Junior High 1: Wednesday

Our week of camp has been fabulous with our wonderful Junior High campers!

This morning we woke up to some peaceful rain, refreshing a new day. Though it was peaceful, we were glad it didn't last too long so we could go outside and enjoy the outdoors.

For starters, we kicked the day off with flagpole. We warmed up with stretches, some Bear Lake Camp Jacks, and a short fun run to breakfast.

After breakfast we headed back to our cabins for cabin clean-up! During this time we try to get our cabins as tidy as we can, as well as decorate to a specified theme. The cleanest and most creative cabin gets the honor of the flaming plunger, as well as entering into lunch first.

Today's cabin clean-up theme was "Café Bistro."


When our cabins were clean and decorated, we went set out for our Bible studies. Today's Bible study centered around 1 John chapter 3. We went through the passage together, and pulled out different things that John talks about. This week during our Bible studies, we are focusing on picking out things that John says we "know," some specific ways of living with Christ that are described in the chapter, how we see these signs of life in ourselves and more. We have been having discussions with our cabinmates and have the chance to ask a lot of questions.

After Bible study, we began our choice activities for the day. Today's choice activities included crafts, dodgeball, nine square, disc golf, Dawn's Dance Aerobics, time in the game room, basketball and more!

Following our choice activities, we gathered in the Dining Hall for another yummy lunch of sub sandwiches, watermelon, pasta salad and cupcakes for desert! It sure hit the spot after playing around in the heat of the sun.

When we were all done eating, we went back to our cabins for some rest time to recharge for the rest of the day.

After some relaxing rest time, we started our rotations for the day. To start, one team played shaving cream wiffle ball, another team played Ultimate Sponge, and then the two teams switched. Meanwhile the other two teams cooled off swimming at the lake. After going through our first rotation and taking a break with a snack from the Snack Shack, we rotated spots so each team could enjoy each activity.

The rotations provided a lot of fun and laughter today! They were the perfect activities to cool off, stay outside, and have fun! What else could you really ask for? :)

Following rotations, the camp was open for free time. Campers can play GaGa, nine square, swing, play carpetball, finish their crafts from earlier, and more.

After some fun free time, we all headed to the Dining Hall for yet another delicious dinner of ham, cheesy potatoes, bread, corn, peaches and banana pudding for dessert!

After our wonderful dinner prepared by our awesome kitchen team, we got ready for our all camp activity. Today's all-camp activity was Goldrush!

When we finished playing our all-camp activity, we took a break for Snack Shack and then headed to the chapel for some worship and another great message from Josh Rockey. Tonight's chapel was about salvation.

When we wrapped up chapel, we went outside with our cabin groups to reflect on the day we shared together, and to discuss salvation further.


After a our cabin discussions, we headed back to the cabins to go to sleep!


It has been a great week so far, and we sure aren't done yet! We have a lot more fun planned for the rest of the week, and we're so excited to share it all with our awesome campers! We're continuing to pray that the Lord would be working in the hearts of our campers, and that they would seek to know God even more, becoming Alive with Him in the process!