Each team created a canvas during training camp to express what God’s doing in their team and the calling he’s put on their hearts as they head out to the nations.
This is the Nicaragua canvas…
“This is our representation of what we feel like God is going to do through us this summer. The fire represents how God is an all consuming fire and we are His vessels to bring hope, compassion, and God’s burning love to Nicaragua.” –Ashley Downing
God wants your heart by April Welch
He doesn’t just want our morality or for us to simply follow the rules – He wants our hearts. When we give Him our hearts, we want nothing else, we live for nothing else, we search for nothing else but for Him alone. On this trip I desire for my teammates and I to just run hard after our loving father, to give Him all of us so we can experience more and more of Him. I want my desires to be not in the things of the world, whether “good” things or things of the flesh, but to be stripped away from anything and everything that is keeping me from experiencing all God has for me. When He has our hearts, He can and will take us to places and experiences that we ourselves while trapped in our own flesh could not even possibly imagine or dream of.
God wants your heart by April Welch
He doesn’t just want our morality or for us to simply follow the rules – He wants our hearts. When we give Him our hearts, we want nothing else, we live for nothing else, we search for nothing else but for Him alone. On this trip I desire for my teammates and I to just run hard after our loving father, to give Him all of us so we can experience more and more of Him. I want my desires to be not in the things of the world, whether “good” things or things of the flesh, but to be stripped away from anything and everything that is keeping me from experiencing all God has for me. When He has our hearts, He can and will take us to places and experiences that we ourselves while trapped in our own flesh could not even possibly imagine or dream of.
An Unexpected Visitor by Paige Kimbel
Dirty fur. Green paint on a wet nose. Eyes locked on mine, and head cocked to one side. No, not me. But a black lab who has begun to call AIM home. Just like kids who wait for Mom and Dad to turn away, we slip food under the table to his waiting mouth. His wagging tail repeatedly hits our legs, in an effort to thank us, as he trots to the next table. I can only imagine the things our unexpected visitor overhears. From one table to the next, talk of loving orphans in Uganda, bringing hope to commercial sex workers in India, or moving hearts in Bolivia. He’s probably heard talk of God speaking to us personally and the surrender of unbelief. He is hearing affirmations and singing, laughter and prayer. He’s listening to echoes of the hope of nations from the hearts of a bunch of college kids ready to see and to be God’s kingdom on earth.
Dirty fur. Green paint on a wet nose. Eyes locked on mine, and head cocked to one side. No, not me. But a black lab who has begun to call AIM home. Just like kids who wait for Mom and Dad to turn away, we slip food under the table to his waiting mouth. His wagging tail repeatedly hits our legs, in an effort to thank us, as he trots to the next table. I can only imagine the things our unexpected visitor overhears. From one table to the next, talk of loving orphans in Uganda, bringing hope to commercial sex workers in India, or moving hearts in Bolivia. He’s probably heard talk of God speaking to us personally and the surrender of unbelief. He is hearing affirmations and singing, laughter and prayer. He’s listening to echoes of the hope of nations from the hearts of a bunch of college kids ready to see and to be God’s kingdom on earth.
Exceeding Expectations by Amanda Thomas
I remember one of the first things I heard was “This isn’t just another summer camp, we came to spread the word of Jesus, to see the sick healed, to see miracles down in His name, to be wrecked for the ordinary.” This was when I realized God had something new for us and He was going to push us to our limits and beyond to help us grow in His glory. He’s worked so much in just these past few days, I can’t wait to see what He’s going to do in these next months.
Stay tuned to see what God’s doing in the Uganda team…
