This camp that I love- part 1

Once again,
God gave me the oppurtunity to serve at a local Christian camp. This was my third summer working there, and each year I fall more in love with it. Each year I become closer to the other staff, and each year God has taught me different things. This year He taught me patience and taking my thoughts captive (both of which I struggle with) . He placed me in the middle school camp as a counselor (last year I served in the middle school camp as a counselor in training, and loved every minute.) I served along with four other girls, three of which were already good friends of mine, two of those being from my church. The other girl, which I'll introduce to you, became my good friend very quickly.

This is Bri. We became friends pretty much instantly!

We as girl counselors had around twenty campers and were beyond blessed by them! There were also around twenty in the boys part of the camp. Guys and girls had meals, game time, and evening service together, so we all became pretty close. The days were long and tiring, going from about 7:00 a.m.-11:00 p.m. However, they were filled with fun activites and lessons learned. (for the counselors as well as the campers.)


My friend Katie and are ready!

After the campers arrived, we went right into orientation, dinner, camp pictures, tent time, game time... well, you get the picture. Something the campers had to do during orientation was some improv. Let me tell you, it was pretty amusing!



The first, the "Hitch hiker" improv.

This was one a marriage counselor improv. They had to get the marriage
counselor to guess what the what the problem was.
My friend Ellen there was the "wife". We were all laughing hysterically by the end of it.

The next four days went by so fast! Even though each day consisted of something like this:

Wake up, devotions,breakfast,workshop (I'll explain what that was in a moment), life lessons, activity,activity, lunch,rest,swimming,free time, dinner,game,free time, and evening service.

The last night, Thursday night, the teen campers were going to lead the evening service for the
elementary campers. They did puppets, drama, and worship. So every morning from Tuesday-Thursday, they would practice those things. My friend Katie and I were in charge of drama,
along with two guy counselors. Let me say how much I enjoyed it! How much I enjoyed working
with those teens! I'll post pictures of Thursday and how it went later this week.

There is a glimpse of my week at camp. Keep an eye out for more, including pictures!

                                                 Until then,
                                                                  Josie