Royal Family Kids’ Campä.  RFKC was founded by Rev. Wayne Tesch in 1985 to create positive memories for abused and neglected children in California.  His vision was that there would be a camp in every county. The strategy was to mobilize the local church to meet the needs of abused and neglected children in their own community by establishing and maintaining a positive relationship with County Social Services and providing a one week camping experience.  Today there are many camps across the nation providing positive memories for these children.

This is a camp that I am excited to be a part of this year.  Pastor Sean Azzaro and his wife Laurie from River City Community Church participated in this camp a few years ago before they came to live in San Antonio and were very moved by the concept of this camp.

Last summer a group of six people from RCCC went to California to observe a week at camp and to come back with ideas of how our church could participate in this wonderful project.  They have been working diligently since July of last year fund raising and organizing a camp experience for our abused and neglected children here in SA.  All their hard work will come to fruition in July with the help of dozens of volunteers.

I was asked to pray about the role that I would volunteer for and had always assumed that it would be camp nurse since that is my profession.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would be asked to be the Child Placement Coordinator.  But indeed that is the position that I was asked to fill.  After much prayer and procrastination I accepted the position.  I was assigned to talk with Social workers and foster parents about the camp, to review all of the applications and to make sure all the needed paperwork was signed and in order.   The Directors of the camp and I got together last week to match the children with the counselors they will have for that week.  This was a daunting task but with the help of the Lord, we were able to complete this very easily.

I can hardly wait for the first day of camp to arrive.  And as a bonus I will be able to go as the camp nurse. There are 42 days until the counselors and others leave to prepare for the arriving campers.  Please keep all the volunteers in your prayers that we will be able to fulfill the mission of this camp.  Also, pray for the children that will attend that they have a week of positive memories.  I will keep you posted as the day draws closer.