Voice and Heart of Jim Nagy

We are on Day 6 of camp and it seems like we just started. As with other days here God did not disappoint.

Our day started as usual with leaders doing our own devotions with a cup of coffee or tea while our younger teammates sleep in. As a group we always have breakfast (all our meals I guess) together, then team devos and off to school to camp. Today started out cloudy and grey today but later this afternoon it started raining and it’s still coming down at 10:30 pm.

Like every morning we get to school we get our classrooms ready for English class. Once that’s done I got the early students into a hot game of 4-square.  Then we have a morning segment that consisted of our camp dance, a quick game and team score update (go Team Green). After that we are off to our first hour of English lessons while working God into conversations too. We all take a break for donuts and hang. Then back to the classrooms for more Advanced English. Megan and I are teaching a very sharp class who seem to already know a lot of what we are teaching. This is when it’s good to be flexible and adjust the study sheets to make things a little more interesting for our Polish students. And yeah, they have thanked us for that. Then it’s lunchtime, workshops (we had archery, football, duct tape creations and jewelry. Tomorrow, I’m teaching a beginners’ cartooning workshop, should be a blast.  

Lunch, then we played on the gym floor a card game Ligretto only the cards were 2 feet by 1 feet and we had to run them across the gym to put them in the right pile-lots of fun! Then the students and us get to enjoy some free time together. Then back to the main room for evening program. Abby spoke of the Upside down kingdom of Christ compared to the world here on earth. Very powerful stuff. The evening was filled with songs, a faith story and Abby’s talk of how Jesus is our connection back to God to bridge the gap over sin, again great stuff.  Again, a great way to set up our night where everyone would be going through a Labyrinth (a 5-station time of worship and prayer where God is working in our lives). As stated earlier, God did not disappoint, some accepted Christ into their lives some were not quite sure and needed to pray and talk about it some more. We have been reminded that we won’t always get to see the fruit from a seed that God allowed us to plant, but we got to see some tonight! He is good!

Then back to our Hotel, dinner debrief and to our room to peck this out. Please continue to pray that God guides us where he wants to go and who to talk to as we continue to do his work here.

God Bless! God First!

-Jim