Hume Lake

We have been attending Twin Falls Reformed Church now for about 4 years. It reminds me a lot of the church that I grew up in and they have such a great children's program. This year we decided to send the Girls to Hume Lake Church Camp with the junior high church group. It is located in California, just outside of Fresno in the mountains. The Girls in the past few years have been going to Luther Heights church camp close by, but we really wanted something more for the Girls this year and had heard such amazing things about this camp. Its quite expensive and they are gone for 9 days. For the past several months there have been fundraisers. One was a big fiesta dinner at the church and the other was "Flocking". This was a lot of fun. You go around to peoples houses and place yard flamingos in their lawn with a note asking for donations. This is done at night so nobody can see you do it. Then people wake up the next morning with flamingos in their yard. Pretty cute! Anyways, the girls went this past week. Not only did they have a blast during the camp with all their activities, but they built stonger relationships, not only with church member friends, but with God. I am mostly writing this post to tell you about Jordan's experience. She said that during worship time, people would sing and raise their hands. She said that she wasn't into doing that and that she just wasn't feeling it. She said the next day she really felt it and said, heck, I don't care what people think, I'm gonna raise my hands. I thought that was cute. The next event was her one on one time with Kelly Vriesman, the counselor from our church and the pastors daughter. They talked about baptism and setting goals. She set 2 goals. One was to read a few verses from the bible each night before she goes do bed and the other is to attend more Wednesday night church events with the junior high group. She didn't know what to think about the baptism conversation, so I told her that when she was ready we could talk more serious about it, but not to rush. I want her to choose it on her own, not because she was persuaded to. The third and most special event that took place for her at camp was a story she told her fellow cabin mates. She told the story about her and Logan as babies. She remembered that she struggled breathing and eating as a premature baby on her own, so the nurses decided to place Logan in the same isolet with Jordan. Shortly after that took place, Jordan started to progress. She and the rest of our family always said and thought, wow your sister helped you get better Jordan, but Jordan realized that it was God that made her better. She said she started to cry, so her friends hugged her to make her feel better. Gosh, just writing this, makes me tear up. What a special, "Jesus" moment. I hope and I am sure she will always remember that moment for the rest of her life. I hope that Logan will see this and feel that spirit some day as well. AMEN!
P.S. every year there is a theme. The kids have to dress up using that theme one night, so the girls all decided to be the 7 dwarfs, so within 48 hours I made 7 dwarf costumes. Here is Logan as "Sneezy".