" WOW that is so cool!" at Camp Arnes...

Hello once again friends and family!


It’s Shereen back on blogging duty to report all the amazing things God has done this week at Camp Arnes! So we arrived Sunday afternoon after a pretty long drive from Caronport to a very hospitable facility. Let’s just say we were pretty pampered all week and blessed in so many ways by the Arnes staff and volunteers. We were basically given hotel rooms with our own bathrooms and laundry service. This was all fine and dandy but some of us were feeling a little discouraged because of not being in the cabins with the campers, so connecting was a little difficult. But nonetheless God gave us amazing opportunities to connect with some kids in our dance workshops! So back in Redberry we had about 20 kids who signed up for every workshop, at Arnes we had 2 kids in the morning workshop and 3 in the afternoon. We prayed A LOT about how to do these workshops and seeking God’s will in them. And let’s just say they turned out to be AMAZING!! The morning workshop consisted of 2 girls who were very optimistic and gave us the marvelous idea of doing a NINJA DANCE! Might I add that this dance turned out to be EPIC and we got the chance to perform it before our big show. The afternoon workshop consisted of about 3 special needs kids and their helpers. These special needs kids were such a blessing to our team, and we cannot express how much we appreciated these kids. They were so amazing and absolutely loved music and of course the dancing. God especially gave me a huge heart for these kids and just watching them dance brought us soo much joy!

So on Monday night we were scheduled to do one character from our show “Want More” and perform at chapel. The night proceeded with some worship but what we didn’t know was that there was a huge storm going on outside! All the kids were either in the Wigwam ( chapel) or the dining hall. The storm caused the power to cut out during worship but everyone continued to sing and praise God without music! So since there was no power we couldn’t perform but God had other plans. When chapel was over we went outside to quickly find out that the storm had knocked over trees everywhere and even lifted half of a roof off a building! There was quite a bit of damage but all of the kids’ cabins, the Wigwam and the dining hall were safe! Nobody had a clue that all of this was going on during chapel, but even then God kept everyone safe!

Another cool thing that we noticed at Camp Arnes was the amount of DRAGONFLIES everywhere!!! All summer we have been eaten alive by mosquitoes the size of cats and have been praying that God would send dragonflies to eat them! And He did! These dragonflies overpopulated the whole camp and we never had to worry about mosquitoes or mosquito spray. Praise the LORD!!


And thanks to the Arnes staff many of us got to the opportunity to get over our fear of HEIGHTS! They had an amazing high ropes course and zip line. They were UNREAL! They were about 20 to 30 feet off the ground, and once we were harnessed in we had to climb the pole all the way to the top and concur different obstacles. They were soo much fun and we were soo incredibly blessed by the Arnes staff.

Well that was our week in a nutshell, God did incredible things and still continues to do so! We would really appreciate if you guys could pray for strength and energy for the team as this camp tour is coming close to an end, and also a zeal to serve the Lord in whatever He calls us to do. God is good and this tour is proof of that! Thanks for following the blog and your prayers! We greatly appreciate it!

Your sister in Christ,
Shereen