CampLIFE in General

For CampLIFE, children are chosen from the compounds by Disciple Leaders that are at the compounds' LCAs.  This is a place that ususally includes the school and another building where the children come for activities, for school work, or just to feel safe.  The leaders get to know these children as best they can.  They then identify those children that are most at risk for CampLIFE.  At CampLIFE they have the opportunity to have one on one time with their counselor so that counselor can help them by finding a sponsor or maybe even having them move to Family Legacy's permanent residence.  Basically, we become an advocate for the children in our group.  This year both Kevin and I had 5 of our children from last year and they are all already sponsored, but obviously still in some really difficult situations.  In my group I also had Martha, a young lady that we just began sponsoring a couple of months ago.  The bottom line though is that out of my 10 girls, 9 were already sponsored.  Juliet is the only one that needs a sponsor and we will get that done.  All of our children were from Kanyama 2 compound.  It is a huge blessing to see the kids growth since they have been in such a good school.  Kevin's boys were a little older and his concern for a couple of the oldest is that they may only make it to 8th grade before turning 18.  We are anxious to find out what we can do for them after that. 
On a daily basis we had 2 small group sessions and 1 large group sessions.  Other time was spent with a little recreation (dodge ball with a sock ball was my group's favorite thing, Kevin's was anything with a soccerball), blessing times and time learning the Evangecube demonstration.  When they learned about sharing the Gospel, we also encouraged them to pray with others so they would feel comfortable doing that in their community.  Also to help them memorize the verse for camp that week, I made some word cards so they could use them as a game.  They loved that!  For blessing times, along with my Evangelist (partner) I was able to dig deeper into each girls lives.  I asked about their home life - who they lived with, how many meals a day, who was sick, what kind of work a parent does.  Then I asked about school and what they dreamed of being when they grew up.  It was amazing to hear such different answers from last year when they didn't have much school in their lives.  They now want to be doctors, nurses & teachers. 

Below are a few pictures from our groups.