So last week was Love Crofton. This is an amazing event where Camp Qwanoes and Warmland Church partner together. The students are given opportunities to take on new leadership roles. This is a week where every afternoon (Monday to Thursday) we go into Crofton and serve the people living there. This is a powerful testimony to the town of Crofton. How often do a group of college students go to a strangers house and work/clean for them?
The Kaleo leadership staff made the flyers and that is where their leadership ended for this event. The rest of the event was run by the students. There were 3 students who stepped into the administrative role; Carissa, Andrew and I. I have done administrative/organizational work for events back home and I wanted to explore this area some more. I wanted to see if this was something I was truly gifted in. Being in this role was amazing and a great experience. I got to see a whole different side of this event.
So after we handed out flyers, people started contacting Warmland with job information (jobs included general yard cleanup, cleaning gutters, gardening, hedge trimming, cleaning a boat, oil changes and basically anything people needed done) and then Warmland would send the information to us. By the Thursday before the Love Crofton week, we had received 30 calls!! Incredible!! The administrative team got right to work. We assigned team leaders to each job. The team leader would be the contact person with this 'client'. They would have to contact their client and get all the information for the job. The scheduling process presented its challenges. Me and Carissa didn't really know where to start but then once we figured out a system, it went really smoothly. Throughout the week we would have people cancel or new calls come in. Everything worked out so well as we rearranged jobs and tried to fit new ones in. Between the 4 days the students went to 40 different houses!
I truly feel that this is a gift God has given me; I don't yet know how God is going to use that in my life though. I really enjoyed being on this end of the Love Crofton Team. I feel privileged to have been able to work with Carissa and Andrew and enjoyed getting to know them better. All 3 of us brought individual gifts and skills that complimented each other very well. It was awesome to see their leadership abilities put into action. As well as the other 21 students. I loved seeing them step up and take leadership of 1-2 jobs throughout the week. The best part of my day was hearing their stories when they came back to camp. Everybody worked so hard and had a great attitude, no matter what the job was or what the weather was like. They finished every job strong and left the citizens of Crofton happy, in awe of what just happened and changed for life. It was amazing to see how God was at work in the lives of those around me; students and neighbors.
I had one opportunity to go into Crofton and work as well. There was one job that due to miscommunication, there ended up being more work then they originally thought. By Thursday morning, all that was left was a big pile of dirt that needed to be hauled away. So a group of students went to help finish off the job in the morning. It was especially cool to see the attitude of the 3 students originally assigned to this job. Even though things didn't go as planned and their client wasn't very happy at first. These students didn't give up. They persevered and were willing to do extra hours to complete this job to the best of their ability. They showed this man that they truly cared for and loved him. I got to have a conversation with this man and even though he was disappointed at first, at the end of it all he was super pleased. He told me that he wanted to make a donation to the camp. GOD IS SO GOOD!!
Besides Love Crofton we have been very busy here at Camp Qwanoes. We went to Wildplay, which is a high ropes course up in the trees. It has zip lines as well as tons of challenges (including various bridges, swings and you name it) as you go through 3 different levels. It was super fun. The day we went was Kenzie's Birthday. Wildplay gave her a free bungee jump. We were all super proud of her and she had a blast!
We have also been doing pre-course work for our gospels class, which started Monday. As well as serving on the Juniors Retreat last weekend. Update on those later. Also on Tuesday we will be heading out for 3 days for some surfing!! WOAH!
Thanks for all your prayers!
Sabrina
No comments:
Post a Comment