The Fun of Camp

The past couple days we had a short retreat at Rizal Re-Creation Center. It is always fun for us to go there and relax and be in the midst of a camping ministry. I was reminded of going to camp as a kid growing up. In my youth when we lived in Wisconsin, I went to Camp Chetek. I will never forget the missionary hour at that camp. For about 1 hour every day, a missionary who worked in Japan talked to us kids. He showed us maps and items from that country and his children sang songs for us in Japanese. It all made a huge impression on me and it may be that it was at that camp that I began to hear God's calling on my life to be a missionary. I long to see churches today keep the missions vision before their children. It is at a very young age when God may call children to begin in the direction of missions. I seemed to know I was called for the next several years because I looked for more opportunities to hear missionaries or nationals from other countries share with me about their far and foreign land and how they bring the Gospel to the people.