once Christ returns. "Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known"(1 Corinthians 13:12).
Miss you! Be joyful!
~Demee
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