the 60 hour Camper Scholarship Campaign.....

is down to the final 25 hours. Can you help send an Asian or Africa young boy or girl to one of our dynamic Christ Centered Sports Friends summer camps? It just takes $50 to send one child to a whole week of camp. I PROMISE this will be a LIFE TIME MEMORY FOR HIM OR HER AND MAYBE LIFE TRANSFORMING!

the goal is 125 camper scholarships by 9pm Monday night. We are about half way there right now and would love for you to jump on board. Maybe you can do more than one scholarship and if you can your FREE to do so. A half a cabin is 5 kids ($250) and a full cabin is 10 ($500).

Love to have you jump on board. Oh and there is a MAJOR CHALLENGE going on too...check out my FB page to see what's happening....just entered the CHICK FILA group into the challenge too.

Trying to make FUNraising lots of FUN!

bd

$50......

Sends a young boy or girl to one of our African or Asian Sports Friends Camps during the summer of 2011 where they will experience the LOVE OF GOD like never before. Our residential camp experiences in Ethiopia have greatly enhanced the relationship between our Sports Ministers and so many Muslim youth. Many have been deeply impacted at camp from a spiritual standpoint thanks to the grace & mercy of our Almighty God. I will share several Amazing God stories from past camp experiences starting tomorrow, Saturday morning, at 9am as I launch a campaign to raise 125 camper scholarships at $50. a piece. It will be a 60 hour campaign ending at 9pm Monday evening. We hope to have 2,000 youth attending one of our camps this year in either Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, or Thailand/Asia. Two questions for you: 1. Would you consider sending one or more young people in Africa or Asia to a Sports Friends camp this year? Think about it tonight. If yes, details will be forthcoming in the morning. If you want to make a matching gift or a challenge that can be done as well. 2. Would you consider helping me reach my camp scholarship goal by promoting this giving opportunity in your sphere of influence? I certainly understand if neither is possible, no worries and no pressure. But if you can, then THANKS SO MUCH. I have a little blurb for you that you can use to send out which you can personalize as well. It all starts tomorrow morning at 9am. Thanks everyone for considering this request.

Children

"Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." American Writer James Baldwin

A couple weeks ago I traveled to Camp Langano to help with the implementation of our new camp programming format. This required an "advance" time with our staff to prepare for the week of camp. We planned on growing from 40 to 80 boys or girls for each weekly session. Double the pleasure! Double the spiritual impact! And double the importance of risk management as well as time management. All in all the week went much better than could be expected according to our Ethiopian leaders.

One of big takeaways for me from the week was the level of importance of the American guest staff learning how to serve the Ethiopian staff, the relationships between the Ethio and American staff and the love demonstrated by all the leaders to each other first & then to each of the kids.

We can talk all we want about unity, serving, love, leadership and trust but it will be the "real living" examples of each during the week that will make the biggest impact on the kids lives. One boy came up to our leader and shared that because of what he saw in our leadership and heard us teach about he was renouncing his bad behavioral ways (stealing) from this day forward. That's a good first step towards knowing the reason behind our leadership's behavior.

Let's be honest about our struggles and let's live in the light with others (this is totally un-american because we are such people pleasures, outward appearance more important that inward transformation but so many blessings waiting for us when we do i.e. freedom from pretending) so that we can run at camp and in life without those things that so easily entangle us. This will allow us to love more freely and abundantly those whom God puts in our sphere of influence. And remember the children are watching!