Cammie's Young Life Staff Adventure!

Kickin’ it Old School Club! The night was full of finger jousting, the famous Light and Fluffy skit, songs, dancing and In N Out afterwards!

link 14/11/2011 — 6 months ago

We had an incredible Glow in the Dark Club in an airplane hanger. Yep, you heard right, an AIRPLANE hanger. Everyone dressed up in white (so the black lights could do their magic), grabbed a few provided glowsticks (we had hundreds!), put their dancing pants on and had a magical night. We had DJ Doug come spin some records and photographer Scott English come to document the night. There were so many kids there I couldn’t even count them. My educated guess-timation is between 190-200! Praise the Lord. We had a blast of a time playing musical knees, glow stick volleyball and listening to one of my best friends and team members, Allison Hatasaki, speak about how wonderful Jesus Christ is. SO GOOD!

Teaching YL girls how to do “The Bernie” was one of my favorite parts of the night!

link 1 14/11/2011 — 6 months ago

Here are some pictures from Club on October 3rd. We’ve been averaging around 100-120 kids every week! It’s been so fun getting to hang out with all the kids at Corona. They are just so cool!

link 06/10/2011 — 8 months ago

Club at Corona Del Sol has been off to a great start! Here are some pics from Club on September 26th! Enjoy!

link 30/09/2011 — 8 months ago

Journal Party

I had a journal making party today with some of the beautiful girls I just got back from camp with. It was so fun! We talked and laughed, ate pizza and drank 44 ounce Circle K cups of whatever their choosing. We cut up magazines and peeled off stickers, got our fingers covered in Mod Podge and impatiently dried our journal covers with a blow dryer so we could work on the back sooner. It was so special to do these things with my Lil Mammas and even more so that it was in my home. I’m so honored that they wanted to come over and spend their precious time with me creating things that they will (hopefully) use on the daily to continue growing their relationship with our Heavenly Father. Here are some pictures:

Us at the craft table I set up in my living room!

The finished products!

This one is just awesome. :) How funny?!

I love being able to sit and spend life with my girls. I love pouring into their lives and being able to watch them learn and grow. One of the many amazing things about this ministry though is that it is SO two-sided. My Lil Mammas teach me so much. They show me so much. They challenge me so often! Even today at our journal party I was challenged to create something that actually meant something to me…

Here is a picture of the journal I made today:

In my battle to create a journal cover today, I put so much thought into not only what I wanted to do but WHY I wanted to do those things. Here is what I came up with:

Everyday I want to remember that the Lord (and His promises) are looking at me FROM and FOR eternity. That I need to trust in His will and remember that He isn’t in a hurry. That He is not concerned about how fast I grow but about how strong I grow.

I want to remember to live simply and figure out what that REALLY means.

I want to daily remember that my worth is not in how people see or perceive me but in the knowledge and love that the Lord knitted me together exactly as I am and calls me His own.

I want to remember to keep some sort of Sabbath. To have “beautiful rest” in my Father even when things seem to be spiraling out of control… and when they’re not.

Lastly, I want to be real. I want to be honest not only with the Lord (because who are we kidding, He already knows everything about me) but with my community as well.

Decorating journals with my girls today was more than just something to do. It was thought provoking, a learning experience, a holy time and so, so sweet. Praise the Lord for all that He does and all that He is doing and will do. I love that He uses lazy summer days full of glue and ripped up magazines to reveal His beauty and love to me.

Updates from camp are soon to follow!

link 2 25/07/2011 — 10 months ago

Crickets

I have never really liked crickets. They’re shady, have creepy eyes, and you never know which way they’re gonna go. And what happens when you get a bunch of them in one place? They croak (or whatever noise crickets make) so loud and so consistently that it used to make me want to rip my ears clean off my little head.

Praise the Lord though that He can so quickly change my thoughts from ripping my ears off to only hearing beauty… During the 10 minutes of quiet at Wyld Life camp last week the crickets were going CRAZY! All in unison, LOUD, invading cricket noises. Needless to say, with my before mentioned feelings toward crickets, I wanted God to strike them all down at once so they wouldn’t distract the kids from talking to Him. INSTEAD, the Lord said, “I want my children to be like crickets.” What?! Why on earth would You want Your children to be like Crickets? “So they can sing of My love for them, together, and be heard across the nations!” In that moment that annoying cricket pulse turned into one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard. To picture all my girls, all my brothers and sisters in Christ, singing about Gods glory loud enough to command all the nations attention and to have them LISTEN brought tear of hope and joy to my eyes. Here is what I wrote:

link 25/07/2011 — 10 months ago

SUMMER CAMP!

link 16/07/2011 — 10 months ago

For the last three weeks I served as the lifeguard at the wonderful Lost Canyon (the Young Life camp in Williams, AZ). The Lord provided in so many crazy ways while I was there in my life and in the lives of the people I was surrounded by. This is just one of the moments and happy shouts I could tell y’all about…

The special music for the session was done by an artist named Ryan Long and if you don’t know his music you should start now. He has a song called “Change Me” that he taught to the campers every week and it goes like this:

Never seen the trees so tall 
never seen the mountains at all 
Now that Im here I cant stop my trembling hands
Never seen the water so clear
Never seen people so fearless
Never have I felt so alive

I dont wanna to cry now bout where I've been
I just wanna try now to start again

I wanna tear off the rooftops so maybe I can see you in the sky 
I wanna catch every raindrop and watch the shadows from my eyes 
I just wanna live my life like it was meant to be
change me (where I stand)
change me (take my hand)

[Repeat the whole song]

change me, change me, where I stand
change me, change me, take my hand

The first week I was there I recorded this video. It was the last day of camp for these campers and they were getting ready to go back home. Some to loving families but a lot to broken homes, struggles, and abuse. When they started singing though there was just something so breathtaking about it. There were 300+ kids singing but it was like I could hear every kids individual voice calling out to the Lord that they wanted Him to change them, change them. AH! Needless to say, after being able to witness such an incredible sight, I starting crying. I felt like the Lord was reminding me that He hears EVERY SINGLE ONE of those kids prayers, cries and songs. He loves them INDIVIDUALLY and in such a special way. It was so holy, so sweet. It is something I will always remember.

link 1 27/06/2011 — 11 months ago

A few months ago KMS Wyld Life had a garage sale to raise money for summer camp and it went pretty well. (We raked in a couple hundred dollars!) It was so cool to see how hard some of our kids worked to raise money for camp. They ran around talking to customers and carrying things for them and they got to tell them WHY they were doing what they were doing which was an amazing sight to see.

Some people bought a lot, some people stole a lot and some people just came and donated to our cause or bought raffle tickets. Despite the stealing, it was an encouraging morning. :)

link 1 27/06/2011 — 11 months ago

This is my Wyld Life team (From left to right: Amy, Mandy, Shelley, (me), Terrence and Jordan).

They are OH so wonderful. I can’t even begin to explain to you guys how much these sweet people mean to me. God has graced our team with so many different personalities, so many different ways of loving people, so many different ways of interacting with kids, so many different ways of expressing ourselves, so many different everythings! We are all SO different and I think that’s why it works so well.

It really does blow my mind some times to think about how well we get along. Now, I’m not saying we don’t have our issues (because everybody does) but what I am saying is that being around this specific group of people has encouraged me in so many unexpected ways.

They’re always there. They’re always present. They are always encouraging. Even when we all feel like crap, don’t feel like doing anything, want to go home and are in terrible moods, we can come together to pray to and worship the Lord and it is so special. It is so sweet. I trust them so much.

I thank the Lord for putting these beautiful people in my life. I love each one of them dearly and it means the world to me that God has set us all on the same mission to share the Gospel with the kids at KMS.

link 27/04/2011 — 1 year ago