Nikos Camps Blog

Thursday Update - The craziest day of camp

Thursday was a crazy day. It began with Addie, one of our girl leaders, having to be taken to Temple to have a doctor look at a spider bite. She was bitten several days ago, and it had become infected. Thankfully the doctor told us that she just needed to be on antibiotics as a preventative and she was able to come back to camp. The swelling around the bite has gone down and she is doing much better. Keep her in your prayers as the healing continues.

Remember Vernon who had a rash (probably poison ivy) from Wednesday’s post? He had a great day – having so much fun with his tent – in fact, he was nominated for LightLady (shining Jesus’ light in words and actions) by his leaders. While fishing, he somehow had a fish touch his eye and it started watering pretty badly. By the time the afternoon activities were over, his eye was getting worse. Nurse Chris decided he needed to be sent to the hospital to have it looked at, so Ms. Jackie and one of the site staff headed in right after dinner. Please keep Vernon in your prayers – he was kept overnight so that the doctors could run tests on the infection in his eye to see where it came from and how to treat it.

With Jackie with Vernon at the hospital and several other staff members who had to head back to Austin, we were several people short for thematics. God worked it all out, every challenge went without a hitch and the short number of staff was not felt by the campers. God is good.

Please pray for our last few days at camp – for safety and health for the kids, leaders and staff. Pray for the last night of camp – there will be a lot of kids who are sad about leaving camp, and a lot who will be acting out thinking about going home. Please pray for an extra measure of grace for the leaders and an extra measure of peace in the tents and cabins tonight.

-- An update to this – Vernon is home and doing much better. The doctors never figured out what the infection came from, but he was home the same day (Saturday) as the rest of the campers. We missed him on Friday, but we’re so grateful he is healthy and that was able to spend most of camp with us.

Addie is doing really well also – her bite started healing as soon as she took the meds and treated it as per doc’s orders. Praise God for these two and their healing bodies.