time to blog
Well since the last time I blogged I have been at camp for a week (a somewhat boring week because we had a rental camp and then a small Wheeler camp). The next week began with a pool party at the Nelson home (Cal Nelson is the guy who hired me and I work with two of his sons, Adam and Jared). At the pool party we also had a team golf competition. The prize was a $10.00 chiles gift certificate. My team began the day with three people who had never played (me being one of them) more than putt putt and we ended by winning by 4 strokes. The rest of the week was spent at the community center in Indianapolis. It was a neat experience. We lived on the seventh floor in the dorms there. During the day we helped out with various activities at the mission. The guys and Karyn ran a basketball camp and the girls helped pick up kids for the camp and then helped with various other activities. Two of the days I went on home visits with a couple field workers. This meant three or four of us piled into a van and visited children who have been involved in club at the center. It was neat to see the environments that the kids with whom I have been working all summer come from. It was also difficult! I saw the shows that were watched in front of these children. Shows that I would never consider watching myself and children as young as 1 were in the room seeing them. I saw alcohol being used excessively. I even saw some drug use. This really made me think about the words of an 80 year old volunteer at camp. I was talking to this lady one day and she said "with the problems these people have in their lives it is a wonder that they are doing as well as they are. I would go and jump off a bridge if I had half the problems." That is so true! I cannot imagine growing up in that home life and experiencing those things and surviving it. Many wonder why so many kids coming from these environments begin a life of crime. Today I wonder why these kids don't begin sooner. I also wonder that we can be shocked by it. We admit that man is totally depraved. This totally depraved child begins life by seeing drug use and violence. What else can we expect but that this totally depraved child will have no respect for the law and begin a life of crime. Finally I am shocked that any of these kids come to faith in Christ and learn to lean on him. I know some kids who come from the worst of these homes who today are living their lives for Christ! What grace God shows man. To think that these people who are my friends could have followed the examples their parents set for them and begin a life of crime makes me realize that God has been gracious in my life. Well enough reflection on that.... One afternoon I was able to go putt putting with a group of pre schoolers....that was so much fun... if you have never seen little kids try to hit a golf ball you really need to have that experience. Well that week finally came to an end and it impressed on me more of a desire to spend my life working in the inner city. I got home about ten on Friday night. We had to leave my house around 6 on Saturday morning in order to be on time for my two o'clock meeting at Calvin for counselors. Calvin was good. I enjoyed seeing people I hadn't seen in awhile. Ted Donnelly's messages were challenging. I also had a wonderful time hanging out with the Jr. Highers (I was a jr high counselor) That is such a neat age and I loved it. Well that brings us up to the presant. Tomorrow I will head back to camp for my last week there... I cannot believe that summer is almost over and I will never be able to work at camp Hunt again (the Camp is changing to a Chemical addiction recovery program for men) Oh well we will have a good week and then we will go our seperate ways. I think many of us our planning on working at the community Center next year so we will see each other just in a different capacity. After camp ends I have a week before I have to head back to school.... I am excited about that I have missed my school friends this summer and am ready to see them again.... Well I will go nowOh and just a message to all who do ratings of people's blogs.... My blog was never meant to be updated reguarly....I don't have time... However when I do update I will give you a good over view of what has been happening in my life and careful consideration of the world...and this summer (as I have stated many times) I have access to computers seldomly.... have a nice day
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