After our morning session, we had our group games. This one was a team building exercise to do a group jump rope. We lined 35 people up and after a lot of failures, we got 9 jumps in a row. Our group is now known as nueve.
Our whole group went canoeing and kayaking today. One of the middle school guys, Joel, and I were going along just fine with Zach T-boned us with his Kayak and threw us both in the water. The water felt great, so we floated for a while until we found a place to get back in the canoe. After that, it was on. We spent the rest of the time catching up to everyone else and doing our best to dump them. We got in last, but it didn't matter, since two of our girls had missed the take-in point and gone waaay down. We finally caught up with them and headed back for our Break-Out sessions.
I've been alternating back and forth between sitting in the high school sessions with Noel and the Junior High Sessions with Jason. Noel's session tonight talked about counting the cost of discipleship followed by an amazing song by Chad, one of the guys in the band.
After that, our whole church went bowling. We had a pose for each frame in the set - everything from laying down and pushing the ball, to spinning around five times and chucking it down the alley. Spinning five times makes you a lot dizzier than you might think.
I'm wiped out right now. My personality is pretty high energy, and I can only keep it up for so long. I'm doing alright physically, but emotionally I'm pretty spent. 5 or 6 hours of sleep at night doesn't help.
The kids are at the point in camp where they've started connecting the dots, and started really thinking about what connecting with God looks like for them and how they take it beyond just thinking big thoughts. We continue to encourage them to move towards action and what it looks like beyond the pie-in-the-sky fun of camp, and into real-life. The irony is that it's at this point the kids need us to be 100% present, and as leaders, we've started to get to the point where we're pretty spent. Please pray for the leaders and for the kids.
Pizza just came. I'm hungry. I've now got a room full of guys.
You can see the rest of the day's pictures here.
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