I've just got back from YOS school camp... If you don't know YOS is Youth Outreach Service, my work place, a salvo youth drop-in centre for kids living and hanging out in inner-city Brisbane....we also run three flexi-school sites for kids disengaged from mainstream school (dropped out or expelled).....
What a privilege to go on camp....It was amazing....to see a bunch of kids challenge themselves and push themselves beyond what they thought they could bear....
one kid said 'I feel more confident'
another decided to go on and finish grade 11 & 12 instead of settling with a grade 10 certificate...
heaps of them overcame fears....
it was amazing....we got to do a low ropes course, High ropes course, challenege activities, a hike up a gorge (very steep gorge, took us about 6 hrs to do a 5km hike), a 7km canoe ride (with fallen trees as obstacles), we slept in a run down shack on a cow paddock (and ad possums visit us in the night), climbed trees and just had an amazing time....
but the best thing was to see the kids confidence grow....to hear the stories and see hope, plans and future grow in them........Jesus I pray you would secure these plans please don't let the enemy steal their futures....
the only down side is the amount of sleep I got....or didn't get.....but hey It was worth it..... These kids now know they can do it.....They have strategies to overcome fears .....all I can say is WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDIIIIIIIIIEEEE...
and on that note I think I really need to get some sleep.....
-Be Strong and Courageous-
!Relle
1 comment:
Narelle,
Your last name sounds like "unicorn" but then again, you've probably heard that before!
Thanks for your blog. Grace,
Aurora
(War College Martyr, comrade in the fight!)
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