All right? Question...and be honest with yourself.....How is your attitude about recruiting childcare volunteers for camp?Are you ignoring it for now because you have no idea who to ask?
Do you have a full list of people that you have thought of, but whom you have not asked because you are pretty sure they won't be able to take a week off and/or pay the camp fee?
Are you so busy with teen moms, babies and mentors that you have not even thought about camp childcare?
Having helped recruited and tracked over 1500 childcare volunteers in the last four years, every year I feel a little guilty as we head into camp. These childcare volunteers are taking precious time to come to camp. They, many times, are laying out their hard-earned cash to come. AND the clincher.... they have no idea how tough a week it can be!
Lately however, I have been convicted that I (maybe we?) do not need to feel guilty. Every year at the end of the camp week, I see childcare volunteers who are so grateful they got to be a part of camp. They are grateful they got to see Jesus change the lives of teen moms and their children. AND the clincher, they are grateful because they encountered Jesus in their own faith journey in a new and exciting way....in a way that could ONLY happen at YoungLives camp as a childcare volunteer.
So as we ask childcare volunteers to come with us to camp, let us rejoice and look forward to how He is going to work!
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