Youth Camp 2007 was super! Our Dar es Salaam area churches took 90 youth and 14 leaders to Bagamoyo, where we rented secondary school facilities for the week. “Maili ya Pili” was the theme, meaning “The Second Mile,” based on Matthew 5:38-42.
Games and competitions included Big Ball Volleyball, Digging for Treasure (with your head buried in flour) and the huge water slide into the Indian Ocean.
This year we brought in professional tradesmen from our churches to teach the youth the basics of electricity, masonry, sewing, cake baking and decorating, and more. Handcraft times were also a big hit.
But the highlight of camp was the great services morning and evening when the youth performed skits, choir numbers, and sermon preaching, followed by challenging teaching from the Word of God. Missionary Greg Wagoner was our camp speaker this year. He did a great job of challenging the youth to go the extra mile in every area of life.
By the end of the week five young people accepted Christ as Savior, nine professed a calling of God on their lives to be in the ministry, and many other decisions were made. We came back to Dar exhausted, but grateful for such a fruitful and blessed week of camp.
By the end of the week five young people accepted Christ as Savior, nine professed a calling of God on their lives to be in the ministry, and many other decisions were made. We came back to Dar exhausted, but grateful for such a fruitful and blessed week of camp.
