Monday July 6

Today the "real" camp at Urban Family Center started. We showed up at about 9:00 AM to help set things up. This week is Asian-themed, so we hung up a few things to represent that. The kids didn't really start to show up until about 12:00. There were a little over 20 of them. We played games and did some crafts with them to keep them occupied. We weren't able to go outside because it was a little chilly, and it was sprinkling on and off.

We had dinner and a little bit of free time when we came back to the dorm. Then we met to talk about one of the Transferable Concepts, How You Can Love by Faith. Mindy led the group tonight, and she did a great job. Afterward, Tom told the story of Hosea and Gomer from the book Hosea in the Bible. Though I've heard it a couple of times already, it was still really good to hear. Because we are learning how to love by faith, Tom told us to go talk with God without any interruptions for an hour. Each of us found a spot to concentrate, then started. We wrote down a list of names of people that are hard to love in our lives. Then we prayed for each of them and asked God to allow us to love them by our faith in Him. I think it was something that we all needed right now.

When I finished praying, I started reading "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. I've heard wonderful things about it, so I picked it up at Mars Hill yesterday. I was only able to read the introduction tonight, but I like it so far.