Galatians 5:13 'For you brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.'

What I think this verse means is that we are free but but since we are free we should serve each other, and not serve each other because we have to but out of love. Serving each other because we love them.

Last summer I went on a mission trip with royal servants and I fell in love with that group. So this summer I went back except I just went to training camp and went to serve. I also went to camp Lebanon in Upsala MN.

At the camps I did the behind the scens things that keep the camp runing. I did odd jobs such as cleaning bathrooms, washing tarps and seting up and taking down tents. But my most important job was encourgment. At the royal servants training camp part of our 'job' was to encourge the students, staff and leaders who were going over seas. The team I was on was made up of alumni and the name of our team was Barnabas which means 'Son of encougment'. Some of the ways we encourged was that every night we did a prayer walk and we wrote letters to the team leaders.

Through out the hours spent cleaning bathrooms and days spent standing in the hot sun some of the things God taught me were...

That is it so important to keep encourging your brothers and sisters in there walk with Christ, Satan is constantly trying to bring us down in our walk with Christ even though we don't always see it we always need to be praying not only for ourselves but for those around us, And then through how utterly tired I got I was reminded that we need to give everday to God and rely on Him to give us the strenght we need to make it through each day.

Being at royal servant training camp and not on a team I was able to see the ways God worked in the big things like the teams getting the support money they needed to go over seas to the small things like we counted the passport holders and came up 6 short and then I was sorting through the blue bags and opened up a zipper pouch and there were 6 passport holders in it.

As you see I didn't go over seas this summer but that isn't the only place we are needed. God can use you right here in the USA to do work for Him and further His kingdom. You just need to be open to His calling and ready for the moments He gives you.

God has been more then faithful this summer. He helped me make it through every day when I felt like that last bit of strength was gone. And I just want to thank you all for the prayers and letters I got while I was gone. It is so engouging to know that you all support me and what I feel called to do.




On sunday evening a couple weeks ago me and some of the other high schoolers who went on mission trips this summer and camps all talked about what we did/learned over the summer. So that is what I said (well not like word for word seeing as I didn't read it or memorize it or anything like that).