Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church of Emporia, Kansas is one of the churches that has adopted a week of camp each year. This year, the church added another opportunity for their church members to participate even if they couldn't go for the entire week. The leaders organized a group to make the three hour trip from Emporia to Camp CUMCITO in order to cover the camp in prayer.

The initial idea came about as a result of the time that Dick and Joann Gimple spent on a missions trip to Turkey. Joann said:

Prayerwalking for those in the city of Istanbul as well as the surrounding countryside as we drove through was the highlight of our missions trip to me. We knew that even though we were very small and limited in what we individually could do for the Lord in a big situation, He can take our prayers and multiply that effect many times. As we who are on the Missions Committee talked about getting more people personally involved in missions, we thought prayerwalking would offer another opportunity.

They hoped to accomplish the following with their prayerwalk:

• First and foremost was to pray God's heart-changing power and protection over all the camp -- staff, facilities, and campers,
• To Visibly support those from their church who were serving for the entire week,
• To expose more of their church family to CUMCITO -- the facilities, the vision, the objectives -- so that more may catch "CUMCITO fever", and
• To give an opportunity for their church family to experience prayerwalking.

On Sunday, July 22nd while the Primary Camp staff was involved in training for the week, the group arrived at camp and began their prayer walk. The camp office had provided the team with details about the happenings at various locations around the camp. This included the cabins, playground, chapel, craft hall, swimming pool, dining hall, infirmary, and lake area.

Click here to find out more about Camp CUMCITO and how you or your church can catch the "fever" and get involved.