Last week I attended the Family Bible Camp of the Churches of Christ in Croatia (the 4th camp of my summer, whew!), along with others from our church in Zagreb. For me there were three highlights. One was Tesa’s baptism. I have know Tesa all her life and over the last year she has been involved in our youth ministry activities. Another highlight was that our church hosted at the camp all eight of the Ukrainian orphans we have been helping. They are in the photo above, in front of their cabin at the camp, along with our co-worker Iva, who has been working closely with them. These kids got to see and experience life inside a Christian community that week, in addition to receiving great teaching, such as: “You are worth the life of Jesus.” Some of these kids came away from the experience wanting to know more about what that means, and what it means to follow Jesus. Another (unexpected) blessing for me was the two young men who came from Kansas with the guest speaker for the camp. They are with me in the last photo above. Micah is 20, Daniel is 25. I spent quite a bit of time with them throughout the week. They both told me they came that week expecting to give and to serve, but that they did not expect to grow spiritually so much themselves. They said the time spent with me during the week resulted in a large part of that growth. Praise the Lord for unexpected opportunities like this.