Hey Guys!!!! Camp is neat! It’s been so much fun except for all the crazy middle school kids here. I keep telling the other counselors that camp would be so much easier if there were no kids here. Just kidding. The kids are awesome although crazy. The guys are pretty much all in one cabin with one partial wall that separates our group.
We had a pretty late night last night but today has been great so far. In chapel this morning we dove into the story of Daniel when the staff did a pretty goofy Viking rendition of the beginning of Daniel’s story.
Recreation got kicked off today as well with some relay games. We got some pictures of that so check those out.
During free time some kids rented canoes and kayaks and went out on the lake. I spent a good deal of time on the pond going off Noah’s Nightmare (a giant rope swing) and launching some kids off the blob. Kathy and Pam got some great pictures of some of the kids so check those out as well. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to what God is going to do in the kid’s lives this week. It will be amazing to see. It’s just the first full day and we are already starting to have some good discussions with the kids. So now we are about to head to dinner and have some of the most delicious food I’ve ever eaten in my life (sarcasm). I hope that everything is going well back home. Please pray that God will do amazing things in kid’s lives, which I know He will. Thanks. BYE GUYS!!!!!!!!!
-Erock
Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Sunday Night
It was a nice and uneventful ride and we made it up safely to Hume Lake by 3 pm and got checked in, went to our cabins and most of us went swimming.
This year there is a new worship band called Chasing Cadence. They started off our opening chapel with a powerful high-spirited worship set.
This week's speaker is Dathan Brown (no relation to Chris who spoke during the high schooler’s week in Ponderosa) who is the youth pastor at EV Free Church in Fullerton, CA. For the first time Hume has a universal theme (Isola: Alone at the End of the World). So the middle schoolers are also looking at the story of Daniel. Dathan challenged the students to be more like Daniel and stand alone when needed and to not just be a part of the crowd.
The opener was amazing (we had a lot better seats than the week the high schoolers were at Ponderosa). This year the opener was held out at the pond (behind the Ark in Meadow Ranch). The setting was a peasant village that ended up being besieged by Vikings. Mandy Klem (one of the Hume staff from Saint Matthew) was one of the village peasants and Aaron Davidson (one of the Hume staff also from Saint Matthew) set a guy on fire up on Noah’s Nightmare (the rope swing platform) and shot flaming arrows at the Viking long boat. It was pretty spectacular. All of our students, who wanted, got signed up for Paintball and High Adventure.
Well I’m off to the Youth Pastor’s meeting. We'll post some pictures tomorrow.
PD et al.
This year there is a new worship band called Chasing Cadence. They started off our opening chapel with a powerful high-spirited worship set.
This week's speaker is Dathan Brown (no relation to Chris who spoke during the high schooler’s week in Ponderosa) who is the youth pastor at EV Free Church in Fullerton, CA. For the first time Hume has a universal theme (Isola: Alone at the End of the World). So the middle schoolers are also looking at the story of Daniel. Dathan challenged the students to be more like Daniel and stand alone when needed and to not just be a part of the crowd.
The opener was amazing (we had a lot better seats than the week the high schoolers were at Ponderosa). This year the opener was held out at the pond (behind the Ark in Meadow Ranch). The setting was a peasant village that ended up being besieged by Vikings. Mandy Klem (one of the Hume staff from Saint Matthew) was one of the village peasants and Aaron Davidson (one of the Hume staff also from Saint Matthew) set a guy on fire up on Noah’s Nightmare (the rope swing platform) and shot flaming arrows at the Viking long boat. It was pretty spectacular. All of our students, who wanted, got signed up for Paintball and High Adventure.
Well I’m off to the Youth Pastor’s meeting. We'll post some pictures tomorrow.
PD et al.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Welcome
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