seriously...today it has hailed & snowed. The sun is out and it is 32 degrees with wind gusts of 15+ mph. I am not a winter person. I am freezing. Aaah North Carolina...i miss you!
Buses pulling in for week 2!!To finish off what a week of camp looks like...
Wednesday - the night that never ends. The program finale (sort of) - the good guys save crooked creek ranch! Tablaeu (a frozen scene from the old west) where kids go back to their cabins and dress like what they see acted out in the scene. The highlight I must say was when Bryan and I got to ride into the tableau on a frontend loader in the bucket lifted up as high as it would go!!! So fun! Then we had an incredible dinner, followed by a carnival with games, food and cotton candy. With all the fake money you earn you can pie your leader in the face, send them to the dunking booth etc. Next we headed to the opera (the big show) where crooked creek is saved and bubba and i fall in love - Then the whole camp heads to the square dance! What a night! Kids laugh and sing and play and truly experience some full life! My kids love it too!
Thursday-Saturday - thing are still so fun but not so heavy on the program team. Thursday the whole camp hikes to the top of a nearby mountain! And they all make it to the top. We just walk with them and stick with kids - side by side until they suceed!
Friday & Saturday - kids still come to club, meet a few new characters, watch real life (a place where they hear some of our stories), Hang out with their leaders, swim, ride horses, go carts, ropes course, hot tub, frisbee golf ALL that stuff. Saturday Night at our last club we ask kids who decided to begin a relationship with jesus to stand up and say so. So we all stand and sing a song and the kids that have trusted Jesus this week for the first time remain standing while they rest of us sit down. WHAT A SWEET MOMENT for all of us! So many kids last night! Then they go around the room and say "My name is ________. And this week I gave my life to Jesus." Sweet Sweet! I cry every time! What an honor to partner in this with Jesus! You know He really doesn't need me but He invites me in to this amazing time!
After club the buses leave and we have about 20 hours to clean up and prepare to do it all over again!
the buses are here...let the fun begin...the cold fun...let the cold fun begin!!!!
2 comments:
North Carolina Misses you Tooooooooooooooo!
About Jesus not "needing" us, but "inviting" us in ....
"We put the walls up but Jesus keeps ‘em standin’
He doesn’t need us, but He lets us put our hands in
So we can see His love is bigger than you and me"
From "Two Weeks in Africa" by Caedmon's Call
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