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A Summer That Lasts a Lifetime
The 2025 UGM Camp season is almost here, and we are excited to welcome children into an environment where they can find relationship with God and...
– to listen, to care, to seek to understand how these children’s heart wounds impacted their behavior, and to bring the gospel into everyday situations.
As an example, she told me the story of a full-scale verbal assault that took place in one of the girls’ cabins at 3 a.m. Feeling completely out of her league, she entered the fray. After lots of “she said…” and “she started it,” Alli simply asked the girls: “Is this what you want your relationships to look like for your whole life?” That question de-escalated the fighting and created space for conversation, conversation that eventually came around to our relationship with God, the problem of sin, and the beauty of forgiveness.
Alli was a great camp nurse – competently handling all the minor illnesses and injuries that arose that summer – but more than that, she was a vessel through which God could begin healing the bumps and bruises none of us could see.
~ Dennis Roach, Youth Outreach Director
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