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Forest Hills Baptist hosts God - centered youth camps in local township - 30 June 2010

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Volunteer missionaries hope to change lives for eternity when serving overseas for a week or two. In the process, many find their own lives changed.

ACTS Cape Town had the privilege of serving a team from Forest Hills Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, which including 18 teens and several adults, who hosted a Life Champs Day Camp with IMB missionaries in the Nyanga township near Cape Town. This area has a reputation of seeing more children murdered than any other township in South Africa.

The team was lead up by Tom Beam, associate pastor of youth and families at Forest Hills, has made many previous trips to South Africa for the purposes of service and ministry. With all eyes on South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, the team incorporated soccer into the Life Champs program but also coached local youth in basketball as well as teambuilding, music, drama, and arts and crafts. The camp averaged 170 to 200 youth daily. Each member of the team was responsible for either coaching a certain age group or leading one of the activities, like teambuilding.

In the small group sessions with coaches, Bible stories were shared and memory verses given out. At the end of the week, the Gospel of Christ was presented to the youth and many made decisions to follow Jesus. For more information please visit the IMB Soccer World Cup page at
http://worldsoccerjourneys.com.

Alexander, J. (June 29, 2010) Teens Changing Lives, Being Changed http://worldsoccerjourneys.com/features/life-champs/teens-changing-lives-being-changed/ [accessed 30/06/2010]