Camp Camp Camp!!!

Hey guys, guess what this week was! That's right it was SUMMER CAMP! Woop-de-woop! I love camp, and its such a blessing to be able to go up, and make friends, but more importantly hang out with and grow closer to God. So let me just give you an overview of what we did each day because really that's not even the best part.

Sunday: We got to camp, ate dinner, hung out, went to chapel, cabin time ext.

Monday: Monday we split into our groups and had some team competitions which were a lot of fun.

Tuesday: Tuesday was pond day! We all went down to lower pond did some more team games, and had a ton of fun with that.

Wednesday: Wednesday was water day! It was also a fun time. We got to play with water balloons, play in the pool, just fun activities like that.

Thursday: Thursday was one of my favorite days. Thursday was MUD DAY!!! We all walked down to the mud pit and played volley ball, tug of war, and other games like that.

Now I'm going to get to the more important things like what I learned and the chapel time, things like that.

So every morning after breakfast we got up and did morning worship at the fire circle and after that we did a thing called Solo Time where we would split off and be by ourselves, read verses, reflect, pray, all that amazing stuff. Then in the evening we would go to chapel, do our worship, have a sermon, and go off to cabin time to reflect with your cabin mates about what we learned.

The theme for camp this summer was "Corner Stone." Our speaker Jay (Who I've heard speak for 2 years, and whos band played this winter and summer) talked about how God needs to be our corner stone, he talked about how if God wasn't our corner stone, the foundation on which we build our lives, then things will come crashing down. God needs to be the center of our life if he is going to be the corner stone.

We also talked about how each persons relationship with Christ is extremely and beautifully unique, but we also talked about how community is so needed. We are not meant to be alone. "Thinking the only team you're on is your own, that's a LIE." -Jay Kim. We learned that yes, our lives and relationships with God are so amazingly unique but that when all our uniqueness comes together we can become something awe inspiring.

Finally we talked about if Christ really is our corner stone we should be able to jump off this "ledge" to take these leaps that God is calling us to because with him we can do it, and even if we have fear about it, that fear will turn into an amazing exhilaration.

We also did a special thing called "Extinct." It was about things that we should be extinct in the world but are not (IE: Human Trafficking, hate, things like that). I and a few others went to the one on hate, and most of the others went to the one on human trafficking. This experience touched us so much more that I expected. In the seminar on hate we heard one of our main camp leaders stories about his friend who he always picked on. The one on human trafficking REALLY got to a lot of my friends and touched them so deeply. All of this got to all of us.

After the seminar my church went to this spot to look at the stars and reflect on this. Man did things get amazingly emotional. I say amazingly because what happened that Wednesday night was something that has never really happened with all of us before. We opened up to each other fully and completely. We had community and fellowship, and God worked through us in so many amazing ways that night.

Overall the week was not only amazingly fun but it was such a growing experience. We not only grew closer as a group but closer to God both individually and as a group. My hope is that all of us accept Jason's Challenge that now that we are back home we will NOT go back to our old ways but instead continue to hold each other accountable and grow closer and closer to God. I'm ready to C-O-M-Commit to not only each other but to God.