Sunday, October 18, 2009

Camp

Breakthru runs these events called Encounter Camps, when people stay in the building next to us, for the weekend, and have praise and worship, and teaching sessions etc. This past weekend was Kids Kamp (yes that is the correct spelling), with what was supposed to be 30 kids, but ballooned to a total of 65 kids running around the church property.

I personally enjoyed the camp and found it a spiritually uplifting experience as a whole for both the campers and myself.

Interesting points of the weekend:
-Worship times-one of the coolest things I've ever experienced- 70 kids jumping around, praising God, defintiely a powerful experience.
-The Session about the Importance of the Cross- They showed 70 kids aged 10-14 years the crucifixion scene from The Passion of The Christ, which while it definitely helped the kids understand what Jesus Went through, probably traumatized at least a few of them. As well, there was a lot of focus on the Death of Jesus, without much focus on Jesus' Resurrection. If Jesus hadn't been resurrected, then his death would have been meaningless.
-One night, we had an alter call, then asked everyone who wanted to be closer to God could come up to the front, and we would pray for them, while I was praying that the one boy would be guided by the Holy Spirit, he fell over slain, It was amazing to be a part of what God was doing in his life.
-Kyle put the container of juice on one of the food tables (the one with all of the dishes, but none of the food), we didn't have any dishes after that
-I decided to bring out my harmonicas and the kids just couldn't get enough of them. I collected all of them after one of the breaks, but thought I was missing one. When kyle went to the pool after camp was over, he met one of the Kids, and the kid gave him back my harmonica.



And now for a new Feature: Gabby Grammer Where I'll share something that gabby has said-

today Gabby was talking about going to go to the Game Park tomorrow, and the animals that she'd see there, the animal she is most excited to see- Rhinosaurs

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