Walter and Cheryl Spicer Educating the children of missionaries 
Thank you for praying for us. We all had a wonderful time during Outdoor Education. It was an honor to be the coordinator this year. It is a huge program that involves 300 people for an entire week. We usually go to the same sites and just modify the program slightly, but this year we changed two of the three sites, plus we used different transportation. God worked everything out beautifully and we were all blessed. We had three sites: beach camp (which was our main camp), a reef site, and an island with a volcano. On Monday, everyone was together. This year we visited a Philippine high school and did a Fine Arts Festival with them, singing and playing our band instruments. After the Festival, we traveled to our Beach Site. Then we split into three traveling groups on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, rotating among the three sites.
At the beach camp we taught the students how to prepare a chicken dinner from scratch—a live chicken. In the early evening we had a ministry, involving everyone, using their different talents—playing basketball, singing, performing skits, playing little kids games, and handing out bracelets with the colors of the Wordless Book. It is an effective tool that the kids used to share the Gospel. The students did well mingling, making friends, and sharing the gospel.
At the reef, we taught them how to snorkel and gave them the option of a Discovery Dive (a short introductory scuba dive) or a craft. We also had some marine specimens for them to see in tanks and they dissected a squid. In all these activities, they learned many things about marine life.
At the volcano, they hiked inside the crater, swam in the sulfuric lake, and saw large, active fumaroles (a vent that spews water and steam that smells like sulfur).
We had a speaker every evening challenging them from God’s Word focusing on our relationship with God, our relationship with others, and our own character. It is so encouraging to hear the many stories of how God challenged so many students. One student was saved and many others have a closer walk with Christ now. Another student who hated his father is now developing his relationship with his heavenly father and earthly father. Those are the stories that make all those long days and hours that you pour into Outdoor Ed worth it.
Thank you for standing behind us in prayer,
Walter and Cheryl Spicer
