The entrance to camp and the HS girls cabins are off to the right, The waterfront is behind me as I'm taking the picture, as is the waterfront fireside. Behind the dining hall are the ropes course, dirt biking, the paintball field and the guys cabins. To the left of the dining hall is the big grass field where most of our field games took place. On the other side of the field is the woods fireside, the skate park and Greenleaf Lodge, which has rooms around the outside where the MS girls stay and in the center is the great room where the chapels and rallies take place.
Now that you've got the lay of the land, lets talk about what happened at camp! Above is a picture of the girls from my cabin. Such pretty ladies! They are also in the small group I lead with Shareen Bouma during the school year. I enjoyed getting to know them even better.
Everyday we would get up for breakfast (before breakfast was a leaders meeting complete with coffee! Thanks to Phil's espresso cart that was there all week raising money for his daughter's upcoming YWAM trip :) After breakfast was morning chapel with speaker Dean Keust. He was a great and challenging speaker and I think he really got through to the kids. I liked the format of the morning chapels where we would break up into groups for discussion periodically. Anyway, then after chapel we would have our "family group" or cabin time followed by a group competition/game in the field. Then we had lunch, which always had a fun and silly theme. For example, the was mustache Monday and formal Friday :) Which as you can see from the pictures below consisted of the counselors wearing mustaches and tiaras throughout lunch.
After lunch there was always 5 hours of free time. Plenty of time to enjoy all the fun stuff around camp! Also, each cabin had an hour of ropes course scheduled once for the week. Everyone had to go to the ropes course, but once there you could choose to participate or not. I am happy to say that all but one of my girls at least tried!!
The week was full of fun games such as water relays and slime time! Here's a visual:
Another of the awesome aspects of camp were the evening rallies. The worship was great and had a bit of a concert like vibe to it with all the cool lighting! Matt ran the lighting by the way :) He seemed to really enjoy it and learned some new techniques while he was there. Also, our evening speaker, Christian Chapman, really brought the Word and seemed to know how to really get through to the kids. God used him in a mighty way throughout the week!
I must say that in spite of all the fun that was had, the most rewarding part of camp were the lives that were changed through the power of Christ and his love for us. There were 14 kids who accepted God for the first time and about 30 kids who decided to get baptized as a public proclamation of their faith. Here is a picture of some of them lined up ready to get baptized!
So, Anyway, that is what happened at camp!! It was a Lot of fun, and a blessing to be a part of. I can't wait to do it again! I'm also very much looking forward to our cabin "reunion"/girls night coming up!!
If you would like to see the rest of my photos from camp, you can do that here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=193534&id=512029938&l=5ed38bbc9a
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