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So camp has started and the past two days have been full of training for us leadership staff. We are doing a podcast series on this guy called Britt Merrick who is a pastor in Southern California. He is young and a surfer and his story is incredible. If you get the chance to check him out go to his website www.biggodbook.com and his podcasts are on there. Britt shares a story about his daughter getting cancer. The podcast is a sunday morning service where he is sharing with his congregation about how he found out his daughter had cancer that last monday. wow. so this is still very fresh. His daughter is 5 years old and she had a tumor in her abdomen the size of a football. He was talking about how faith is proven even stronger in suffering, and how him and his wife are experiencing that when after they prayed for immediate healing they didn't see it. i could go on about this man and the amazing way that he sees suffering and the amazing way that he is dealing with the most tragic event in his life but i just want to say one thing that really stood out to me. The night before his daughters surgery he was praying and he said to God "God i love my daughter, but i love you more. If she dies tomorrow in surgery nothing will change between you and I." wow. can you imagine saying that? Being so confident and trusting in God your father that even the death of your own child could not change your attitude towards Him. James 1:2 talks about having joy in troubles and suffering. Joy. Joy. Joy because we know who our Father is, Joy because we have faith, Joy because we can't fix it so what else can we do, Joy because happiness isn't an option. our country to of prayer for yesterday was Afghanistan where 93% is unreached. where there are 29,074,395 Muslims and 0.05% are christians. They definietly need prayer. There is so much learning going on more to come......