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This week:

	Camps Training Day Saturday 14th March, Malpas Road Evangelical Church
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In contrast to when I wrote my last Camps Prayer letter the sun is shining beautifully this morning, the spring flowers are responding in glorious colour and the summer doesn't seem so far away! So it is a real relief that the camp brochures are finally out and camp preparations are now full steam ahead! Just one main matter to ask you to pray for this month and that is the training day.

Camps Training Day Saturday 14th March, Malpas Road Evangelical Church

Second only to the camps themselves this is the most key event in the EMW Camps calendar. It is an opportunity for fellowship, worship, enabling and praying for those who will be serving on the camps in the summer. Attendance in recent years has been around the 100 mark which is about 50% of those who help on camps. The buzz around the building as people catch up, sing and learn together is electric and it is one of the higlights of my year. The programme for this year is below:

09.30 a.m. Breakfast
10.30 a.m. Praise, Preach & Prayer and EMW Update - Led by Ed Collier, Preacher Colin Tamplin
11.30 a.m. Session 1
12.30 p.m. Coffee
1.00 p.m. Session 2
2.00 p.m. Lunch break
3.00 p.m. Team Prayer
3.15 p.m. Session 3
4.15 p.m. Prayer
4.30 p.m. Coffee & Depart

For New Officers the basics will be covered in the following three areas:
Session 1 Induction to EMW and Camps - Andrew Rees
Session 2 Child Protection - Nigel Dando
Session 3 Bible Studies - Glyn Ellis

For experienced officers (those who have done 1 camp before):
Session 1 Here to serve – discipline and relationships - Glyn Ellis
Session 2 Character counts - Steve Hadley et al
Session 3 Choice from:
A) specific child protection issues - basic counselling, listening to campers - Dan Owen and Naomi George
B) Great activities and fresh ideas - Steve Hadley
C) Activity leadership – ‘have I thought about...?’ - Matt Rees
E) Programme awareness & evening entertainment - Aled Williams
F) ‘I’m a cook – what’s my place on the team?’ - Sharon Barnes and Jess Warburton

For Chaplains:
Session 1 How to pastor the camp team - Paul Gamston
Session 2 How to prepare Bible Study notes and how to train officers at the team day - Jeremy Bailey
Session 3 Leadership Conference – Promoting and Growing Camps - Dave Roberts

For Leaders, Ladies Leaders and Assistant Leaders:
Session 1 How to pastor the camp team - Paul Gamston
Session 2 What are the biggest challenges and needs of my campers - Mark Barnes
Session 3 Leadership Conference – Promoting and Growing Camps - Dave Roberts
 

Please pray for:

• Safe travel as folks will be coming from all over Wales and England
• Enabling for all those leading the various sessions
• Fresh vision for the work
• A real sense of unity as we seek to serve Christ together

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Paul Gamston

English Camps Committee Chairman