The more time Ellie spent with her huddle, the more she became comfortable around the people who at first seemed random. The night her huddle leader, Keziah, shared her testimony was the turning point for Ellie – for camp and in her walk with God. Ellie said, “Keziah’s testimony was similar to mine in how she lost someone close to her. She had been mad too. I thought, ‘that is what I’m going through.’” Other huddle members shared about difficult things in their lives as well, and while no one’s story was just like hers, Ellie realized they were all walking through hard things, and she wasn’t alone.
She recommitted her life to Christ that night in large part because of Keziah’s story.
And Keziah, a busy college student, almost didn’t come to camp because she had already missed three weeks of work due to other commitments. And for the first couple days of camp, she wasn’t sure whether her huddle was being impacted. She said, “My group was very surface-level at the beginning and didn’t want to dig any deeper.” Though slightly discouraged, she kept pressing on and saw fruit halfway through the week.
She said, “Testimony time is when our group finally started to open up. My huddle shared some tough things.” It was during that sharing time that Keziah began to see how and why God had orchestrated her being at camp.” He placed her in that huddle at that time to be able to share her heart with Ellie and the rest of her huddle and see lives transformed. She was simply open to sharing her story, and God used what she had walked through to reach others with His love. She said, “It’s amazing to see how God works through my uncertainty in coming to camp.”
