Wednesday Junior High 2: Fingerprints

Despite a few bits of rain it was a beautiful day. As always it started out with flag raising and breakfast. After breakfast the campers did a very good job cleaning their cabins and then headed off to chapel. Chapel was high energy as morning chapel always it. The songs, bible verse, and missionary speakers got the kids excited for what the day had in store and to have open ears, eyes and hearts to see God. The kids dove into their personal devotions and then went off to cabin time, which was the final activity of the morning. Lunch was at the playground today. The pirate life guards led let in because it was beach bash day. The ever popular hamburgers filled the campers bellies and then they went to their cabins for a little bit of k-bar time. Then beach bash. After an intense beach bash introduction where the fair maiden 'Annalisa Port' was forced to walk the plank by the gator, the camp was moved to the gym because of lightning and thunder. So instead of the typical beach bash, we played some pirate pinguard in the gym, the pirate lifeguards acted as the pins. Free time was next on the scedule. It didn't rain for free time, which was nice for the campers. The wind did pick up a good bit however, but that didn't slow anybody down. Dinner was lasanga, which is evidently a popular meal, because everybody enjoyed it. Following dinner the campers had the first chance to begin planning their skits for the skit show on friday. The creative things that the campers came up with were quite impressive. Fugitive was the evening game, with quite an array of people the campers had to catch. Characters ranging from rocks and bear hunters, to wreslers and the white witch from narnia. Once the game ended it was time for chapel; U-Turn night. The speaker presented the salvation of Jesus Christ not in words but in action. He acted out a song that spoke of the movement from sacrificing lambs as Jews used to do, to the ultimate sacrifice of the Lamb, which was Jesus. Campers were moved by this as they realized that the ultimate sacrifice was for them, a free gift of hope, joy, love, and freedom from what they once where. The day was full of God's fingerprints, from the lightning and thunder, to the uplifing interactions the campers had with eachother; from the wind to the sunshine, from the incredible sunset to the joy and excitement that the campers had; and in the way that God touched the hearts of campers at chapel, and changed their lives.