This past week I joined youth and leaders from all over our district at Camp Crestview. It was a week full of amazing times of ministry, worship, teachings and lots of laughs. I have been going to Camp 
Crestview as a leader for the past 10 years and I have to say….this camp was my favorite by far. I went in to this week ready to do whatever was needed of me. I had no idea what that meant exactly….I was just ready to go and be used. After the first night of ministry to all the leaders I was so excited to see the youth get to camp and be ministered to. I just knew that the Lord wanted to speak to each camper that week.
On the second night of camp, the speaker asked the campers to stand if they felt abandoned, rejected or like a disappointment. By the time he asked those three things most of the camp was standing. I was blown away. Then, as leaders we had the amazing opportunity to pray over these young people. We were told to pray the opposite of abandonment, rejection and disappointment over them. As we started to see the young people coming through the tunnel of leaders, the Holy Spirit started giving us leaders words for each student. We began to pray intensely over each student and speak into their lives. I have never been more stretched in my life. I saw other leaders who had a word for every student that walked by them….and I wanted to do the same. I started asking the Lord to show me his heart for these young people….give me words to encourage them. Let me see them through His eyes. It was amazing how the Lord showed up. I began to hear the Lord tell me that I was going to pray over someone’s feet…so every set of feet that stepped into the prayer tunnel I looked at. After about 20 minutes, maybe even longer, I saw the feet I was to pray over. Immediately I fell to my knees and began to weep over him and pray for his every step. After I prayed over his feet, I got up and looked this camper in the face. He too was crying. The Lord told me to tell him that he was going to be a missionary and that he would be traveling all over the world to places he hasn’t even heard of to share the love of the Lord to others. I was so blessed to be used by the Lord to pray over these campers. To watch them come in to the tunnel of prayer looking one way and watch their faces after they were prayed for was so beautiful. You could see on each campers face that the Lord had spoken directly to them and that the things of this world, the lies of the enemy had been broken off and that they were walking in the truth that the Lord had spoken over them. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life!
The theme of camp this year was “Known”. On the last night of camp each camper received a piece of cardboard and a black marker. On one side of the cardboard they were to write what they were known as when they came to camp. On the other side they were to write what they were now known as. I was sitting in the back with some of the leaders watching each camper go across the stage, while the worship team was playing, and they would show one side and then the other. I sat there weeping because of the change the Lord had done in each of their lives. I saw one cardboard say that she was know as a Pastor’s Kid and now she is known as a Pastor. One said she came to camp known as Worthless and now she is known as Priceless.
The amazing work the Lord did at camp this past week will not be forgotten. I was changed just as much as each student that came to camp. I pray now for each camper that they would not listen to the lies of the enemy that would come at them, but that they would walk out the truth and promises God has given them this past week!!
Crestview as a leader for the past 10 years and I have to say….this camp was my favorite by far. I went in to this week ready to do whatever was needed of me. I had no idea what that meant exactly….I was just ready to go and be used. After the first night of ministry to all the leaders I was so excited to see the youth get to camp and be ministered to. I just knew that the Lord wanted to speak to each camper that week.On the second night of camp, the speaker asked the campers to stand if they felt abandoned, rejected or like a disappointment. By the time he asked those three things most of the camp was standing. I was blown away. Then, as leaders we had the amazing opportunity to pray over these young people. We were told to pray the opposite of abandonment, rejection and disappointment over them. As we started to see the young people coming through the tunnel of leaders, the Holy Spirit started giving us leaders words for each student. We began to pray intensely over each student and speak into their lives. I have never been more stretched in my life. I saw other leaders who had a word for every student that walked by them….and I wanted to do the same. I started asking the Lord to show me his heart for these young people….give me words to encourage them. Let me see them through His eyes. It was amazing how the Lord showed up. I began to hear the Lord tell me that I was going to pray over someone’s feet…so every set of feet that stepped into the prayer tunnel I looked at. After about 20 minutes, maybe even longer, I saw the feet I was to pray over. Immediately I fell to my knees and began to weep over him and pray for his every step. After I prayed over his feet, I got up and looked this camper in the face. He too was crying. The Lord told me to tell him that he was going to be a missionary and that he would be traveling all over the world to places he hasn’t even heard of to share the love of the Lord to others. I was so blessed to be used by the Lord to pray over these campers. To watch them come in to the tunnel of prayer looking one way and watch their faces after they were prayed for was so beautiful. You could see on each campers face that the Lord had spoken directly to them and that the things of this world, the lies of the enemy had been broken off and that they were walking in the truth that the Lord had spoken over them. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life!
The theme of camp this year was “Known”. On the last night of camp each camper received a piece of cardboard and a black marker. On one side of the cardboard they were to write what they were known as when they came to camp. On the other side they were to write what they were now known as. I was sitting in the back with some of the leaders watching each camper go across the stage, while the worship team was playing, and they would show one side and then the other. I sat there weeping because of the change the Lord had done in each of their lives. I saw one cardboard say that she was know as a Pastor’s Kid and now she is known as a Pastor. One said she came to camp known as Worthless and now she is known as Priceless.
The amazing work the Lord did at camp this past week will not be forgotten. I was changed just as much as each student that came to camp. I pray now for each camper that they would not listen to the lies of the enemy that would come at them, but that they would walk out the truth and promises God has given them this past week!!
