Primary Camp Wrap Up aaaaand....Junior Camp!

Primary camp was a wonderful time for campers and counselors alike! Despite being severely short-staffed, most of camp went smoothly. Our counselors rose to the challenge of being hugely outnumbered, and the extra staff worked extra hard to serve food, support counselors, run games, and anything else that was needed. When asking the campers what their favorite part of camp was, the answers varied between swimming, chapel, the slip n slide, snack shack, game time, and craft time. Really I think they were just having fun 100% of the time. This group is both our smallest (60ish kids) and youngest (1st-3rd grade).


Slip n Slide fun on a beautiful day

This afternoon (After a much-needed 28 hour break/training sessions), our junior camp kids came in- all 150+ of them. Once again, we are understaffed. Each counselor is on their own with up to 9 fourth through sixth graders. Please pray for extra servings of grace, strength, and patience for each of our counselors. Many of our staff have been here for the last camp or two, and we're getting tired and seem to have less patience than we did last week. Please pray for RENEWED energy. We are all looking forward to this camp despite the challenges. This is a fun age, where the kids are still young enough to sing silly camp songs and go down the slip n slide twenty times, but old enough to have serious conversations and dig into the Word. As always, we are praying for opportunities to share Jesus' love with our campers. So far things are going well. All of the cabins are sleeping, despite some very loud. booming fireworks going off on the beach (a week late, people), and we are ready for a big huge day of FUN tomorrow!

Middle School Wrap Up/Primary Camp Intro

Hey!

Middle School Camp has been done since Sunday, and all those of us on staff have had the opportunity to go home and rest in between camps. We had a great time celebrating the 4th with our families and sleeping in a bit. Somehow in the rest period I didn't have time to wrap up from our last camp, so here we are...

Thank you for praying for us so faithfully during Middle School Camp! Camp was awesome; the campers really connected with the messages, devotions, and initiatives. At least a few campers accepted Christ as their Savior, and many grew in their relationship with the Lord. Our team of counselors and program staff maintained energy for the whole week and formed great friendships with our campers. Most of the staff went home, and those of us left will miss them and their hearts for Jesus and people.

This afternoon we welcome about 60 campers (1st-3rd) grade. This age is super fun to work with! They are filled with energy and laughter and are hungry to have fun and hang out with their counselors and experience all the fun that camp has to offer! As with middle school, we ask for your prayer for all of our staff members: counselors, kitchen staff, leadership team, nurse, speaker, worship leader, activity leader, craft leader, and extra staff. Energy, safety, and opportunities for spiritual conversations. Pray that our campers will come with open hearts and won't struggle too much with homesickness. This is a rough age to be away from your parents overnight.

I managed to get some of our crew together for some picture so you can see who you are praying for :)

Our counselors:

Joel (He does a little of everything), Kyle (Camp director) and Nathaniel (speaker):

MaKenzie (counselor), Maddie and Katie (extra staff):

Our pictures our lacking quite a few people, but here are at least a few faces to prayer for.
Thanks everyone!