Forever on Her Heart and Mind

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As your club season begins, our prayer and hope for you as that you would dig into scripture with your friends, that they, like Caroline, would be forever changed by.  Be encouraged by the great update below from Brittany Mazuchowski....


A couple of weeks ago, I was enjoying a delicious camp lunch with my Capernaum friends at Carolina Point. We had an incredible week there. We had dance parties, pool parties, trips to the snack bar, and a Young Life Club each day. At club, we heard from our friend and camp speaker, Suzanne. Each day she told us the story of
the Prodigal Son, and how it teaches us about God and about ourselves. We learned that in the same way the father welcomes home his lost son, God extends an invitation to us to be at home with Him! 

On the last day, before we ate lunch and loaded the bus headed back to Williamson County, our friends sat in a circle and shared their favorite parts of the week, as well as what they had learned from Suzanne about Jesus. When it was Caroline's turn, she proceeded to tell us, in full detail, the story of the Prodigal Son, just as Suzanne had told us throughout the week. She knew the whole thing, start to finish. She told us that the son wanted his share of the money, and left home to go far away to party and live life on his own, that he ate pig food, and that he got homesick and decided to return home to his father. She told us how the father was there waiting- how he ran out to greet his son and hug him, and then threw a party to welcome him home. She knew that in the story, we are like the son and God is like the father. Now this story is forever on Caroline's heart and mind, I pray that she will always remember how much she is loved by God- that no matter how far she runs or how well she tries to hide, God is always waiting with open arms to welcome her home.


All the first time campers at Capernaum camp get a Bible to take home with them. I passed them out to our friends on our bus ride home. A little while later, I noticed Caroline reading her bible out loud - the story of the Prodigal Son. 


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