Another Good Week of Work

Camp Tracey has been our home for a week. Time just continues to fly by. We are thankful to be able to spend this part of winter in Florida. Right now, the weather certainly is much better here than in the northern part of the US. However, it is pouring down rain today with the storms that come with it.

Once again, we had a productive week of work. Sharon spent 2 days of the week tutoring girls at their school. Don and the men are putting vinyl siding on a house. The ladies spent a couple of days cracking pecans. The nuts came from trees on the property. There is, also, a small garden where the students grow a few vegetables for use in the camp.

The RVICS couples love interacting with the students that are here. We are invited to eat lunch and supper with the girls or the boys (they eat separately). In talking with them, their lives are full of broken homes and troubled backgrounds. In talking with a girl yesterday, she calls Camp Tracey her home. An uncle (who adopted her) told her not to come back. It breaks your heart. They are here because of the trouble that they have gotten into. They have entered this camp because the family has sent them here or (in rare cases) a court has sent them. However, the good news is that if they are here for at least a year there is a 90% success rate.

There is an international flavor to this project as there are 2 couples of Canada that are serving here with a different RV mission group. It has been fun getting to know them. The men have worked separately but he ladies have spent a couple days with the RVICS ladies doing the pecans.

Thanks, again, for following our ministry with your prayers.