For when I am weak, then I am strong

So what do you do when you have a roadmap for how the week is supposed to go, all the activities planned, ideas of how God might work.   Things are going along smoothly and then- bam!- Roadmap thrown away and you are in completely unfamiliar territory, feeling more than a little carsick and wondering when this ride might end.  

The Poland team is probably feeling this way right now.   Word got to us last night that many in the camp are sick with what appears to be food poisoning or some kind of Rotavirus.   Several have been sent to the hospital to get IV fluids while the rest are having to wait outside the camp for a professional cleaning company to clean the camp and an investigation to take place.   It is not just the Polish Team but kids who came to the YoungLife camp as well as other campers that were at the camp.  

Some of you may think, that is such a shame, to have their trip marred by illness.   We need to remember though that it is through these experiences we often see the hand of God most clearly and we discover what a BIG God we serve and who loves us.

 

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.  That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.     - 2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 (NIV)

 

Please keep all these campers in your prayers, not just for speedy recoveries but that they will keep their hearts and minds open to God's perfection in the midst of their complete weakness.  

 

We will update more as we get more information.   Blessing and our Prayers on the Poland Team- Karen