Medley6Pack
  • Home
  • Clean
  • Design
    • Program Ads
  • Events
    • Graduation
    • Summertime
    • July 4th
    • Back to School Prayer Walk
    • Baby Showers >
      • Girls
      • Boys
    • Birthday Parties >
      • Amazing Race
      • Mine Craft
      • Pirates and Mermaids
      • Princess Tea Party
      • Puppy Party
      • Space
      • Top Spy
    • Cub Scouts
    • Girl Scouts
    • Holiday Parties >
      • Mothers Day
      • Fathers Day
      • Valentines
    • Sports Team Mom
  • Photography
    • Gallery
  • Blogs
    • Mom's Blog
    • Cooking with Mom
    • Kids Views
  • Shop
    • Custom >
      • PDT
      • Medley 6 Pack Logo
      • Above and Beyond
      • Blue House
      • Clint & Sons
      • Eric
      • Harmony Culture
      • JMR Store
      • Party
      • Custom TABC
      • WE Homes
      • Urban Bricks
    • Holidays >
      • July 4th
      • Valentines
      • Wedding
    • Family >
      • Baby
      • Chore Chart
      • Toddlers
      • Youth
      • Teens
      • Mom
    • Travel >
      • Cruise
      • Lubbock
      • Travel Planner
    • Inspirational >
      • Christian
    • Careers >
      • Law Enforcement
      • Music
      • Resturant
    • School >
      • PreSchool >
        • PreK Busy Books
        • PreK Graduation
        • PreK Pretend Play Doughnut Shop
        • PreK Pretend Play Lemonade Stand
        • 100 Days
      • Black and White
      • Teacher Appreciation
      • Seniors
      • Chemistry
      • College
      • Shallowater Mustangs
      • Coronado Mustangs
      • Llano Jackets
    • Sports >
      • Baseball >
        • Academy
      • Homerun Salsa
      • Football
      • Track
      • Volleyball
  • Books
    • Amazon Author Page
    • Birthday Journal
    • Positive Talk
    • Senior Year
    • Gratitude Journal
    • Road Trip Planner
    • Busy Binders
    • The Texas Places You'll Go
    • I Saved the Petals >
      • Petals Preview
    • If You Give Eric a Chilton
    • Devotionals >
      • Christian Couples
      • Bases of Faith
      • Changed Life
      • Read Me When
      • Loving Others
      • Prayer Journal
      • Family Bonds
      • Journey to Purpose
      • Gratitude Journal
      • Self Care
      • White Knuckling Promises
      • Advent Devotional

What Happens at Camp?

7/22/2017

0 Comments

 
Days start early. Breakfast served family style followed by a youth leader meeting to talk about the theme for the day. While we were meeting, Zack met with the youth for quiet time. Then we all met up again for morning celebration.

Morning Celebration starts with silly skits, spirit competitions, and some shenanigans. 

When it's free time, take a nap, because you'll need it. It all starts again early the next day.
Picture

Celebration

Twice a day, we meet with everyone else at camp, about 2,500 others, for worship. It was always incredible. As I asked the youth what their favorite part of camp was, student after student, told me worship. It was phenomenal to watch our kids worship with total abandon.

They dove into the Word like it was finals time, cramming every bit they could in before the closing prayer. Students were not only attentive, but enthralled with the speaker, the content, and their Savior.

After Celebration in the evening, we had a meeting with our whole church group. Wednesday Zack invited a man who was a Compassion International sponsored child and is now working with Compassion, just finished his Bachelor's degree in Accounting, and is serving his people back in Kenya as a pastor.

Spirit Competitions

Each church is added to one of four spirit teams. This year we were Green Rumble... and we went for it. We like to win! You were green, paint yourself green, yell for green... all week long. We saw capes and tutu's, tribal paint, and even fanny packs! in team colors!

Rec Time

Water Day

Each day at Rec students play and are challenged It's just for fun - lots of fun. At the end of Rec there is always a devotion, led by one of the camp staff.

The first day was water day and each station was designed to soak the kids. They played with sponges, tarps, baby pools, and lots and lots of water.
Mud Day

This was the most fun and most logistically awful day. Trying to get 60+ girls through 8 showers in 30 minutes was a challenge. Zack told the kids to wear clothes that they could just take to the dumpster.

Quite a few were hesitant, at best, about mud day, but after it started they were all in. The looks on their faces - and mud in the eyes and ears - speaks volumes about how much fun they each had playing in the mud.
Squad Wars

This day was Shallowater against like 5 other churches and we dominated. Over 96 tasks were arranged at various stations, each with a point value attached. Points earned plastic ball in baby pools. Upon the completion of your task, you were allowed to move "points" from their pool into your pool. Whole team challenges offered opportunity to earn lots of points all at once.

Our students were in it to win it. When it was announced they we won at the end the students even sung the fight song - twice! 

After the devo this day, Zach encouraged the students to do everything with that level of commitment and zeal - study, worship, play.. .all of it.  

RELATIONSHIPS

Time away. Time with your thoughts. Time with Jesus allows for room for relationships to form, others to strengthen, and others to heal. It was amazing, but not surprising, to watch the Lord work in the lives of the students and heal some deep hurts. He brought people together to inspire one another and light fires to take what they've learned with them into the school year.

Travel

Adventure is typically a given when you move 100+ people 5 hours on way and this trip was no different. At least one bus over heated each way, Jeremy told football stories from back in the day, and we watched movies - and mostly slept - to pass the time.

Leadership

Each morning these group leaders would meet with others from LOTS of other churches to learn about the theme and the lesson for the day. After the meeting each day, as a group, we stopped to visit and to pray. It was a wildly diverse group - and just who God intended for this trip.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Subscribe

    Enter your Email


    Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz

    Categories

    All
    Baseball
    Boys
    Children
    Chores
    Christmas
    Church
    Church Girls
    College
    Disney
    Family
    Football
    FREE
    Gifts
    Girl Scouts
    Health
    Life Lessons
    Money
    Parenting
    Party
    Pets
    Photography
    Recipes: Crock Pot
    Recipies: Gifts
    Relationships
    School
    Teens
    Travel

    Author

    Really, I never thought that I'd say, "... table for 6, please." going to dinner with my family. I had plans to be a professor and travel the world. I moved from Missouri to West Texas for graduate school and was just passing through, when I met a man that captivated my heart and held my hand.

    Both teachers at the time, we met before Spring Break, got engaged the day after school was out and got married over Thanksgiving Break. And we shared our wedding cake top with the Labor and Delivery nurses in the hospitial when our oldest child was born. Our courtship was quick and it was exciting. And I don't think that we'd trade any of it for what we thought it might be.

    This magical adventure is more amazing than anything that I had planned.

    ​See my BlogSpot

    Archives

    January 2025
    December 2024
    September 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    November 2023
    May 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    May 2021
    March 2020
    January 2020
    October 2018
    July 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    July 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.