Tuesday sadly was our last day with the youth at our camp. All the campers left Tuesday afternoon to return to their family and friends. It was so sad to see them leave, and many were crying and kept hugging us over and over again, asking if we would return the following year. Many of these youth will return to homes that are either not religious or are not Christian (Catholicism is predominant here in Croatia) and a few in the camp who were Christians even mentioned that they are used to getting made fun of others for their faith. And these children continually received love and attention and acceptance at this camp for an entire week, and to leave that environment and go back into the ‘real world,’ which may include a broken home, can be challenging. The most exciting part was perhaps learning that there were two girls that accepted Christ as their personal savior on the last night of the Story of God (Monday night). And not only that, we believe that all other students moved forward in some form. Some who were not necessarily religious are now intrigued about how different Christianity is from their Catholic backgrounds and thus want to learn more and even return to the camp next year. Others who are Christians, including us missionaries, will continue to work on developing a stronger closer personal relationship with God.
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