Middle of the week at Hume Lake and getting up and going was the hardest this morning! At least we knew what fun things awaited us once we ventured out of our warm, snugly sleeping bags! Off to breakfast at 8 and then cabin clean-up time with a decoration theme of “wiggidy-whack Wednesday!” One of our two girl cabins even won the prize for best cabin on Monday! Chapel was about missions today and going out into “all the nations,” so we had a guest speaker from South Africa. His name was Jit and he talked about the camp ministry he helps run in northern South Africa called Jabulani Africa Ministries, or JAM for short. All of us loved watching a video he brought of some of his ministry team members giving new shoes to a little African boy who had never had any before. He was smiling and screaming with joy and excitement—and it made us smile and giggle with joy and excitement too! It was awesome!
After chapel was recreation, and today was spirit day! Many people wore wacky costumes and painted their faces for the giant relay-race games out on the meadow—three-legged race, extreme leap-frog, dizzy-bat, and an over-under water game! It was a blast! After rec we were hungry again and ready for lunch.
Finally it was free time, and we all worked on memorizing the daily bible verse for about the first 15 or 20 minutes to help earn points for our teams! For the rest of free time we picked our pleasures of swinging off “Noah’s Nightmare” or getting launched off “The Blob” into the pond, swimming in the pool, trekking to the lake to jump off the big rock into the water, racing through the air and across the pond on the zip line, or even gearing up to play an intense round of paintball! Everyone met back up for dinner and enjoyed swapping stories of the day’s adventures along with comparing paintball battle wounds and other more minor (yet equally unfortunate) camp injuries.
Evening chapel was wonderful yet again. Our speaker Shawn helped us dive into Hebrews 12:1 and allowed our eyes to be opened to the weight that hinders and sin that entangles us in our lives. Shawn challenged us to consider our weights and cast them off, allowing God to take the throne in our lives instead of placing ourselves on it in lives of distraction and sin.
We ended the night with a huge game of hide-and-seek in the dark (campers searching for counselors!) and afterward got the announcement that we would have an extra hour to sleep in! Finally the day was coming to an end and we headed back to the cabins for small-group devotions and bedtime! It was another challenging, awesome, super-fun day at Meadow Ranch!
~Lindsay Pattison :o)
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