In the next several days there's going to be a whole lotta life happening in and around our "village"--a neighbor's oldest son is getting married, other neighbors' first-born will deploy to Afghanistan, my brother & his wife will head to Jamaica to continue their Young Life work with girls' orphanages, Alexandra will lead at a Young Life middle school camp AND our Rebecca will leave to be on a Young Life workcrew in Eleuthera, Bahamas for 8 days.
I'm pretty sure they won't be on the Club Med side of the island--they're bringing Young Life camp not to well-off tourists but to teens who live on the island, teens who maybe have never even been off the island--teens who have probably never heard of Young Life. So Rebecca is a part of a group who will be bringing YL camp to them--complete with all the wonderful wackiness that defines YL camp--that makes it the "best week" of a teen's life! Games and songs and skits and great food and laughing and talks about this God who created their beautiful island, who sees their lives and loved them enough to send His very own Son to be among us. The workcrew kids are high schoolers who have experienced for themselves the wonder of a week at a Young Life camp and because it so impacted them they decide to give a week of their summer back to Jesus and these campers. It is faith hard at work! Rebecca will helping to do "program"--something that is probably woven in her DNA, since she first watched her Uncle Patrick do it better than anybody when she was 18 months old @ Trail West family camp in Colorado! "Program" is games and songs and skits--she will be terrific--maybe she will sing like she did last night?
This is what I know--she will be about her Father's business. Remember what Jesus told his parents when they were upset that he had stayed behind in the temple? He said "Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” Luke 2:49 (NKJV) Those young people getting married, and the young man going to Afghanistan, and all who are serving with Young Life and our sweet Rebecca will all be about His business--loving, serving, protecting, showing others what Jesus with-skin-on looks like, sounds like, acts like.
Godspeed, sojourners, Godspeed Rebecca...
We are thankful for your lives, we are praying for you.
