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This week:

	Update from last week
	Welsh language camps
	Update on camps currently running
	Please pray for Geraint Rees
	The week ahead

Thank you for your continued prayers for this year's Camps. It is a great encouragement to all of us. We do believe that we are seeing God at work, and we know that usually God starts His work by stirring up saints to pray. Please be persistent in prayer!

Update from last week

Last week we brought you very brief news from Bala, where Gareth and Siân James were leading a camp for 10-12 year olds. It's their fortieth – and last – camp, though Gareth claims he's not old enough to have served for forty years, and the milestone was only reached through doing two camps a year for several years! After the camp, Gareth emailed to say:

We were blessed with a week of fantastic weather which allowed us to get out and about for the activities and the trips. The camp was great fun and new friendships were made for both campers and officers. The ministry was first class and at the level for the children with both the gospel being clearly shown and Christians left in no doubt about the need to go on and grow. There was a seriousness about the things of God and it affected many on the camp, with at least one girl coming to know the Lord. We can but thank God for His goodness and mercy over the past week and pray that these would be known by other young lives in the time ahead.

Welsh language camps

This coming Saturday both our Welsh language camps will be starting – a camp for 11-13 year olds in Quinta, led by Huw Pritchard and Bethan Davies, and one for 14-18 year olds in Bala, led by Dafydd Cunningham and Amanda Griffiths. Please pray for them, their team of officers, and the two chaplains: Geraint Morse and Martin Williams.

Update on camps currently running

This week is the busiest of the camp season, with 125 campers at three sites. Stuart Olyott, the EMW's pastoral director tries to visit several camps each year to encourage those who are serving, and has managed to visit all three of this weeks' camps. He returned very encouraged with the spiritual note of each of the camps, with a spirit of prayerfulness and seriousness being present at each one. We hope to bring your more news from each of these camps next week, but for the meantime, please continue to pray – particularly for young people who know they are being spoken to, but who are still attempting to resist grace.

Please pray for Geraint Rees

For several years the father and son team of Tony (pictured) and Matt Rees have helped both EMW and CCIW camps by providing excellent outdoor activities at a fraction of the cost of most licensed providers. This year, however, Tony will be unable to work with the camps as he normally would. His youngest son, Geraint, has been fighting against cancer since the beginning of the year, and the family recently learned that his initial six-month period of chemotherapy had been unsuccessful. Tony will therefore be caring for Geraint throughout the summer. Matt, in the meantime, has taken on additional work, despite the pressure of his concern for his brother.

Geraint has just started a second, intensive, course of chemotherapy. Please do pray for him, and for all the family.

The week ahead

As well as the camps work, this Saturday sees the start of the EMW's Annual English Conference, where hundreds of young people (and some slightly older!) will be gathering together. Several of those involved in camps will be attending – some to recover, some to rest before they go, and a few to work with the young people! Many campers will also be in attendance with their families or friends. Please pray for each of the preachers, and pray that all those who attend would know God's blessing, and that the work of camps would be consolidated.