June 30

Saturday 6/25:
We began our days with random evangelism in the downtown. My friend and I found a man sitting by himself at a coffee shop to talk to. We approached him and asked if he would be interested in doing soularium, a picture survey designed to help begin spiritual conversations. He agreed. Through the course of the conversation, we learned that he believes most everything that Christians believed, except that he did not believe in the Trinity. He had read his bible and studied it over and over and it seemed as though he enjoyed talking to us. I don't think any participant of the conversation changed their opinions at the end, but before we left, he said that we made him think. It was exciting for us to have this conversation with him because it forced us to think about what we believe in. It also made us both really excited to read more of the Bible ourselves. It was also cool to experience how the Holy Spirit moved in us, providing us with words to say. It was also an over-all positive evangelism experience. The rest of the afternoon we spent shopping and eating downtown.
Sunday 6/26: 
While in Fort Collins, I have been attending Mountain View Community Church. The past few weeks, I have really enjoyed both the sermon and the worship. This week, the sermon was about growing in our walk with God. The pastor talked about how important it is to play an active role in seeking out opportunities to be in community and have conversations with believers that may be further in their walk than us. He emphasized that their is always room to grow closer to our God. It has been really cool to see how I have grown so far in these past three weeks, in so many different ways: as a future teacher, as an independent adult, as a friend, and most importantly, as a passionate follower of Christ. This environment is awesome for growing because  I am surrounded by Christians and our daily routine is filled with tasks that foster this growth.
Camp:
I think that working at camp is my favorite part of this experience. I love, love, love working with my fifth graders. It is awesome to be able to pour God's love into these girls. I think they are really enjoying being at camp. My personal favorite parts of the camp day are camp meeting (where we sing songs of worship and praise and learn bible stories), power hour (where everyone spends their quiet time in with the Lord), and small group application time (where we can get  into some really cool discussions with the girls). This past Friday (7/1) we talked about spiritual growth with the girls. We shared with them that they never stop growing in their relationship with God and also how we can both help others grow, help ourselves grow, and have others help us grow, through discipleship. We reminded the girls that while we can water and plant seeds, it is God that makes them grow and not our own actions. After this discussion, one of our campers came up to us and told us that she feels she has grown a lot in the past two weeks of camp! Earlier in the week, we talked about the story of Issac and how God called Abraham to do something difficult. We then discussed difficult things God has asked us to do. This conversation brought one of our girls to tears, and though she wouldn't discuss it, we could tell that something had resonated in her heart.