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Testimony
Team Mama Report – July 2006
We
had
a
great
time
of
ministry
this
year
at
Camp
Mama.
I
couldn’t
have
asked
for
a
better
team
to
be
a
part
of.
Our
team
was
made
up
of
four
Ukrainians,
Angelina,
Vika,
Sasha,
and
Lena
and
then
me,
Emily,
the
American.
Our
team
members
had
amazing
senses
of
humor,
worked
great
for
each
other,
and loved the kids an incredible amount.
We
had
a
set
back
on
the
first
Friday
that
we
were
there.
Through
the
previous
week
we
had
become
very
close
to
the
kids,
and
we
all
had
the
few
kids
that
we
had
developed
extra
special
relationships
with.
On
Thursday
we
found
out
that
28
young
kids
and
around
the
same
number
of
older
children
were
going
to
leave
the
next
day
to
go
to
Camp
Hope.
Our
team
was
very
frustrated
with
this
news.
I,
personally,
had
the
opportunity
to
have
an
amazing
conversation
with
some
of
the
boys
about
following
Jesus and finding strength in him the night before. I was really upset that I was
Emily McLean
not going to have an opportunity for follow-
up
conversations
with
them.
The
other
team
members
were
equally
upset
about
the
kids
they
had
grown
close
to
leaving.
We
felt
that
our
work
had
been
in
vain
because
we
hadn’t
been
given
a
long
enough
time
to
work
with
the
kids
to
truly
impact
them.
There
were
many
uncertainties
that
followed
the
kids
leaving.
We
didn’t
know
how
many
children
would
be
left.
We
also
didn’t
know
the
ages
of
the
kids
that
were
staying.
If
the
kids
were
all
older
they
wouldn’t
want
to
come
to
our
programs,
we
felt,
because
they
were
designed
for
the
younger
children.
There
was
talk
of
leaving
and
going
to
join
the
team out at Cosmos. That night as I was reading my Bible though I came across 1 Corinthians 15:58 which says,
“Therefore,
my
dear
brothers,
stand
firm.
Let
nothing
move
you.
Always
give
yourselves
fully
to
the
work
of
the
Lord,
because
you
know
that
your
labor
in
the
Lord
is
not
in
vain.”
Even
though
many
thought
that
we
were
going
to
be
leaving,
I
felt
that
God
wanted
us to stay at Mama because His plans were greater than our plans, which couldn’t see past this set back.
So
we
cried
and
said
goodbye
to
the
children
and
got
right
back
to
work
developing
new
relationships
with
the
kids
who
were
left.
God
knew
exactly
what
he
was
doing
though
and
we
had
an
amazing
time
with
the
children
who
remained.
It
was
hard
at
first
because we felt like we were starting at square one and only 15-
20
kids
came
to
the
programs.
However
by
the
middle
of
the
week
you
would
walk
around
the
camp
and
you
would
hear
the
kids
singing
the
songs
we
sang
with
them
during
the
programs.
They
would
be
doing
something
like
working
on
their
grass
huts
and
be
singing
the
songs
about
Jesus.
To
think
that
they
might
not
have
been
able
to
learn
the
songs,
or
hear
them
enough
to
get
them
stuck
in their heads if we had not stayed. God is good!
All
around
it
was
an
amazing
two
weeks.
We
were
able
to
build
and
rebuild
personal
relationships
with
the
children
that
even
not
having
showers
to
bathe
couldn’t
tear
apart.
We
were
also
able,
with
only
the
grace
of
God,
to
be
given
the
opportunity
and
endurance to stay the second week to be able to hear the children sing.
Emily McLean
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