Day 3 of the 2013 IYF World Camp in New York brought new programs and new hearts to the hundreds of young participants from around the country.
Tuesday was especially notable because of the special events that were able to happen thanks to World Camp. The first was collaboration with United Way of Long Island for a volunteer project in Garden City, NY. Almost 60 IYF World Camp participants left in the morning to go to the Garden City Bird Sanctuary. From 10 to 4pm, our volunteer participants worked hard all day to clean and restore the Sanctuary from the damage of last year’s Hurricane Sandy.
In the afternoon, two events ran side by side. The first was the Parent Children’s Workshop, and the second was the 2013 IYF Culture Exhibition. Parent Children’s Workshop brought together young mothers and their children for the purpose of learning about the world of the heart and heart-to-heart communication. Sessions had already been held in Brooklyn, NY leading up to this final session. Mothers and their children had the chance to listen to Pastor’s sermon and not only open up their hearts to each other, but to the Word as well.
2013 IYF Culture Exhibition was hosted in Mahanaim’s soccer field, filling it with blue canopies, cultural booths, native games, and performances. The dances were especially a hit as teams from Jamaica, South Africa, and the First Nation of Winnipeg performed traditional and contemporary dances. Yet, the biggest hit with the audience was “Gangnam Style”, which was actually performed twice due to numerous calls for an encore.