Thank you all so much for your prayers and support for the camp here in the summer of 2025. As usual, Follow seeks to serve entirely unchurched and unbelieving youth, and I’m amazed every time at how God brings so many every year, primarily through advertising on platforms like Instagram. We basically just put it out there that we are doing a camp in the mountains or at a lake, and God does the rest.

Katya helped with an art class, I helped with English lessons with a guy named Thaddeus from Slovenia, and I even got to give a couple of basic boxing lessons with some practice pads that I recently bought. All of those things were catalysts towards trust and opportunities for conversations about God, truth, and the Gospel. I was also blessed with the opportunity to preach on one of the evenings and to help with worship both during the big evening program and around the camp fire. It was really cool to see how they responded to Christian songs talking about Jesus and His sacrifice.

Katya and I had many meaningful conversations with several different youth there, but the ones that were probably the most impactful were with Vlad, Oleh, and Oksana. Please pray for them and for a girl named Sophia, who actually gave her life to Jesus while serving at the camp!

Looking forward to camp next year!