243 Saved At Highlands, Colombia, SA

We wrapped up our Evangelistic Camps on June 5 – 7.
Here are the stats on the last one:
Campers 538
Volunteers 163
TOTAL 701
We were pretty well running at full capacity. We moved beds up from the ranch house and put our volunteers on the floor. So we ordered more mattresses and brought in 20 tents. We didn’t have enough trays in the kitchen , so the last few had to use disposable plates. As far as lodging and feeding, we were put to the test, and I think we passed it fairly well. Meals were on time and our volunteers are such good sports that we heard no complaining about their sleeping arrangements.
What was really stretched to the limit were our counselors. On the guys side, we had 16 kids per counselor. Considering the kids who came, that made it very difficult to have ,much quality time with each one...something that is extremely important for evangelism and especially follow up. By the last day, we had 243 kids who made professions of faith! So God was good and gave us a great harvest.
Last Saturday we had a Youth Rally at church and this coming Saturday, we start our workshops in order to improve the retention. This is probably the hardest work and where we need a lot of improvement. I’ll never be satisfied with a 20% to 25% retention rate! We have to learn to do better!All in all it has been a fruitful season.
On August 7 – 8, we have our Parent’s Evangelistic Camp. We already have over 20 parents enrolled and we haven’t really opened inscriptions. Getting the parents will certainly improve our chances of keeping the kids.
Thank you for making this possible.
Craig Lingo
Highlands Camp, Colombia, SA