Where's the love?!

Hey guys, 

How's things? Just letting you know that my friends wanted more details about a particular story that happens couple weeks ago. I'm not definitely a writer so apologies if I made any grammar errors, please don't judge me on that. I'm just stating facts and obvious what's God doing here. Im just passionate about Jesus and really want people to have that experience with Him. The never ending love, mercy and grace. 

USA swim coach and camp

Relaxing on my job EVERY DAY! :)

My lifeguard dog on patrol at waterfront. 

The day of the life at USA, swim coaching going swimmingly well here, I have to say activities...wow they really goes beyond expectation here. Let me summaries this for you so you get round up on the kind ideas we have here. On camp we have...hockey, lacrosse, basketball, football, swimming, water slide, arts and craft, woodwork, pottery, archery, tall ropes (go apes like adventures), trekking, farm (we have farms here, llama, donkeys etc). Canoeing, kakaying, sailing, rope swing, water ride, shame there's no wake-boarding or surfing (no waves). It's really exaggerating how much activities and specialists in their particular area and there's lot more but you get my drift. We have theme happening once a week such as Charlie and chocolate factory, cavemen night, Hawaii theme night etc. Everyone dresses up for this adventure, painting all over dining room matching themes, cup, plates so on. Overnights where each unit goes off for a night on forest with fire, cooking food. I say this again, there's no camp like this before certainly not Europe from what I've seen. America camp is place to be!

One of the many photos from event night, Charlie and chocolate factory.

This is not the reason I'm stating on this post, I must say activities, being with kids are such a blessing and it's great! What I have noticed when I arrived that I found it very difficult to fit in, I struggle to understand why it's not easy as I thought it would be. I know deaf can be a disadvantage to group conversations but I wouldn't let that get to me. I'm

confident, determined person. I found one thing that was difficult, being Christian without your fellowship was harder than I thought it was, meaning I had to rely fully on God a lot more. That made me appreciate my fellowship back in Belfast. There are roughly 150-175 staff and there aren't many Christians here from what I know now. But that wasn't only challenge, mixing with people, I found them friendly but conversation was hardly flowing at times, just lot of surface talks. I found it frustrating that there is no one generally showing love for one and another, interacting, chatting, getting involved etc. I'm not being sensitive but I just love interacting with different people from different background, nationality etc where people comes as one not groups. At times like this, it's seem everyone was the same, I couldn't find people I could really interact with for past couple weeks. But I love this quote a friend told me this: 

The greatest gift is to give time to each other. 

Totally this speaks true, I know I'm guilty for not giving enough time to people and generally sidetrack by technologies in evenings especially new gadgets ie iPhone, MacBook Pro and not interacting with my housemates, friends, parents, siblings and so on. It's incredibly distracting and anti-socialable, here at camp, mostly of them whisk out their mobiles in front of everyone and not interacting, or making time to chat. I was thinking if this was 20 years ago (camp was founded 1886) I'm sure the staff has more fun than us playing board games, interacting one another but nowadays the society is taken over by mobiles, tablet, apps, gaming, mobile apps particularly one of the app is well known subject on talks in common room. It's dating app called 'Tinder' that find people locally and already a guy from camp here hooked up with one of the girl locally here in the USA through that, who happens to be mutual friend with a staff. How awkward.

So you get my drift, being with fellowship and enjoying other people's company is amazing. It's shame to see how society is going. Although I feel people here needs know God's love for them and from what I have experiences God's love for me, is a huge difference between the me and them as though it's feels like I'm standing over the other side. Maybe I'm going over board a little but I think I realised that now. This made me appreciates my fellowship and friends back home.

I have been praying to God asking him to direct me to people who needs to hear the gospel, someone who also shares same faith as me and friends with people I get on well, I found that hard first in few weeks with people like that everyone needs that something, connecting with people. This is probably boring post but will explain why and what has been happening and how God answers to my prayers.