Posted by
Billy on Thursday, June 30, 2011 4:48:35 PM
This past week, roughly 30 staff members from
Pine Cove Christian Camps of Tyler, Texas, put on a camp at a
church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for about 150 youngsters, many of whom lost
nearly everything in April's twister. The trip was planned long before the
tornado struck, and spokesman Jason Wallace says his group knew they needed to
contact the church to see what they could do.
"We wanted to help them
find a creative way to reach out to the community, and that's really what base
camp does by providing camp on a church property," he explains. "And so we were
going there anyway. When all this happened, obviously it was painful. We called
them the day of and wanted to make sure they were doing okay, but we're really
excited to see this as an opportunity to really bless the community. So I think
they ended up giving away about two-thirds of the camp to kids who had been
affected by the tornado," which means those kids receive scholarships to
attend.
According to Wallace, the event was a divine
appointment. (
AL tornado victims' divine
appointment )
"In preparation for us coming, I called our contact person
there. And when she was telling me all the stories of all the people who had
responded as they gave out scholarships to those who were affected by the
tornado and how the community had rallied around to give money to the people who
had been affected by the tornado so the kids could go to the camp, we
were...both on the phone, just amazed at what God had done," the spokesman
shares.
(Billy's Thoughts>>> God does use all things including those that we would call bad things. God Bless this camp and their work.)