...camp highlights (and lowlights)...

HIGHLIGHTS

• getting to know and develop relationships with more youth (and adults), renewing relationships with youth I already knew
• 15 accepted Christ as their Lord & Savior and then were baptized on Friday!! PTL!
• it was overcast and breezy most of the week!!! really great weather!
• my team got 3rd in acquire the tire and 5th in the tribal trek
• great preaching, great worship!!!
• lots of free time to chill and hang out in the river...sooo relaxing!
• tuesday night they recreated a life size replica of the tabernacle, with the outer courtyard, holy place, and holy of holies. including the table of showbread, menorah, clothing to dress the high priest, alter in the courtyard, arc of the covenant, ten commandments & rod of Aaron that went in the arc. it was really cool, i just wish the kids had understood more the significance of it all, but I think they got the idea that we no longer need a high priest, Jesus was our sacrifice, and that's the main thing.
• the camp eagle staff served us and cleaned up after us for breakfast and dinner each day!!! it was amazing!

LOWLIGHTS

• there was a cleaning Nazi in my cabin, and all the girls had to miss free time just to keep the cabin clean each day...lame, that's just not camp to me!
• the camp eagle people that were assigned to my group weren't very energetic and my group was already kind of aloof, so they didn't always get into the adventure rec team building activities. but by the end of the week, i realized we had bonded and were much closer than we had been on Monday :)
• I had a few minor ailments, like foggy vision (sunscreen in my eyes, i think) for a day and a half, landed on my back off of the blog and was sore for a few days, then fell off the zip line that went over the water and got a little bruise on my hand, and now i have chiggers. really none of it was horrible, but I don't usually get that beat up!
• several of the other sponsors had way more major injuries than i did, one guy had 4 stitches to the head and tore his ACL (2 separate accidents), Will busted his ear drum, and Jerome's hand is swollen to almost 2x its size.

It really was a great week!!! Such a joy and pleasure to get to be a part of it!!!

Now I'm headed to Waco, because on Monday my sister is inducing labor, and I will get to meet my nephew, Cole!!! I'll post pics of camp, and baby Cole when I get back!!!

Super Duper: sleeping in my own bed

Super Pooper: back to the daily grind, the illusion that I actually get a summer vacation is over