Week 3 of camp...

Right now:
This is now our 3rd week of camp this summer and it has been neat to see how God has worked theses past 3 weeks.
Karalise has been learning a lot in the kitchen about how to cook for large groups as she assists the cook. She has also been learning a lot about supervising our high school staff as they work in the kitchen most of the time.
Malachi has also had many opportunities to learn and develop his maintenance skills as he works under the camp's very skilled maintenance guy, Caleb.
We have enjoyed our evening Bible study time with our 6 high school staff these past couple weeks, tonight we3 will be studying Psalm 103 for our chapter on "poetry". Our highschoolers have been amazing! They have worked very hard, even on jobs that aren't the most fun... would you still be smiling after 1,180+ dishes? They usually are! They have been faithfully studying God's Word daily and then asking some pretty tough questions during our evening group Bible study. God has really blessed us with a great group of teens for the past few weeks!

This weekend:
This Friday we will be traveling down to Indiana for Malachi's dental work/oral surgury. Some friends hooked us up with a dentist in Plymouth, IN and these friends are covering the cost of the dental work. They wish to remain anonymous but if you would like to help them out, You may do that by sending us a check and putting "dental" in the memo and then we will send it to the dentist. Please pray that Malachi will heal quickly and thet hae will not have a lot of pain as we are only off for the weeked.

This is our memory verse for today, hope it is an encouragement to you!
Psalm 103:11-12
"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so grreat is His (the Lord's) love for those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."

Have a wonderful day!
~the Pratts

one for the books

This week was the first real week with campers, which was exciting.The excitement wore off for me about half way through day two when i was called in to clean up a mess in the bathroom left by a sick camper. But the Lord is good and he provided some major encouragement for us this past week as he has put it on the hearts of some of our brothers and sisters in Christ to pay for the dental work that needs to be done. This came right about the same time as we received the disappointing news from yet another doctor that he cant find any reason as to Karalise's health problems. Please be in prayer for us that we would finally find some answers and be able to take a more proactive role at here recovery. After the rough start to the week things really started to pick up. we got our first group of high school staff on Monday and by about Thursday they were really starting to open up. Friday night they had so many questions that twenty minutes before curfew i finally had to cut things short so that they could get ready for bed. working with these teens is such a blessing to us. The Lord uses our interactions with them to further reveal himself to us. They test our patience, they test our bible knowledge, they test out self control...etc but in the end it all comes down to the testing of our faith, and theirs. we spent this whole first week studying the book of James, and these kids just ate it up. we gave them a list of helpful questions to ask the text and they came back and asked for something a little more challenging. we worked them for 10 hours a day and they still found an hour a day to study the bible, and then another hour and a half to talk through the proper interpretation of the passage. It was incredible. needless to say even though we are there teachers and there supervisors we are very humbled by the quality of these kids.

God is at work at pine ridge bible camp. stay tuned for more updates on how he works in and through us this summer.


In His Love

Mac and Kara