A Feeling In Her Heart

There’s a peace at the camp in Zakosciele that is hard to find in the hustle and bustle of city life. You can see the stars in the sky at night, and you can hear the Polica River flowing gently by the campground. If you can’t relax here, you need help.

For Roberta Daraskeviciute, the peace at the PROeM basketball camp is something completely different.

 “When you come here, there is a strange feeling inside of you. When you go back home, and you don’t have Christian friends, you don’t have that. When I come here I feel so good. All the people are so nice to you.”

That peace comes from a comfort she gets when she interacts with other campers. She’s been coming for seven years, and she’s starting to realize that it’s something she wants. She originally came just to play basketball, not having any idea that it was a Christian camp.

“When we got to the first meeting, I realized that it was a Christian camp, and that was strange for me,” she said. “When we were eating, all the campers were praying. I wondered what was happening.”

But she keeps coming back, now for seven years in a row.

“I really like playing here,” she said. “I bring home really cool stuff. So it’s fun.”

She says her family is not Christian, though they will say they are. She says that she has not yet accepted Jesus as her savior, but the smile on her face when she says that lets you know that she’s almost there.

“I didn’t think before this camp that Jesus was for me,” she said. “Now I’m asking a lot of questions, and I’m waiting to learn the answers.”

The great thing for people like Daraskeviciute is that she doesn’t have to get her life in perfect order to be able to have a relationship with Christ. She understands that Christ will meet her where she is, when she’s ready.

“Yes, I understand that,” she said.

When that day comes, that will bring more than a strange feeling inside of her. It will bring a perfect peace.