Ciao Bella!

June 12-19 we took a group of 16 high schoolers from Heidelberg to join about 250 other students from American military bases around Europe to Livorno, Italy for a week long camp. From June 21-28 we took 30 middle schoolers to join about 300 other students back to the same camp. We slept in tents and enjoyed some amazing sites and a great speaker who shared God's love with them. The weeks activities included visits to the cities of Lucca, Pisa and Cinque Terre (which is actually 5 cities along the Mediterranean connected by a train). We also spend 2 days at the beach and 1 day at a water park. In the evenings we had club with funny skits, silly songs and an amazing speaker, Bill Paige. We also took our students to a carnival, a "county fair" (which was really just a chance for the students to dunk, pie or "shave" their leaders....it was a lot of messy fun), an entertainment night where all of the leaders performed in funny skits for the students, as well as a big block party dance the last night. We also had "tent time" every night were we really got down to the heart of the week and were able to ask our students the tough questions and see where they really were in a small group setting. At the end of high school week approximately 40 kids committed their lives to Christ and around 50 committed or recommitted their lives during middle school week. It was an amazing (and exhausting) 2 weeks but completely worth it! Thank you for your continued prayers and support. I still can't believe that God is allowing me to do this and I'm so excited that you can be a part of it!