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!
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