The picture is beautiful. =) It looked like heaven to me.......
I had a great time at the camp. It was a wonderful experience, everyone and everybody accepted and embraced each one as how God has created them. It feels great! It feels "normal"!
Half of the campers had learning difficulties while the other half were the volunteer-helpers. I really loved the fellowship that we had at the camp. Its was amusing, fun and it blesses my heart seeing the campers enjoying themselves. They have such simple faith! Its beautiful!
While I was there, I was thinking..... would I really want inclusion? Would I really want the 10% of them included into our typical community? I'm afraid they might stick out so awkwardly like a sore thumb.....
I had a great time at the camp. It was a wonderful experience, everyone and everybody accepted and embraced each one as how God has created them. It feels great! It feels "normal"!
Half of the campers had learning difficulties while the other half were the volunteer-helpers. I really loved the fellowship that we had at the camp. Its was amusing, fun and it blesses my heart seeing the campers enjoying themselves. They have such simple faith! Its beautiful!
While I was there, I was thinking..... would I really want inclusion? Would I really want the 10% of them included into our typical community? I'm afraid they might stick out so awkwardly like a sore thumb.....
What I saw at the camp, was such wonderful picture. Each of the campers seems so at home, each of them seemed to understand and seemed belonged, no one was left out, or no one seemed obliviously out of place. Hehehe.... Some behaviours were amusing tho... Others were plain attention seeking.... Aren't we all like that some times? =)
And each helpers.... They are all people with beautiful heart touched by God. Really, never to judge a book by its cover. I think two of the volunteers were prolly ex-drug addicts, its really great to see how God used their lives to touch the campers lives. Its amazing to see what God can do.
My experience with my camper? =)
Hehehe.... I had fun time with her, tho most of the time was spent as her shadow. =P she hardly gives any eye contact by the way! hmmm...... She amazes me by answering questions really well academically, and remembering and repeating facts well. She amuses me sometimes, when I forget she needs minor prompting with organizing her stuffs. She blesses me, when she said "pls come back..." when I had to go for volunteers de-brief while she had to go to bed. Its lovely to know that my presence is acknowledged. Hehehe.... and the fact that i'm not just a shadow that incessantly follows her around. =P
4 days 3 nights, I enjoyed every bit of it.
I respect and give credits to their family members who takes care of them 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I don't know how they do it, but yea, respect!
Oh, the testimony! =D God bless their child like faith! Almost all of them want Jesus in their life! ;D Let's follow up!
And each helpers.... They are all people with beautiful heart touched by God. Really, never to judge a book by its cover. I think two of the volunteers were prolly ex-drug addicts, its really great to see how God used their lives to touch the campers lives. Its amazing to see what God can do.
My experience with my camper? =)
Hehehe.... I had fun time with her, tho most of the time was spent as her shadow. =P she hardly gives any eye contact by the way! hmmm...... She amazes me by answering questions really well academically, and remembering and repeating facts well. She amuses me sometimes, when I forget she needs minor prompting with organizing her stuffs. She blesses me, when she said "pls come back..." when I had to go for volunteers de-brief while she had to go to bed. Its lovely to know that my presence is acknowledged. Hehehe.... and the fact that i'm not just a shadow that incessantly follows her around. =P
4 days 3 nights, I enjoyed every bit of it.
I respect and give credits to their family members who takes care of them 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I don't know how they do it, but yea, respect!
Oh, the testimony! =D God bless their child like faith! Almost all of them want Jesus in their life! ;D Let's follow up!
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