Last day of Camp!

     From the heart and voice of Ellie Just::       

This morning we took our last walk to the school, as today was our last day of camp. I think we all have mixed feelings about it ending. I know we all want to stay and continue to be servants of God and watch the seeds grow that have been planted, but we are also excited to let God take the reins from here and head home to our families. Today was all about having fun, laughing, talking, and building relationships that will hopefully be in our hearts forever. The morning started off with the camp dance!! (so fun, the campers loved it) Then egg, chicken, dinosaur, prince, king, basically a harder and more fun version of rock, paper, scissors! After that we were off to our final English class. Everyone had a great class, I think more fun activities were happening than lessons. The second part of class was the best, it was their turn to teach us! Zach and I were taught polish for about 30 minutes and it was crazy. It was so hard, but they loved that we tried so hard. They also made fun of our Minnesotan accents. Lunch time came and the team spent most of the time sorting and organizing all of our bins that are kept here at Domi’s house with supplies for camp each year. Off to workshops we went, I spent the hour making friendship bracelets, it was a time of great fellowship with a lot of the campers. The girls had a great time!! Then it was time for the long awaited soccer game, American vs Poles. We thought we were going to get rocked, but we actually didn’t lose too bad, 3-2!! Finally it was time to wrap up the week. We headed in and watched the entire slideshow of pictures of the week, laughs were had and tears were shed. And the winning team was announced, the Powerful Purples took home the gold, none of us are sure how that happened, haha!! All the teams did so great this week! Now it was time to say our goodbyes. We were so sad to say goodbye but so grateful for all the relationships that were created this week. All I can say is that it was your typically Minnesota goodbye J The campers left and we cleaned the school that provided us with so many great memories this past week. We gathered once again for dinner at the church, we were provided with a great meal and another night of fantastic fellowship with one another. We took time to debrief the entire week, what went well, and not so well (there wasn’t many of those). Then we took time to give thanks to our mighty creator, the one who made this whole camp happen. Now we are all sitting in our lobby of the hotel, us and the Polish youth team. I am sitting behind this screen writing to you all and I wish you all could hear what I am hearing. Great conversations about life and families, pictures being shown, cards game being played and the love of God completely radiating from every single one of them. The love for God that these amazing people completely takes my breath away. I want to thank God for placing these people in my life, I have made friendships that will last forever. I want to thank all our family and friends back home who have spiritually been with us through prayer as we embarked on this journey. We only have a couple days left and we are going to enjoy one last day in Skoczow tomorrow with the polish youth team, we finally get to have pizza, and then to Krakow on Monday morning to enjoy some tourist “things”.  Even though camp is done we still need prayers to be sent. Please be in prayer for

-       the polish youth team

-       Domi!! For she is the Polish fearless leader!

-       Pray for the seeds that have been planted in the hearts of some of these campers, may they continue to grow in their faith with Jesus Christ

-       Please pray for our travels to Krakow and then back home, as we have a very long travel day and many layovers.