Is it really only Tuesday? We’ve been having so much fun that
it seems like the past 24 hours have just flown by! The day started out with
Bible study and then breakfast. Every day after breakfast we have seminars.
Seminars take place in an outdoor amphitheater and groups gather to discuss
topics and partake in different group building activities. This week we are
talking about Identity and we are helping students think about how they get
their Identity and who has the right to give them theirs.
After seminars, a team of very infamous astronauts put our
team through some very rigorous astronaut training. Our team, the “Yellow Batman Gobstoppers” had to search the
entire camp looking for puzzle pieces that gave them a map for their next
directions. Unfortunately, we didn’t think through how we split up our teams
and one group we sent out had never been to Surf City before. So needless to
say, searching a camp they didn’t know much about created a problem. The
astronauts finally let us continue with an incomplete puzzle. Yeah,…we finished
last.
Our afternoon was exciting because our crew tested their
strength and abilities on the mighty tubes. Just think about how you’d feel
being whipped around and skipping across the water behind a speedboat. It’s so
much fun watching the faces of our students as they bounce back and forth. My
favorite ride to watch was the one with Taryn and Abeni. I’ve never heard two
middle schoolers scream like that before at such a high pitch and for such a
long amount of time. Very impressive vocal chords!
In the evening we had another session at club where we
jumped around singing, watched Putt and Putt get harassed by an oversized
gopher and listened to Mark talk to us about how God, our Creator, sent His son
to earth to teach us and to be in relationship with us. A truth that I hope
becomes a reality to all of the students here at camp. Often times, students,
and even adults for that matter, can’t fathom a God who loves them so much that
He actually desires to be in relationship with them.
We ended the evening with an event that most of the guys
talk about all year long…DUNE WARS. The camp splits us up into two teams with
glow necklaces and we play a huge game of capture the flag in the dark on the
sand dunes. It’s always a fun time. One of our students, Timmy was pretty excited because he got
to keep a memento of one flag he captured. We fought long and hard and it was a close battle, but our team
was defeated.
That’s all for now! Everyone is having a great time. Check
back tomorrow for some new updates!
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