Summer camp
Our family divided for the holiday week, Trey and Brandon staying home to get into who knows what, and Mama and Aden off to church camp.
It was the hottest week of the year so far, and the fact that we were almost on top of a rather high mountain might have only made a degree or two of difference. Indeed, camp week is brought to you by the word sweat.
I was one of five counselors over twenty kids. Overall, twenty great kids. We had your typical close quarters, smelly and hoarder-style messy rooms, skirmishes and hurt feelings, lost socks and shoes and everything else, snack raids to the kitchen, post-midnight whispers. It was exhausting and a solid reminder that you only really get to know someone when you live with them.
But we had fun. This was Aden's first year, and though he got a bit worn down toward the end, he had a blast and can't wait to come back next year. He did the Wet & Wild and Archery tracks. Wet & Wild lived up to its name and was a welcome way to cool off at the hottest part of the afternoon. Archery posed more of a challenge to him, but I was so proud that he stuck with it and caught on.
We had multiple sessions of worship each day, sometimes high-energy and sometimes calm. Our theme was that we are made in the image of God, dearly loved, completely given, and designed for a purpose. Every single thing the kids did all week was tied back to those truths, and if we're honest, I needed the lessons and reminders as much as the kids did. What a blessing it was.
The music was fantastic, which is a good thing since it's stuck in all of our heads. Aden was a dancing fool pretty much everywhere we went, eschewing the meticulously planned choreography for the floss and hype. There were some crazy on-stage games at each gathering, and Aden was able to participate in one. That was a thrill.
We splashed in the pool, slurped down watermelon, got supremely nasty in a massive shaving cream war, ate very subpar food, literally climbed a half mile up the side of the mountain four or five times a day to get to our cabin, dealt with flooded shower rooms, watched four separate fireworks displays from above, invented bunk bed games, created all sorts of inside jokes, played musical bath towels (not on purpose), and lived five days in a haze of bug spray and sunscreen.
And it really, really was fun.
For we are His workmanship
Created in Christ Jesus
For good works
Which God prepared ahead of time
For us to do
Ephesians 2:10
It was the hottest week of the year so far, and the fact that we were almost on top of a rather high mountain might have only made a degree or two of difference. Indeed, camp week is brought to you by the word sweat.
I was one of five counselors over twenty kids. Overall, twenty great kids. We had your typical close quarters, smelly and hoarder-style messy rooms, skirmishes and hurt feelings, lost socks and shoes and everything else, snack raids to the kitchen, post-midnight whispers. It was exhausting and a solid reminder that you only really get to know someone when you live with them.
But we had fun. This was Aden's first year, and though he got a bit worn down toward the end, he had a blast and can't wait to come back next year. He did the Wet & Wild and Archery tracks. Wet & Wild lived up to its name and was a welcome way to cool off at the hottest part of the afternoon. Archery posed more of a challenge to him, but I was so proud that he stuck with it and caught on.
We had multiple sessions of worship each day, sometimes high-energy and sometimes calm. Our theme was that we are made in the image of God, dearly loved, completely given, and designed for a purpose. Every single thing the kids did all week was tied back to those truths, and if we're honest, I needed the lessons and reminders as much as the kids did. What a blessing it was.
The music was fantastic, which is a good thing since it's stuck in all of our heads. Aden was a dancing fool pretty much everywhere we went, eschewing the meticulously planned choreography for the floss and hype. There were some crazy on-stage games at each gathering, and Aden was able to participate in one. That was a thrill.
We splashed in the pool, slurped down watermelon, got supremely nasty in a massive shaving cream war, ate very subpar food, literally climbed a half mile up the side of the mountain four or five times a day to get to our cabin, dealt with flooded shower rooms, watched four separate fireworks displays from above, invented bunk bed games, created all sorts of inside jokes, played musical bath towels (not on purpose), and lived five days in a haze of bug spray and sunscreen.
And it really, really was fun.
For we are His workmanship
Created in Christ Jesus
For good works
Which God prepared ahead of time
For us to do
Ephesians 2:10
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