Youth Camp at La Montana

Youth Camp was AMAZING!!!  We took 39 youth to San Ramon to Campamento La Montana and we had a blast!  Many of these kids from our Youth Group are from the poorest neighborhoods in town and to experience something like this was more than special for them.  The teaching was solid and the youth were really challenged to know Christ, leave the old behind/forgive those in their past, and move forward as a strong witness for Christ.  We had man accept Jesus as Savior on the first night of camp.  The second night was the most powerful as the message was all about forgiving those who have hurt you in your past so that you can move forward and shine brightly for Jesus.  We cried and cried with some of them for hours as they worked through deep pain of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, abandonment, loneliness, etc....many of our boys cried as we held them and rocked them and loved on them.  It was such a beautiful thing for us to see Christ working in them--healing those hurts--so that they could move forward to become the men and women of God that He is calling them to be!!!  We were blown away by the testimonies on the last day where our kids shared what God did in their hearts through the camp experience.  We are blown away by God's faithfulness and even have one youth, Cristian, who we have been discipling for a few years now, feel like God is calling him to ministry--maybe even the pastorate!!  We are so excited about what God has for these youth in the near future!!  We know that these 39 will multiply and this group will change the next generation of Jaco!!!  Praise You, Lord!!!!