Yesterday we split the team into two groups, one headed to the camp to spend time with the kids and the other travelled four hours to a different town to speak at a counselor training session. I joined the group to the counselor training place and boy was it fun. We woke at 5am to get ready to leave since we had such a long drive ahead of us. I'll try and post a new highway driving video tomorrow so that you'll get to see the fun at higher speeds! Within the first hour Andy is doubled over out the window. I was alarmed at first since you don't want to stick anything out the window, let alone half your body. But breakfast was coming to visit him again, so it was best that he did that out the window. When we arrived at the training site we were whisked inside and up onto the stage where all 360 counselors could see us. They asked us to share our testimonies and sing some songs. The most impacting thing about the time was watching the churches leave the training session. Each church sent four counselors (many pastors said that lots more wanted to come, but IBCM limits it to four so that they can have room for all the people in the training sessions) and the pastor comes to pick them up at the end of the 3 day training. This is the time where IBCM distributes the funding for the camps and the material to be used. This camping concept is so streamlined and simple. It's a surreal picture seeing four counselors and a pastor walking away carrying the bags of material and sports equipment as they prepare to run a camp for 50 kids that next week.
The team is doing well. We're taking some time to rest tonight and tomorrow morning before we head to another counselor training for another 280 counselors in Trichy. We're going hard, so please pray that God will sustain our strength.
I continue to update the photo's, so feel free to view those to see more of what we're doing.
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