The Big Day!

Thursday is the last full day of camp. Everyone knows this, so we try to get the most out of our day. The day started out in it's typical way: Wake up, Breakfast, Shower, Morning Service, Small Group Time. In our morning service, we talked about Superman being the Man of Steel that can deflect bullets from his chest. We related that to how it's not so easy for us to deflect words from hurting us and our words hurting others. We had some good discussion as a youth group on this.

Following this, we headed to the Rec Room for our annual Carpetball Tournament. If you don't know what carpetball is, catch me later because it's too complicated to explain here. I'll just say it's really easy to play, and really fun. Because it's so easy, practically the whole camp plays! It was pretty cool seeing the whole camp in our Rec Room at the same time!

After lunch we had our big group games. The girls' game was so funny. They had 4 soccer balls covered in shaving cream that they had to run with and try to get into these buckets. Then, the ball would get covered in shaving cream again! These girls were covered in shaving cream, it was awesome! The guys were playing some serious dodgeball up in the gym. It was funny to see some of their tactics of staying in the game, like hiding in the corner and making themselves seem like they weren't in the game. Good times.

After the big group games were over, the real game began. I challenged our girls bball team to a 1 on 3 game. If they won, I would take our whole group for some cold drinks. If I won, they would babysit for us! Without getting into much detail, it ended up with me driving our group to get some cold drinks. :(

The night's service was awesome as usual. We saw several students come forward for decisions at the end of the service. My favorite part came next where we could take our kids for some recap time of sharing. Our students shared with each other the decisions that they had made this week. There were some hugs, some tears, and some giggles. Right after this, we did this thing I simply call "Compliments" where the students can go around and share a compliment with one of the other people in the group. This ended up being one of the longest sessions of this that I've ever done. It wasn't because they had so much to say, but because some of them couldn't make up their minds who they wanted to compliment (Brooke and Charlie), some others couldn't stop laughing (Morgan and Erin), and others couldn't stop crying (Katie). All in all it was a great night though!

The rest of the night was a bonfire where as a camp they could share decisions with each other and some late night ice cream and dodgeball in the gym. Our kids eventually got to sleep, but it was indeed a great night of camp!

Ron Foster