Sometimes it feels like we have been here for 6 months, other times 5 minutes. Tonight was our last event- a camp-wide carnival full of games and balloons and prizes! The community gathers around and joins the fun-people everywhere. Tomorrow is our last official day of class- graduation is Thursday morning. The kids are getting sentimental, taking pictures and bringing gifts. So sweet. We bring the light, we invest as we can-up front and behind the scenes, we lift up this city and these dear people. We laugh, we cry, we take emails and vow to keep in touch. And when we get home our in-boxes are filled with awkward little notes from our students, missing us and telling us the news. Technology has become a ministry tool-amazing.
The H/S is moving in many ways, we are all being stretched and changed- remember us for these next 6 days or so. Angie and Justin have to go straight to college literally the day we return so we can't afford any flight delays or missed flights or crazy weather. And, of course, the rest of us have to get back to work and life so we need good travel as well.
Hang on- there is currently a mob of crazed college kids trampling into our room looking for water ballons and other pranking material. I better go before I wind up taped to my bed or something worse. As you can tell, CampX is a wild place- one minute you are trying to tell the Christmas story and the next someone is making a yarn maze in your bedroom! Good night from the other side of the world. (Did I mention the heat has turned into a chilly breeze with highs in the 70's. Sorry about the current heat wave in OH! I know, I know- it is even worse in Beijing, let me gloat while I can! )
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