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| Bay and Rocky River H.S. on the way to Saranac Lake |
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| Fairview H.S. at Lake Champion |
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| Lakewood H.S. at Timber Wolf Lake |
Young Life camp can often feel like the finish line of a year of running hard after students. And, in a lot of ways, camp does demonstrate the results of months of showing up at the school, putting on weekly clubs, taking kids to get food, playing games, and having leaders feel like they're starting their own mulching business to get every last kid on that bus to camp.
But, as is often true, things looks a lot different when viewed from a spiritual perspective. For example, camp trips begin to look a lot more like the starting line than the finish line. For many of the 90+ students we took to camp this summer, they unplugged from their phones for the
first time in a long time (something parents often get excited about). They talked about very real things and about Jesus with their friends every day for an entire week for the
first time. Some students were even so bold as to take a big
first step and say in front of hundreds of their peers that they wanted to commit to a relationship with Jesus.
What we love in Young Life is that we get to come home with our friends from camp, meet them at the "starting line" of their new journey with Jesus, and encourage them with the fact that we'll be there for them every step of the way. Thank you to the many faithful donors who made these trips accessible for our friends, and please continue to pray for them as they learn to "
walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls [them] into His own kingdom and glory." - (1 Thessalonians 2: 12)
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