Wednesday Night

Hey all you listeners out there in radioland… This is Erock signing on for the Erock’s Hume Lake update hour. As for Wednesday we had some crazy times. I’ve been having an interesting challenge with the guys in my cabin this year, which is getting them to STAY asleep. Weird problem I know… I just have bunch of guys that like to wake up at 6 am. I don’t get it. So after yelling at them to go back to sleep we went to breakfast. The mission’s speaker for chapel I felt was especially good this year. His name is PK and works for Hume Lake international. He challenged kids to realize that they can reach out to their friends in their own neighborhood. Recreation time was super loud and super crazy and rocked everyone’s face off. Super Ultimate Spirit day with a bajillion relays (4 relays) and hundreds of middle schools dressed up like robots and screaming like spazes (I know you all wish you were here). The Super awesome ROBOSLAM did really well, boosting them up in the standings. After that came lunch. I’ve been having goofing off at the meals and having some good conversations. Free time I competed in the camp foosball tournament with Nick, one of the guys from my cabin and we totally won it, boosting the ultimate team ROBOSLAM, up in the standings. After all the excitement I was able to partake with Pastor Dave in one of the most amazing gifts that God has ever given mankind. After our nap, we went and got some smoooooothies and then went off to dinner. Apparently they like to see people in pain here at camp because they had ANOTHER belly flop competition off the diving board this time. Despite the pain of it I usually have fun doing this one. Sammy, one of the guys in my cabin did it for our team and he pulled off a pretty good score. I went for the counselors and did was I felt was a solid flop. Kathy captured it on video. Maybe we can share it. Chapel seemed to connect with a lot of kids tonight that was NEET to see. We’ve had some good conversations with kids in the cabin because of it. What I love is that we are able to talk about what the speakers are saying and hopefully help the kids to understand a little more and critically think about it, rather than just take it at face value. So after chapel we had the super secret scary night game. The counselors had to go hide out in the woods while the kids came to find us and we gave them a coin, which they had to take back to their team bucket. Pastor Dave, Bayne, and I (good grammar ☺) had a great spot and we just hid out in the woods and talked as loud as we wanted because we knew we would never be found. Anyway, the game proved to have a good turn out for the amazing team, ROBOSLAM, which really boosted them up in the standings. The camps reward for the night game was a night swim, which was pleasant for the counselors as it made the kids less stinky. That night was a good time for our cabin. A lot of guys stayed up late with me memorizing Bible verses. We got a lot done which should really boost the incredible team, ROBOSLAM, up in the standings. It was a lot of fun. The kids slowly drifted off to sleep at a late hour, but it was okay because today was sleep in day. Anyway, I don’t want to ruin the next chapter the exciting saga of the Hume lake blog. Tune in next time when we reveal the exciting conclusion of the Saint Matthew Hume lake adventure extravaganza. Will ROBOSLAM show how amazing they are and bring home the win? Will any kids vomit during the mystery munch? Will the kids set a new record for the amount of wagon time received? And will Kathy and Heather finally get their kids to take a shower? Find out next time on SMLCMSHLSB (Saint Matthew Lutheran Church Middle School Hume Lake Super Blog). Thanks for listening!
-Erock

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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