I thought I'd post an update from Matthew Lundy, former Youth Intern, for those of you interested in what he's been up to. Pretty cool ministry! Note his request for prayer at the end.
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In the pine forests of rural North Carolina lies Cameron Boys Camp. A branch of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina, Cameron Boys Camp is a therapeutic wilderness camp designed to reconcile troubled boys and their families. For the last year, I have been working at the camp as a counselor (aka: Chief) in the Trailblazer group. My group, ages 12 to 14, live in primitive shelters that we build out of pine logs and heavy tarps.
Campers learn relationship building, personal hygiene, wood carving, cooking, and many other practical life skills.
Camp is also a fully accredited alternative school. Aside from the standard reading, writing, and math, academic activities include menu planing, budgeting, and hands on studies of nature. Our field trips have included a month long, 250 mile canoe trip from the Okefenokee Swamp, down the Suwanee River, to the Gulf of Mexico.
You can be in prayer for me and my fellow counselors, the campers and their families, and the camp for girls that is set to open in the next six months.
I have included several pictures. One of the tent that I live in, one of my group on the Suwanee River, and one of me building a tent at the girls camp.
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