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Camp - Part One (God of the Impossible)

 I didn't get to send anything out last week because it was really busy. So, I am going to give it to you in "small" chunks this week so that you don't miss all of the fun that we had. But I have to back up a few months to show you how God blessed the three days of Kid's Camp.

In July a cottage had been reserved for the Camp. We had made a sizeable deposit to reserve it and were excited about the "discount" that the caretaker had given us. As it turned out, it was a "five-finger discount." The caretaker was a crook. She took our money and dissapeared and we didn't find out about the scam until just a week before we were to use the cottage!

However, God blessed in a really neat way and we saw Him open an impossible door so that we were able to use the cottage after all. But because of the confusion we had to change the dates of the retreat. Imagine doing that at your church! OK kids, sorry but summer camp has been moved up a week! OH MY!


 Another seemingly insurmountable problem had cropped up along with the date change. The weather has been horrible lately! In fact our last non-rain day was December 30! Everything is soggy and moldy and many parts of the city are flooded. But our God is in charge of schedules and weather, among other things! Would you believe that He stopped the rain for the three days of the camp? Well almost. Two of the three days were dry and the third day we had some sprinkles but on that day we played in the mud. I'll give you some more details tomorrow!

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