TED Experience (Kari)

Our time at Champfleuri was awesome!  While at camp I met F. She was really sweet and spoke English well.  When I met her on the first day I had a feeling that I’m going to get really close to her. Just by talking to her for about five minutes I could see the similarities in our personality. Later in the week, we were on a two hour bus ride to one of the highest ropes courses in France. I sat with F, and as we started to talk we both shared some of our testimony and how God has been working our life and what He has been teaching us. We both shared what we struggle within our walk, and started to encourage one another.  She was so nice and she said that it was great to come to this camp and have people around her that believe the same things that she believes and she can talk openly about it with them. This camp had really impacted her and gave her the fellowship with some Christian friends, which was really cool to hear.

During the two weeks at Champfleuri God had been working in me, especially with being intentional. Earlier at home I was only intentional because I thought that it was the right thing to do. I was not intentional because of love, which is what I should have been doing.  While at camp God really convicted me of how I was not being intentional out of love towards the girls the first couple days and how I was only being intentional because it was encouraged. Later God showed me that I should be intentional out of love and show the other girls His love through me. It was great learning that now because I can take that with me and be intentional with my friends in school, to show them God’s love for them.