Young Life Africa.

Last week, I had the privilege to join about 16 African staff and 12 American committee members in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for an African style Young Life camp. It was quite amazing to experience a YL camp that was completely run by all African staff from countries such as Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Uganda. The backbone of the camp was just like YL camps in America with club, skits, mixers, volleyballs tournaments, dances, silly entertainment, etc., but it was different in the fact that everything was spoken in Swahili, the countries mother language, and that everything was done with a little Africa flare or touch. The songs were slightly different, the skits were slightly different. There was about 140 campers there for the second three day camp. They came from all different kinds of homes. Some were orphans, some from homes who do not have very many things or money, and some who came from really decent homes. It was a wide spectrum of kids, but they were all from Tanzania. I can attest, Young Life Africa is doing an amazing job reaching out to the teenagers of Africa. God is moving because many teenagers at the end of the camp literally bowed down, got on their knees after their twenty minutes of quiet time, and professed a relationship with Christ. Praise Jesus!