Catching Up! (Tuesday recap)

Ok, so I missed updating Tuesday for everyone, so I'll do two updates.

Tuesday was such a busy, long day! After breakfast, the students headed into the auditorium for our morning service. The morning services are a little different in that we do just a few songs, and our speaker introduces a topic that we discuss later in our church group. The topic focused on overcoming fears, especially the fear of telling others about Christ. We had a great discussion as a group together.

After group, we headed up to the gym for the basketball tournament. Chase Hite jumped on a team that won their first round game, but lost shortly afterward. He did great. He was all over the place. The talk of the camp, however, was our girls team consisting of Morgan Merkert, Erin Crowley, and Katie Kinsey. They all dressed up really funny and put their hair in pony tail buns. They then did a very intimidating warm up with some crazy passes to each other. They lived up to the hype too! They crushed through every game like they were playing 1st Graders. It was an amazing thing to watch! The whole camp started cheering for our girls! It was incredible! They won the girls tourney!

After lunch we had some big group games out in the fields and up in the gym. I'll say this. All of our boys came back from their game covered in shaving cream! Awesome! We spent the rest of the day all over the camp with free time where our kids went out on canoes and kayaks, swam in the pool, and I had the longest and most challenging game of teatherball with our guy counselor, Matt Toeneboehn! Matt won :(

The service was another home run, where our students worshipped with all of their hearts, and listened to a powerful message that spoke to thier identity in Christ, and how we can get closer to Him. Our students really connected with leading several of them to make commitment to make Jesus 1st in their lives!

After the service we had some crazy games up in the gym, followed by a basketball game that the whole camp watched: our girls vs the boys champs! Everyone, and I mean everyone was cheering for our girls! They were so happy! They did so good! At one point it was all tied up 6-6. Baskets went back and forth, with the guys finally taking the win with a score of 11-9. Everyone cheered our girls in defeat. It was like a movie! In fact, I got alot of it on video, so I'm sure you'll get to see some of it at some point!

What a great group of kids we have here at camp. I'm so pumped for them to be here! I'm so excited to see how God is moving in their hearts! Stay tuned for another update shortly!

Ron Foster