RFKC

I’m unable to adequately articulate the emotions that build up in the depths of my heart as a result of God’s deep love for me. He has a way of making me feel like I can never be broken while at the same time persuading me to abandon my shield of strength so I can weep and rest in His presence. And although I can believe so deeply in Him, there is still doubt, the doubt that He is real, and the reality that most of my life has been one attempt after another to prove my worth and hide my iniquities.

I’ve filled my time with people, tasks, ministries, and desires in order to prove my virtuousness and distract myself from my fear. I was afraid of not being known to others and I feared what God would ask me to do if I truly put my trust in him because at the time, I was serving the Lord from the comfort of my perfect “Christian” life but there was something missing and I was hungrier than ever.

I was comfortable and I didn’t expect great things from God. My expectations weren’t ones in which my faith would be greatly affected had God not followed through.

When we take risks in our faith, our universe expands and our faith is forced to play catch-up. The doubt creeps in and unanswered prayers are not as easily explained away.

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Royal Family Kids Camp: My first real Risk

God created the universe in seven days; well here, we only get five. Five days to change lives not by performing revolutionary psychological or behavioral techniques but rather through the emulation of selfless love exhibited in Christ with no guarantee that our efforts will bear fruit.

For most, it doesn’t make sense that a child would run from people who are willing and desperately wanting to love them, but cry out for the one’s that don’t know how. How dare they take for granted the time that you have so graciously put aside, only to reject you for those who’ve rejected them. It would be easy to blame it on ungratefulness or a disorder but how often do we run from God?

In order to understand the significance of RFKC, one has to experience it. But maybe, by the grace of God, you can see this reality of heaven on earth.

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Why it’s important:

We become acquainted with Christ’s character first through our interactions with those who are followers of Him. This ministry is important because, as H. Richard Niebuhr describes in his triad of faith, there is a correlation between faith in people and faith in God. It is such that when these children finally come to know Christ, “…[they are] not moving from known to unknown…[they are] rather seeking to understand one known by means of another known.” RFKC is an opportunity to restore a child’s faith in adults when all previous interactions have taught them to doubt an adult’s love and question their motives.

“The Christ of faith does not wait for us to discover him….we encounter Him… And He meets us in the people we encounter…For we do not meet him incarnate but as risen. He meets us as the unseen head of a company of believers.” H. Richard Niebuhr.

I believe that what Christ does in the restoration of faith is not only to reconcile us with God but also with each other. RFKC is human work in response to the divine and this, is the church I want to be a part of. A selfless community where love is not reduced to an investment and interactions aren’t limited to a cost/reward paradigm of thought. What do I have to offer these children, what can they give to me? Nothing. All I have is the hope that somehow in my attempts to emulate Christ, his love and truth can be shown and heaven on earth can be realized.

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My outlook on life and theology up to this point can be simplified like this: God is going to do what God is going to do regardless of what I do. So, I might as well choose to be a part of his story rather than create my own.