This is one in a series of posts from the six Kentuckians volunteering at the first ever overseas Reading Camp this year in Grahamstown, South Africa. Bishop Stacy Sauls, Ginger Sauls (teacher), Mary Jane Amick (nurse), and three counselors (Drew Eclov, Connor Egan, and Vibh Forsythe) have joined the South Africans on the Reading Camp team for an overnight camp at the Assegaai Trails Conference Center.
Through Bishop Stacy Sauls has relayed a story of an event that happened at 4:30am this morning at the South African Reading Camp. Usually, when there’s an event at 4:30 in the morning it’s not a good thing, but this one is a little different.
Counselor Connor Egan woke up this morning at 4:30am. He was sleeping in a cabin area with several children and just felt like he needed to wake up. It was a gut feeling that he should wake up, so he did. He turned over and bed and looked and all of his campers were fully dressed and with the light on. Connor asked them what was up and the campers said:
“We’re ready to go read Connor!”
The students were so excited after 2 days of camp to learn to read that they were fully awake and dressed at 4:30 in the morning on the third day of camp.
Stories like these bring tears to the eyes and are just why we do this wonderful thing called Reading Camp.
No word yet on how/if Connor got the boys to go back to bed!
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