Day One of Camp & Construction

Day one of camp is complete! Campers were up and ready to start at 4am! We weren't. :) We were able to give every child a new pair of shoes and a Camp Allelu t-shirt. There were lots of smiles when they received these new things. We split the kids up into groups based on their ages and were able to spend some time in small groups discussing the story of the Good Samaritian, doing a craft, and teaching basic math and English. Each group came up with a chant and presented it at the evening meeting. Free time in the afternoon was filled with a low ropes course, crafts, reading, and soccer. We finished up the day with some singing and dancing to the beat of african drums! 

Construction on the bath house began today as well. The construction team worked alongside several other Christian men from Zimbabwe all day and got a good start on things. It is definitely back breaking work mixing dirt and cement. A little competition ended the day as we picked teams and raced each other to complete one layer of the walls.