You can be Free

This past week was our anual youth camp here in Cochabamba Bolivia. This is a special time each year when we focus on reaching young people and also challenging them to live for the Lord and serve Him. I believe that we have a great opportunity and potential, working with these young people, because they have their whole life before them and are still flexible in many areas. It is also a time when many things are fighting for their attention and loyalty. They have friends that influence them, and family that pushes them towards a career where they can have a successful life. Those things can be good things as long as they first take into account what God’s will is for their lives. This is why it is so important, for us, to try and influence them and allow God to work in their lives.
This years camp theme was, “Breaking the Chains” that keep us from doing what the Lord would have us to do. We touched on things like Mediocrity, Worldliness, Pier pressure, Fear, and Immorality. Each morning we had two sessions teaching on these “chains” that can hinder us, ending with a service where they were challenged from God’s word. Then in the afternoon we had activities and competitions between the two teams that the campers were divided into. At night we ended things with another service where they were challenged to surrender their lives to the Lord. This year, once again, we had as a special speaker, pastor Juan Pacheco from the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Arequipa Peru. There were about 10 total that came with him, along with another pastor from Juliaca Peru, Percy Lopez. The Lord truly worked in a great way with two making a profession of faith and two more that received assurance of their salvation. Also there were many that went to the altar to give their lives to what the Lord would have them to do. We praise the Lord for how He worked during this time and would ask you to pray for these young people, that they can follow through with the decisions that they made.