water is heavy...

As a disclaimer I just want to thank everybody for bearing with me as it has been a month and a half since I have traveled to the blogging world. Camp is fun, exciting, fantastic, stressful, tiring, and truly a blessing all at the same time. Doing "Life Together" with the Passport community is one of the most special gifts I have ever received. However, doing life together can be time consuming and it can take practice and patience. I am finally at a place where I can take a breath, take in my surroundings, and really soak in all the wonderful things camp can give me. I have a feeling that camp this summer is really changing me...for the better. It really is the best job.

Life Together. That is the theme for camp this summer. As a Bible Study Leader I teach 5th and 6th graders what it means to Encounter Christ, Embrace Community, Extend Grace, and Empower on a weekly basis. I get to play football, make sweet potato cookies, paint masks, and run around like a kid myself at rec party. I am and will always be a Green Triangle. I have the task of being a friend, mentor, counselor, and eating buddy at all meal times. I also get to hang out with a bunch of great people (13 others to be exact) who all love their jobs as much as I do. We eat together, travel together, worship together, cry together, laugh together, go crazy together. This is what Life Together is all about (check out just how awesome our team is by these pictures!).

Camp hits you in many ways. As a person helping make the camp run, you encounter things that the campers may not. For example, we watch the same mission videos every week. By the end of this summer I will have watched them 7 times. You would think they would get old...but they don't. In fact there is one line of one video in particular that just strikes me every time I hear it. Our missions emphasis this year is Watering Malawi. It is an organization created to help empower the people of Malawi to have clean water solutions in their towns to help them with easier access, better schooling, irrigation systems, and much more. In one of the missions videos a line is said. The line is simple, only three small words. "Water is heavy". How can three simple words attach to me like that? I think it is because I teach my green triangles every week about loving your neighbor as yourself and empowering people. How can I and we as a nation love the people of Malawi and empower their gifts when they are having to give up their time to go walk for their water (which isn't always clean water), while I am here using clean water right out of the tap?  Water is heavy...

I do not have all of the answers to this problem, but I do know that this summer Passport campers and staff are really helping to make an impact on this problem. Life Together means helping showing the love of Christ through actions and words. I am so blessed to be a part of this community this summer. I love my team, I love my campers, I love what I am taking away from this place.

I pray that you all have a great rest of the week and that your journey is blessed. As you go about your day just remember and realize all the times that you use fresh clean water. Then think to yourself these three small words that carry such big meaning...water is heavy.

-Sara