kaylaphillips - World changers

Well, we just completed another training camp and sent 191 students and 28 leaders to experience God in one of 11 different countries for the next 2 months. Camp was fun and filled with beautiful times of seeing these teams join together and grow closer to God as they prepared to launch to the nations.

Today I read this blog from one of our students who just left. I thought you might like getting a glimpse into her experience as she embarks on this journey...

Experiencing My Unknown

by Courtney Bonones on 6/9/2011

The unknown is such an interesting, simple, beautiful thing. How much of our lives do we spend trying to figure out the unknown? That's exactly where I've been the past few months, only to face the fact that I DON'T NEED TO figure it out... Thats why it's the unknown right?

So, here I am, Real Life Training Camp 2011.

I've never KNOWN diversity like this. I've never KNOWN community like this, I've never KNOWN worship like this. I've never KNOWN leaders like this, or people, or The Spirit, or God's Voice, or Passion, or movement, or excitement, or compassion, or LOVE like this. ever. before. in. my. life!

There are 191 college-aged students gathered together at one camp for one purpose: to bring the good news to the nations. Tonight we are being asked to sleep under a homemade tarp/tent with people we met only hours ago. We're being asked to be vulnerable with one another right off the bat, asked to push past our comfort zones and everything we may be used to; even related to church, worship, and prayer. I've already done things I have never even heard of or been exposed to before. God is alive in this place and in these people His children. We are all going to different places, but He will be with each of us. He will constantly be speaking to us and through us in 191 individual ways.

I may not know what the next few months, or week, or day, or even the next step looks like, but I'm confident that I don't need to know. Our God is bigger than our unknowns. I will follow.

These are the teams we've got out this summer. To read their blogs, simply click on the location name: Kenya, Uganda, Africa Expedition, Thailand, India (Andhra Pradesh), India (Goa), Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, New Zealand.