Youth Camp 2013

This year's Youth Camp for older teens was held in the village of Akokoaso! We had about 20 campers from all over Ghana and Togo. The theme of the camp was "Warriors For Christ"!  We had great teaching from a variety of men, had fun and challenging activities, camp fires, etc.  We had a true village experience as Akokoaso has no running water or electricity and we topped off all the warrior challenges with a hike to a mountain in a nearby village. It was a long 4 hour hike led by Mr. Jeff Hostetter and a local camper as guide. We had a great team of volunteers from the church who helped everything to be a success. It was encouraging to see many develop their French abilities just to help communicate with our francophone Togo campers.
The Hike begins
Almost at the top of the mountain
Happy to be victorious Hikers!  Though some cried, some were carried, all fell several times, and most were exhausted; we were all strengthened in our character through this challenge.
Lesson time with Bruno from Togo - getting strengthened in the inner man through the Word!
Learning to collaborate and work as a team on challenges
The winning team - "The Amplifiers"!
Imagine a camp where you have to get all your water for bathing and cooking by bucket from a well
And where the cooking is done outdoors in huge cauldrons on a fire
Warriors dressed in armor made by their teammates
Coming through the Gauntlet
Victorious!
Human foosball game
Playing Extreme spoons
Packing up to head home
The highlight of the camp actually happened after we got back home to Kumasi... one of the young men decided to become a true Warrior for Christ and put on the helmet of SALVATION!  Daniel got immersed into Christ and we praised God that His Word truly yields fruit!
We are so thankful that our family is back in Ghana and was able to run this youth camp once again after several years of being absent due to lack of funding.  We truly appreciate every sacrifice others make for us to be here doing what we love doing - serving the Kingdom in Ghana - and we are so thankful that God provided the means to run this camp and that our family was able to be warriors for Christ (with a pregnant wife and three little kids it was personally challenging and character-building for us as well!).

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