"Faith" and Day 2 Senior Camp

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1

One of the gyms for camp

Day 2 runs pretty similar to the camps in the U.S. We had our typical jump class, stunt class, and electives. For electives we taught 2 different dances, and the boys were allowed to go to partner stunting class. One thing we offer the Czechs and not in the U.S. is tumbling class. We have a separate time blocked off for everyone to learn some basic skills. The stations were broken off into handstands, cartwheels, round offs, forward rolls, and back hand springs. The campers seemed to enjoy the tumbling stations, and some even did new skills for the first time!

In the evening we had tumble jam, spirit sticks, and primetime. Tonight, Addi spoke on having faith and confidence. She related it to stunting and how the flyer has to place faith in her bases that they will catch her. In the same way Addi and the rest of the U.S. staff puts faith in God. Everyone puts faith in something or in someone. Some people place faith in their friends and family, some place confidence in money, some place it in relationships, and many place it in many other things. We place faith and confidence in something or someone that we can "trust". For me, God is the only person I can put faith and confidence in that is consistent. Materials fade and even the people in your life can fail you at times. As humans we are imperfect. It's life. I can always count on Him to show me when I am in the wrong or give me encouragement (through his Word/Bible), talk to Him when I need comfort (prayer), reflect on his greatness through his creation (nature), and to have strength when everything else around me fails. I think about my experience getting to the Czech and how God provided all of these things and more. He provided for me financially to get here, spiritually and mentally through prayer and word, and strength by putting the right people in my life at the right time.

After primetime, we headed back to our staff room at the campers' hotel as usual and did our observations, frustrations, and prayer requests. Again, it is so nice to have the Czech staff involved in observations and frustrations because it helps the U.S. staff learn and see things from their point of view culturally as well as bond as a staff by getting out our frustrations of the day. Tomorrow is fun day and I am pumped! :)