Outdoor Ed ’11

Outdoor Education Week 2011 is now history.  Walter is still wrapping up the final details and finances.  It was a very busy but wonderful time.  We had three different sites: the beach site, reef site and volcano island.  The kids were divided up into three traveling squads and traveled to each site with their group.  The beach site was the main site where everyone came the first night then left from there to the other sites and returned in between sites.  At the beach site, the children went to a school for a ministry with VBS and games (they were usually in charge of games and handing out gospel bracelets), and then they cooked their own chicken dinner (starting with a live chicken).  At the reef site, the kids snorkeled and some scuba dived and were able to see and study some marine life.  At the volcano island, they hiked to see various things like fumaroles, mud pots (bubbling mud) and other things on a volcano, including sulfur in the lake. Walter was able to visit all the sites during the week in reverse order of the kids so was able to see all the different squads during the week.  He was in charge to see that everything ran smoothly and bills were paid.  Each night there was a speaker who challenged the kids from God’s Word.  It was a fun and safe, healthy week (I was camp nurse).  At the ministry site, 97 kids and 8 parents prayed to receive Christ and the local pastor will be following up on them.  Pray for the many decisions made for Christ, both with the Filipino school and our own middle school kids.

We are almost back to normal and caught up on most of our sleep.  This Saturday, Walter, Ashley and Juliana leave for Guam for the Far East basketball tournament with the DODDS schools for one week.  Pray for safety both on and off the court and for a good testimony with the other schools.

Thanks for praying for us.

In Christ,

Cheryl for the Spicers