KOZ Pink Summer Fishing Camp 2010
I said all along that the summer camp with the KOZ Pink girls was going to be a vacation for me. This first foray into the summer camps for the girls side of KOZ was so much more than I had ever expected.
We have two really wonderful new leaders for the KOZ Pink girls, Cindy and Nicole. They had both been bugging the heck out of me to go on a KOZ Pink adventure and when I asked if they would take a week from work and go, they jumped at the chance.
Bob Lusk and his wife hosted the camp at their home north of Dallas on lake Texoma. Bob is president of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and is known as the Pond Boss after his highly successful business and magazine. Bob and I had been talking about the opportunity and he was very interested in hosting the program. The only week I had to do it began two days after the boys fish camp. It was ugg for me, wash my clothes, one night of rest and off again. To the last minute we added a girl and passed our limit of eight to nine but turned out each seat in the two vehicles were used, so obviously we were suppose to take each girl that came.
The first morning we left to go boating, well I guess if you can call a 44’ yacht a boat. The day was spent on Lake Texoma swimming and tooling about. We anchored on a sandy island, had sandwiches and swam, a fantastic time bonding and getting to know each other.
The next three days we fished different ponds Bob had on his property, perch in one, catfish another, bass in another. If there was ever a place you dream of fishing and catching, it looked like this. Guest speakers came and taught the girls about habitat and wildlife. They zip lined, swam in the ponds and laughed from early morning to late into the night.
During the late night chats God spoke clearly in so many ways. It was an amazing time of caring, sharing and tears. Girls fought through fears and worries, they let go of things that had kept them from who they wanted to be. On the last night as we sat around the living room seven girls accepted Christ, two reaffirmed their love for Him and I can honestly say it was one of the most powerful times of my life.
I was blessed to see the love of God and the Holy Spirit move mountains over that week. To top it off we prayed on the way home for God to lead us to a small café for lunch. Why pray for that you ask, I am not sure, we just did. He took us off the highway to a small café at two-o’clock in the afternoon and we met the most wonderful couple who had been praying for customers!
To just absolutely show us “When He Reins, It Pours” they told us they had been saving a portion of their earnings at the café to donate to a nonprofit Christian group and they handed us a check for $200. Wow.
As we move forward with this program He is convicting us to make sure we stay on point, that as long as it is about Him – He will pour out His blessing upon us. Right when we think we know where He is taking us, it changes.
Lord we pray for your will in all our works, we pray for You to bring us the kids we are charged to love on. Fall hunting and adventure begins soon. We leave the summer camps with one saying that He gave us that sticks with us, “when He reins, He pours.”
I said all along that the summer camp with the KOZ Pink girls was going to be a vacation for me. This first foray into the summer camps for the girls side of KOZ was so much more than I had ever expected.
We have two really wonderful new leaders for the KOZ Pink girls, Cindy and Nicole. They had both been bugging the heck out of me to go on a KOZ Pink adventure and when I asked if they would take a week from work and go, they jumped at the chance.
Bob Lusk and his wife hosted the camp at their home north of Dallas on lake Texoma. Bob is president of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and is known as the Pond Boss after his highly successful business and magazine. Bob and I had been talking about the opportunity and he was very interested in hosting the program. The only week I had to do it began two days after the boys fish camp. It was ugg for me, wash my clothes, one night of rest and off again. To the last minute we added a girl and passed our limit of eight to nine but turned out each seat in the two vehicles were used, so obviously we were suppose to take each girl that came.
The first morning we left to go boating, well I guess if you can call a 44’ yacht a boat. The day was spent on Lake Texoma swimming and tooling about. We anchored on a sandy island, had sandwiches and swam, a fantastic time bonding and getting to know each other.
The next three days we fished different ponds Bob had on his property, perch in one, catfish another, bass in another. If there was ever a place you dream of fishing and catching, it looked like this. Guest speakers came and taught the girls about habitat and wildlife. They zip lined, swam in the ponds and laughed from early morning to late into the night.
During the late night chats God spoke clearly in so many ways. It was an amazing time of caring, sharing and tears. Girls fought through fears and worries, they let go of things that had kept them from who they wanted to be. On the last night as we sat around the living room seven girls accepted Christ, two reaffirmed their love for Him and I can honestly say it was one of the most powerful times of my life.
I was blessed to see the love of God and the Holy Spirit move mountains over that week. To top it off we prayed on the way home for God to lead us to a small café for lunch. Why pray for that you ask, I am not sure, we just did. He took us off the highway to a small café at two-o’clock in the afternoon and we met the most wonderful couple who had been praying for customers!
To just absolutely show us “When He Reins, It Pours” they told us they had been saving a portion of their earnings at the café to donate to a nonprofit Christian group and they handed us a check for $200. Wow.
As we move forward with this program He is convicting us to make sure we stay on point, that as long as it is about Him – He will pour out His blessing upon us. Right when we think we know where He is taking us, it changes.
Lord we pray for your will in all our works, we pray for You to bring us the kids we are charged to love on. Fall hunting and adventure begins soon. We leave the summer camps with one saying that He gave us that sticks with us, “when He reins, He pours.”
