Victoria Ministries

“In a setting separate from their daily routine, with an opportunity to shed the expectations and pressures of others, campers are freed up to truly be themselves, to live above artificial limitations and blossom into who they were created to be.” http://thepowerofcamp.com/

Have you ever had to reset one of your electronic devices? It had simply gotten too jammed with too many photos, info or apps and needed to get cleared away to once again set off into its purpose. Well that is one of the benifits of a season at a camp.

As stated in the opening paragraph, camp serves as a atmosphere void of the daily expectations, pressures or roles participants have in their daily routines. In a well planned camp program, participants will be able to step out of their comfort zones, creating an atmosphere of great potential for overcoming their fears of the unknown, learning, reflecting and setting new challenges.

Added to this, the opportunity to see and hear the Gospel in not only the Bible studies but also amongst staff, in the program and abundantly through nature, create a extremely unique and real setting for transformation.

With this impacting experience called CAMP behind participants, as they return home, a new set of parameters has been established in their minds and behaviors and for those that take advantage of this, a launch of their new selves happens setting them forwards to new horizons in life.

The year of 2020 was certainly a harsh surprise for everyone. At Victoria Ministries we saw numbers of participants in our programs drop from 2719 to 183. This year though we were able to serve 972 people. This encouraging increase comes as a blessing from your prayers and financial participation in this ministry and the hard work of the staff that serve here.

For 2022 we look forward to what the Lord is going to bring our way as many people in Brazil are suffering from mental health issues due to the Covid-19 trauma. Camp ministry offers the perfect setting for a time of peace and relief in the midst of God’s creation.

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Since March 2020 Victoria Ministries has gone through many challenging moments. With the chaos that Covid-19 brought church retreats were postponed, camp ministry training events got canceled and uncertainty brought fear and doubt. It was definitely a wild ride but God has once more proven His love, compassion and loyalty to us here at Victoria Ministries. As churches, individuals and schools start to come out of isolation we have high expectations to what the Lord is bringing for the Ministry in 2022. As we look back these two past years were not easy ones much less pleasant but God certainly used and is using them to teach us how much He loves us and that many ministry priorities we had were not really His. So as we look back and thank God for all he did we also look forward and humbly ask Him to guide us into His will here at Victoria Ministries.

For 2020 and 2021 all of us must really put this quote into practice. With so many unknowns it is easy to get discouraged and loose focus on the fact that God IS in control. At Victoria Ministries we continue to push forward as we seek to be good stewards of what God has entrusted us. None of us need to always understand everything. We are called to trust God and know that as He sits in eternity He knows all. Now is the chance to live this truth out in your life.