What people are saying about CampsAbroad
Tasila Banda, Camper, Faith Camp, Zambia:
“I’m writing to thank you for coming to Zambia and preach to us at the camp. I really enjoyed myself and learned a lot. I’ll never forget but put into practice what Matt, Bob and Willie taught us. Brother Matt preached on a Thursday night and my life has never been the same. He talked about the people in the Bible who gave themselves all their lives to do Christ’s work, and at the end asked those who felt God has called them into the ministry to talk to their counselors and I was one of them. I want to be a doctor when I grow up and I know I can still serve God as a doctor by moving from place to place and sharing the love of Christ with others and at the same time helping them. Thank you again and keep up the good work of sharing God’s Word to different people and I know God will greatly reward you.”
Andrea Moreira, Camper, Camp Emanuel, Uruguay
“Because of your love offering I could come to Emmanuel Camp. Even though I have been attending church for many years, this time the Lord showed me sin in my heart. I asked the Lord to forgive me and now I am sure I belong to Him.”
Tony Cornelius, Missionary to Dominica
“I want to say a special ‘Thank you’ to CampsAbroad for their ministry that focused on training us in an effective camp ministry. In addition to the biblical counselor training information, materials, and equipment, they selflessly drag suitcases and camp materials around the world doing the same ministry over and over again. Let me encourage you to place them on your prayer list and pray for the vital ministry God has given them. Pray that their strength will be renewed day by day and that their ministry will be multiplied in the camps they assist around the world.”
Tim Darling, Missionary to Venezuela
“Greetings from Venezuela. I want to take this opportunity to share my and our (the Venezuelan group’s) appreciation for CampsAbroad’s investment in the Lord’s work in Venezuela. We know it took a lot of money to do all that you all did for us and the others from Uruguay and Mexico. We thank the Lord for your vision and commitment to helping others do the work of the Lord in the area of camping. When we sent out our S.O.S (send over servants) to The Wilds over a two years ago we had no idea of the door of opportunity and privilege that the Lord was going to open for us. We appreciate the biblical philosophy that The Wilds holds to and we are excited about how the Lord is going to enlarge our territory in the ministry of camping using the same biblical philosophy as our basis.”
Steve Pettit, University President
“We just returned from Kerala, India yesterday. The fruit of CampsAbroad remains. As you know, this past year they had 250 teens in camp. One of those converted was in our meetings and is going strong for the Lord. He is reaching out and having an impact on his own circle of influence.”
Sathosh George, Missionary in India
“We thank the Lord for the opportunity that we can have a great impact on the people through this camp ministry … When I look back, the camp ministry had a great impact on me and my life through the training program … We thank the Lord for their ministry to us … The camp ministry is a ministry of the local church. We believe that and that is our goal through the camp ministry. Our local churches should be strengthened and grow spiritually and I can share example after example how this camp ministry impacted to our young people’s lives as well as the families in our churches.”
Brother Ernest Fih, Bamenda, Cameroon
“I am a product of Camp Joy. I owe my life to Camp Joy. I will never regret that I came to the camp property as a stone worker. The greatest miracle of it all is that the Lord has called me this year to serve as a camp director. I have been praying about it until now, but realize I only need to obey Him and serve Him faithfully.”
Tim Mouanodji, Chad, Africa
“I am very thankful to you all for making it possible to visit with you in USA. We have just finished the mobile camp in Lai. We have [seen] 13 souls get saved and 18 make confession for their sins. For the camp there are 68 campers. Thank you for your prayer.”
Brayan Felipe, Brazil
“Thank you so much for the opportunity you gave me over this summer to go and learn how to run a life-changing camp in North Carolina! What a blessing it was for me to be there during the past two weeks! The Wilds’ staff are excellent in what they do and it shows in the end results. Their passion for God is ‘radiant’ and it’s hard to contain. Their love influences others and they in turn are committed to doing their best. It’s like an on-going positive cycle of doing good!”
Andrew Stoner, The Wilds staff and member of the CampsAbroad Philippines team 2010
“One thing that always strikes me on a trip (and especially this trip) is to see the lives of fellow believers in other places who are truly living for eternity, whose lives are wrapped up in what they’re doing, in ministering to other people, who aren’t distracted by so many of the things that we have going on in the United States. … It’s a joy to see what God’s doing in the hearts of young people, and even in the followup camp to see young people committing their lives to full-time Christian service. And that’s one of the beautiful things about E-Camp–not only are these young people being saved, but hopefully through the followup camps they’re going to be discipled. God is raising up workers to work in His harvest field and it’s an amazing thing to be a part of that.”
Mike Mendiola, Philippines local camp staff member/leader
“CampsAbroad came back for a followup training. Wow, no words could explain how thankful we are, how blessed we are with this type of ministry through [which] we can reach hundreds of young people for the Lord. Oh to see … 20, 30 young people the first night commit themselves to the Lord … you have to be there to experience it.
The Lord has shown us that it is His word, and it was multiplied hundreds and hundreds of times over. And the Lord was just marvelous, and the early part almost 100% made professions to accept Christ … it’s our joy to see how God really worked.”
Ranie Pagsuguiron, local leader in the Philippines camp ministry
“The Word of God says, ‘Lift up your eyes,’ but probably for a long time we have been looking down so we cannot see the plenteous harvest. It’s just grabbing the opportunity actually—we thank the Lord actually because we are just a simple people … it’s always a privilege to be used of God especially in His harvest field.”