Day 4...Clearly That's A Bobsledding Unicorn!

I can't believe our amazing week is coming to an end. It seems like yesterday we were loading the buses in Pittsburgh. Wednesday ended up being an incredible day packed with a ton of laughs and a ton of sand. Our day started out like the others with Bible study, breakfast and seminars but then they had the entire camp load up on buses and taken down the road to the beautiful beaches of Lake Michigan. At the beach, our teams competed in the infamous Surf City beach games. Unfortunately, our Tug-of-War winning streak sadly came to an end this year. I guess that's what happens when your team dominates every year and gets a little overconfident! We lost...we didn't have a prayer. However, we would totally redeem ourselves in the sand-sculpture competition. This year our team is called the Yellow Bob-sledding Unicorns and so we thought it would only be appropriate to build a sand bob-sled for our sculpture...complete with Hannah Steffey driving. It looked magnificent. The judges gazed upon it in all it's glory and were speechless. I'm not quite sure it was for the reasons we had hoped... but we were proud of our work nonetheless.

After having lunch on the beach we headed back to camp for some more tubing, swimming and barging. A lot of our time in the afternoon was also spent around tables laughing until we cried. We told stories and shared memories of embarrassing moments to the point where some had to get up and leave before they created a new embarrassing story about the time they peed their pants at camp! I don't want to mention any names... but it may rhyme with Felektra. My abdomen is seriously sore from laughing yesterday.

In the evening we went to Club and heard the amazing story of what Jesus did to give each of us new life. Jayson talked about how some things must die for others to live. The same is true for our lives... things in our life must die in order for us to truly live... lies, hate, grudges, selfishness. It was powerful. Students wrestled with the realization that their lives matter and if they are ever going to experience what God really desires for them, they must move past the broken pieces. Then we sent the students out for 20 minutes of silence to reflect on what it would take to accept Jesus free gift of grace and begin the process of fixing that which is broken in the world. We had some great conversations and students made the decision to follow Jesus. It was a great night.

Thanks again for thinking about us and praying. It's been a great week and God is doing some amazing things in the lives of our students. One more day left!