Week 5 is in the bag and I only worked a half week this week which was a bit weird. I felt odd taking a nap in the afternoon, but I knew I had to get my rest while I could because these last two weeks are going to be huge! This next week is going to be even bigger than Week 4 so we're going to have over 900 (this should be accurate this time) students invading our campus! So I'll kind of recap what God has been showing me this week.
Justin pointed out in our eval session yesterday that some churches might have planned to come the Fourth of July week on purpose so that there could be smaller numbers. The more rural churches might have been a bit overwhelmed with large numbers and it was a great chance to just get intentional with the students because there wasn't so many of them. The Spark, the band we had this past week and the next week, were phenomenal. I could tell the Holy Spirit was moving every night through their worship and it was so awesome to witness! I know of at least a couple of students who came to know the Lord so the work was worth it.
My church group from this past week reminded me so much of my youth group back home who are on their way to Mississippi College right now for M-Fuge so my thoughts and prayers are with them. Something I felt God convicting me of this week was that I need to KNOW Scripture more. Bro Kenneth made an interesting point in one of his sermons. He was teaching at a private school and had everybody stand up. He asked everybody to remain standing if they could recite a verse for every year they had been a Christian. There were only 4 people standing at the end of it. This hit home to me because I'm sure I know at least 15 different verses in the Bible, but I couldn't just sit down and tell you those verses off of the top of my head. I'm going to try and make memorizing Scripture part of quiet time now.
It's funny how God uses us sometimes. I often wonder why God had me do certain things in high school or why certain situations happen to me. I got to talk to a solid Christian young man this week who I feel like has all the potential in the world to be a strong leader for Christ. We had similar experiences with baseball and similar personalities. I'm hoping that he got something out of talking with me. I had a girl in my Bible Study and church group that approached me with some struggles she had been having after I shared my testimony with her. If you ever wonder why you have the problems and struggles you have, maybe God wants to use you in some way that doesn't make any sense to you now. I was able to minister to this girl because of some struggles I had in my past and I wondered for the longest time why God would want me to go through that. God is faithful though!
Looking forward I only have two more weeks left of camp then I'm heading home. I'm ready to give these kids everything I got. The words "with everything" keep popping up in my head and I'm gonna exhaust myself because there are hurting and broken students coming through here that need the love of Christ. I'm just blessed to get to share a portion of the love that's been shown me. Please pray for energy for our staff, the enemy to get the heck out of here, and for healing because this world needs healing. I love you all and can't wait to see you soon!
Deuteronomy 5:23 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."
In Love,
Bill Bouillon
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