I’ve really enjoyed being the team leader for the photography business at Kids Can day camp. Part of my job is to take the kids out in groups to take pictures which we will be selling at the end of camp (please come and buy!). I’m amazed at how beautiful it is to see an artist emerge from a third or fourth grader. God is, if anything, a creative artist, and He has made us in his image. He has made us to create. But he has also made us to see. A camera in the hands of an eleven year old is not just a camera, it a perspective changer. I’m convinced that the kids in my group will never look at a flower, or a sign, or a person the same way. From now on they will search for the art, the grace, or the sorrow of sunsets and signs and smiles. I’m also believing that Kids Can is changing these youngsters perspectives in spiritual matters as well. On a ride to Walmart the other day to pick out picture frames I heard an interesting conversation in which a boy and a girl were “discussing” whether Jesus died on a cross and rose again. Pretty heavy stuff for these youngsters, but eternally important. I think that, for some, this camp is also changing their perspectives about God as they begin to hear that they are loved and cherished and bought with a price. I know that when Jesus became the center of my life almost 10 years ago the flowers and the sunsets began to take on new meanings and I haven’t seen them the same way since. Let’s continue to pray that in the midst of our businesses and adventures at Kids Can some would come to know Jesus as their personal Savior and Perspective Changer forever.
Chris LeMaster
Associate Director, SCYM