Nick Strong

Well what exactly do you say after neglecting to say anything for over a month.  How do you speak your mind after not speaking it for weeks.  Well, I guess I can start with recent happenings.  I have been doing camps camps and more camps since school has been out. 

 Soccer camp was a hit.  It was the easiest camp and the camp that people were most excited about.  We learned many new things and the week of soccer culminated into a game against the coaches and the parents.  A good time was had by all and then it was on to baseball camp.

Baseball camp was interesting.  How do you teach kids who have never caught or hit before how to…catch and hit.  It didn’t matter the nationality, even the Americans kids struggled, those who haven’t been back to the states much that is.  Baseball camp was brought to an end with a slip-n-slide.  I thought that the best way to teach them how to slide was to have a slip-n-slide.  The kids loved it and we coaches even got into a little bit.

 Basketball camp was probably the least successful.  The kids were tired of having camp and maybe even the coaches were tired of it as well.  We never really did get the game of basketball.  Maybe we can work on our skills and practice a little bit more before basketball camp next year.

We are currently in Bible camp this week.  It is only the middle three days of this week so today was day one.  We had a good time and learned lots of new songs and games.  Hopefully we learned something about the Bible as well.  The theme is Heroes so we are learning about different heroes of the Bible like Moses-today, Esther- Wednesday, and Jesus-Thursday.   Hopefully the rest of Bible camp goes as well as it did today.

From there my summer takes off in a hurry.  Below is a ruff outline of the rest of my summer:

- Next week off to Mbale for our field retreat with all of the missionaries

- 10 Days in Kenya: traveling around seeing people and also going to a 7 Habits of Highly Affective People Conference

- Going up to Arua for a week and from there traveling into Sudan for 4 days to do pastors trainings with the missionaries.

- Then school starts.

Please pray for safety in travel and also for a good break from the regular routine while I am galavanting around the countryside.   I am weary and tired.  I need rest but more than that I need a new and fresh filling of the Holy Spirit.  Thank you for your prayers during this time.