Junior 1: Thursday

Happy Thursday! We are having an awesome week with our Junior campers!!

Yesterday we expected the rain to come and change our plans for the day, but amazingly the rain missed us all day, so we got to enjoy our day outside! We did have some storms last night, but we were blessed with safety through the night and awoke to a fresh new morning!

This morning we started our day off the usual way at Flag Pole with stretches and a fun run to get our blood pumping for the day! We then headed into the Dining Hall for a delicious breakfast of waffles, pancakes, and peaches!

After eating, we went back to our cabins to clean up and decorate to today's theme. Today's theme is "Sportz!" When our cabins were all clean, organized, and decorated, we went out for our Bible studies with our cabins.

Today's Bible study was from 1 John chapter 4. We took time to look at details that John talks about in this chapter and discussed how we can experience a relationship with Jesus in light of the passage.

This week the campers all have a booklet with the Bible Study passages in them, and are given crayons and colored pencils to underline, highlight, circle and color code different things their booklets ask them for. This way, they can start to dissect scripture and look deeper into what it has to say. Doing this also has the campers read and re-read the passage multiple times, which helps further understanding. It's interactive and the campers seem to really enjoy doing this type of Bible Study!

After Bible Study, we started our choice activities for the day! Today's choice activities included an interactive hike at Merry Lea, GaGa, Carpet Ball, Nine Square, Crafts, Archery, and Swimming.

When we finished up both of our choice activities we signed up for, it was time for a wonderful lunch! Today's delicious lunch consisted of chicken nuggets, carrots, tater tots, and O'Henry bars for dessert! Our cooks do such an awesome job! It was a very tasty meal.

Following our lunch, it was time to head back to the cabins for some rest time so we could all have enough energy for the rest of the day!

When we were rested and ready to go, we began our rotations for the day. Today's rotations included swimming, getting ready for tomorrow's game of Mêlée, and the slip 'n slide! The campers have been working hard on memorizing their verses for Mêlée, and now their teams are all signed up for the different events that go on during the game. The slip 'n slide is also always a hit. It was very refreshing on a hot day like today! :)



After some really fun rotations, everyone got to enjoy some free time around camp, and then headed in for an awesome dinner of mac & cheese, green beans and corn, corn bread, and jello cake for dessert!

Following dinner, we had our all-camp activity. This evening's all-camp activity was called "Barbarians!" It's essentially a form of 4-way capture the flag, and it was definitely a great game. Our campers played hard!

When "Barbarians" came to a close, we headed to the chapel for some worship and a message from Devin Reed. Tonight's message focused even more on Ephesians chapter 2, and all of the good works God calls us to do for Him.

After a great chapel, we split off to have some discussion with our cabin groups and then went off to bed to rest up for Friday.

It has been such a great week, and we have loved spending time with our awesome campers. We're so excited that they've been loving this week as much as we have (if not, more) and have been learning more about Christ. We still have a lot of fun stuff planned for the rest of the week, and we trust that it will be amazing. We continuously pray that God would move within each camper and that seeds would be planted and would continue to grow as they leave this place on Saturday.

Here's to the rest of the week!