Tuesday Around Camp

Tuesday Night

This morning team Grannybots had KP duty for breakfast so we were up early setting tables and serving up pancakes and sausages. After a wonderful time of worship and praise, we heard a talk by one of the band members named Tyler. Next for recreation we played two more games, my team played in the pool sinking other teams canoes and then another games collecting the most colored balls before the time was up. After lunch a bunch of people went to play paintball—huge smiles all around upon their return despite a few paintball welts.
After dinner was the pond competition. Heather, Eric, Austin, and Nick did a fabulous job on the belly flop competition off of Noah’s nightmare. We also had a great showing of skill and courage from Brad, Justin and P.D. on the Blob.
Tonight we had several students make a decision to follow Jesus as their Savior. It was a great moment that will be the start of a life of joy and growth in faith.
Hi to all the families who haven’t heard from their family members. Camp is fun, drinking plenty of water; food tonight was the best ever. We had chicken tacos and very good apple strudel.
(Hello sweetie, you know who you are)
-Pam

Monday Around Camp

Monday Night

Wow. This shouldn’t be sooo much fun. The kids are doing great, fears aren’t being realized, all are healthy, hydrated and happy. Today we dove a little deeper into what it means to choose a life in deep relationship with God and how choosing sin threatens that relationship by separating us from God. The kids have been glued to the speakers, which is amazing. We got our teams for recreation today. We have Monkeybots, Twistybots, Grannybots, Robotime, Robosapiens and the amazing and awesome Roboslam (Kathy and Erock’s team). We competed in recreation and cabin cleaning- can you believe one of the boys’ cabin took third place in cleanliness??? Amazing. After recreation we captured pictures of kids in the pool, daring Noah’s nightmare and launching from the blob (James went soo high). I am off to one on one time with one of my campers. This is a special time where we get to know each of our cabin mates better and visa versa. Good night.
- Kathy

Sunday Around Camp

Sunday Night

Though we got a late start leaving Walnut Creek, we arrived safely at Hume Lake, got checked in, went to our cabins and had enough free time to explore camp.
This year’s worship band is Campaign (they were over in Ponderosa last year). The have a new front man and a new lead guitarist and began our opening chapel with a high-energy time of worship through music.
This week's speaker is John Alvarado who used to serve on Hume’s staff. John is now serving in Mexico with Spectrum ministries where he ministers to children and families in poverty. This year Hume has a universal theme again, “Rise of the Kinematics.” Kinematics is the study of motion without regard to its cause. During the week we'll be looking at the topics of: who is God, humankind, who is Jesus, salvation, discipleship and the Bible. John shared with us who God is, how much God loves us and how God desires a relationship with each one of us.
Well I’m off to the Youth Pastor’s meeting. We'll post some pictures tomorrow.
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Hume Lake - Meadow Ranch Camp

Hume Lake begins on Sunday, August 10. Check in starts on the plaza at church at 8 am and is over by 8:45 am. The bus departs from church at 9 am (with or without you). Our return is by 3:30 pm on Saturday, August 16. All your forms and fees need to be turned in before you can go.