Day 1/2
My dad dropped me at Heathrow on the way back from the Lakes at 12am on Wednesday morning (19th), I sat in the Costa Coffee drinking Moccas and reading ‘Evangelism and the Soverignty of God’ until 6am when everyone else arrived. Our 8.30am flight was delayed by 3 hours, pilots stuck in Dusseldorf! So we arrived in Sofia at 5.30pm (having missed our connecting coach) then hung around in the IFES office till the next one at Midnight. We arrived at our first destination Bourgas at 5.30am. When we got up we were met by the American team and Bulgarian staff team with breakfast. We spent the day praying, planning at the beach and went out for dinner so everyone could get to know everyone else.

Day 3
We leave for Sozopol where the camp is in a hotel. Spent the afternoon getting to know the students on the project. In the evening a Bulgarian/American evangelist called Victor gave his testimony of how he came to know Jesus after the first summer camp in 1991.

Day 4
First English lesson, scary! There’s a guy in my group called Buyan who is better at English than me and speaks with a posh English accent. Also looked at Mark 1, who Jesus is. Went to the beach in the afternoon, sea is warm, waves were massive, but the beach is a hard place for a Christian guy to be!! Watched Pirates of the Caribbean in the evening and talked in groups about ’searching for treasure in life’.

Day 5
Had a small groups discussion about the ‘fish catch’ and then went on a day trip to Bourgas. I had some fried shrmips for lunch, and some very tasty Raffy Italian ice cream…. In the evening we performed our English cultural evening; a day in the life of a student, Englishmen vs Welshmen, a song about tea, an explanation of Cricket, some clips from Monty Python, and a marmite and scones (not together) tasting. It was particularly random….

Day 6
Buyan whose English is better than mine quoted from John Stott in the morning English study from Mark which was good, but made us laugh, then we talked about football. Me and Kath gave our testimonies then we talked in groups about Luke 7 (sinful woman). Went to sleep in the afternoon but woke up in time for the football competition, apartently I am a good goalkeeper! We watched Finding Nemo in the evening and discussed in our groups about ‘baing lost’ and the ‘love of a father’.

Day 7
We looked at all the different words to describe the weather in English for our lesson, something unnecessary in Bulgaria, it is just hot and sunny here. Jo gave her testimony then we talked about the healing of the blind man and Zaccheus. Sitting in an Internet cafe at the moment, off to the beach now!

Please pray for;
- our team, that we would not get too tired and would keep working together
- the American team and Bulgarian staff team
- for the Bulgarian students, that the Christians would be encouraged and grow in their faith, and the non-christians would see the witness of the Christians on the project and be saved through the teaching of the gospel