Message From Camp

Over 90 kids turned out for the annual SAI Summer Sports and Crafts Camp held in Ballymun last week. Though most of the day was spent playing basketball, football, rugby or doing crafts, the most valuable part of the day came when the kids settled down for a drink and biscuits while listening to various leaders telling stories that try to help build good qualities in the children. Pictured here is Coach Jamie doing a talk about how we can use our gifts to serve others, having the kids memorize a verse from the Bible. The jingle goes:

1 Peter 4:10, I have a gift and I'm servin!

Peter tells us here that every single person has a specific gift that is given to them. There are 2 questions that will help us discover our particular gifts: 1) What am I good at? 2) What do I like to do? Going around the circle, most kids shared what they like to do and what they are good at, and these are some of the various things they mentioned: math, football, listening, writing, drawing, taking pictures, video games, music, etc.. We then went around discussing the many different ways we might be able to use those gifts in order to help the people around us, and the leaders were astonished by how thoughtful the kids' ideas were. The camp was brilliant in that it gave the kids an opportunity not only to develop their gifts in sports, but to use them to benefit their teams throughout the week. Hopefully the kids will continue to keep that verse in mind and use their talents outside of sports in order to benefit everyone around them.
We all have been perfectly made and have unique gifts, but will we use them to serve other people? The choice is ours.