But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 One thing that God really taught me at training camp was that the Holy Spirit is real and present in my life. Growing up in the church, I’ve always known of and “believed in” the Holy Spirit but I never really put much stock in it – it was just that other one in the Trinity. I didn’t hear God speaking to me through the Holy Spirit and I didn’t see its work in my life. In the time we spent as a group, Jessie, Bryan,...

Training Camp: We haven’t showered, we all have poison ivy, our pee is blue, our leaders spit water on us, slap our feet, pole dance, throw mud at us, and scratch our chins. No, but really. We didn’t shower for the first two days of training camp. We stood in poison ivy during one of the team building activities (but none of us ended up with it! So don’t worry.). The water in the port-o-potties was blue. One of the other team building activities was to teach us how to communicate with other cultures, and this involved them spitting water, slapping our feet, and...