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August 08, 2007

Childrens Camp in Gorom-Gorom

I haven't been able to blog for a while as the internet connection is bad at the moment. Photos will be posted later when the connection is better.

We arrived in Gorom okay, though it meant crossing a few deep waters in our truck - fortunately without problem.

Instead of 100 children for the camp, we have about 250, the majority of whom are from local Muslim families. This has presented challenges - not least for the budget, the food, sleeping room, and meeting place. But we are rejoicing that so many families are happy for their children to spend their week in an evangelical camp. One father came to take his children away in tears; he was angry that his wife had let them come without his permission. But the next day he sent them back to rejoin the camp.

Things are going really well, and we have a great team of local Christians from the local churches as well as Pete, Maggie, Hawa and Trudi. The camp leaders have asked us to work particulary with the kids from Muslim families, and have some wonderful local Christians to help us. We appreciate your prayers for this. A great variety of games, teaching, songs, etc.

Please continue to pray for health for the kids and the team. There is a lot of rain, which is good for the fields, but means there are lots of malaia-carrying mosquitoes around.

Thanks. More soon.

Posted by Keith at August 8, 2007 09:59 AM