La Historia

Last week, I had the opportunity to Co-Dean a week of camp at Indian Lake Christian Service Camp in Darlington, MD with Katie Gerber from Mountain Christian Church.  We had 61 4th-6th graders (4 of which were from YCC- Alexis Lashley, Max Hoffman, Jonathon Minneman and Lorayne Minneman)!  Among other things, we had one on one devotion time with God, learned about praying in color, worship, story time about God, games and A LOT of laughter!

La Historia-The Story...We spent the week looking at God's story for us.  The cool thing-the middle of the story is still being written.  The beginning and the ending are written down and the plan is set, but the middle-that's up to you!

Day 1-Creation!  It was great discussing this as we sat in God's creations!  We could hear the wind rustling the trees and the birds chirping.  We could see the beautiful greens in the trees, the blue in the sky and the river.

Day 2-Catastrophe!  Sin entered the world...and we keep sinning!  I don't think the kids will ever forget this lesson as we had little catastrophes set throughout the day for them as a result of continuous sin.  It was so HORRIBLE...no syrup for our french toast, no ketchup for our hamburgers, no salad dressing for our salads, and at canteen...only water!!!!!

Day 3-Community!  God starting rebuilding a relationship with man and he used men like Moses, Abraham, Isaac and Joseph.

Day 4-Christ! God sent His son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.  

Day 5-Completion!  Celebration!  Jesus didn't stay dead...He arose and is preparing a place for us in Heaven!

I had a great week with all the kids and the leaders (despite the HUGE spiders I had to encounter many times:) And I can't wait til next year!

Some of the boys praying in color.

Some of the girls praying in color.

Crafts

Ultimate Sports

Jewelry Making

Dance

One  of the families performing their synchronized swimming routine during Olympics night:)

Finding Gummi worms in Whipped Cream

Worshiping 

Movie Night!

Messy games- finding marbles in oatmeal using toes:)

Moving cereal using water and your face:)

Marshmallow stamps...each team had a different condiment and had to "stamp" other teams using a marshmallow:)

The Izzo family-they were our Mission focus this week.  In a few days, they are moving to Nicaragua to be full time missionaries!

Gabe-one of our teen leaders getting baptized

Gabe getting baptized

Anthony getting baptized

Micah getting baptized

Shelby getting baptized

Jake getting baptized