Dear Friends,
He came to us because of the funeral of his godmother and to pay his
last respects. He is
20 years old, plays a forward position in rugby, and by most standards a
little rude and crude. He was raised by his grandparents and having felt
rejected by his parents. He has tried to be goth and geek. He is just
looking for some place to belong and feel wanted. Sometimes he is hard
to like and sometimes he is obnoxious. He is the sort of person that
Jesus loves and died to save. He went to camp and tried our patience. I
wanted to ship him home, but then his grandmother came and got him. Then
I was disappointed because he left. Sunday night he begged to come back
to camp. We again had this contest of will, but very early Tuesday
morning Salvatore Calzette was born again. There was a total of three
saved during the camp. There was rejoicing in heaven.
We were in camp literally for three weeks. We did an experiment of
combining Jr. Camp and family camp together. It was a riot. God blessed
us with two saved that week. Our theme for family/junior camp was
Fireproof. We had a team from Harvester Baptist Church in Columbia, Md.
The pastor is Dr. Ed Simpson. They were a great group. We had them doing
games, dishes and cleaning. The team was led by Dave & Corinne Simonaire
and Matt & Jill Simpson. They were willing to work in every aspect of
camp with a great attitude.
The second week we hosted the European wide Missionary retreat. Dr John
Konnerup and Pastor Dennis Jennings from Cherry Street Baptist Church
were here for retreat. After two years without having a retreat, it was
fun to fellowship with other missionaries again. The retreat was over
Thursday morning and we started Sr. camp on Thursday night. One of our
campers was Salvatore. What a great three weeks! It was an exhausting
three weeks but it was good.
Your Missionary in Belgium,
Larry Taylor
