Wednesday Junior High 3: Love

Awake and refreshed from the good night's sleep the campers headed to the flag pole for the pledge of alligance and flag raising. Breakfast burriots was served, and then the campers headed off to clean up their slighlty disorganized cabins. From there they headed to morning chapel to catch up with the skit caracters, and then spent some time alone with God in personal devotions. Cabin time was the final activity of the morning. The campers had a blast participating in different activities around camp with their cabins. Lunch was served at the beach with the life guard pirates running let in. This week there was a Captain, a deck hand, a crocidle, and a two headed lady aboard the life guard pirate ship. After eating hamburgers, chips and carrots the campers headed back to their cabins for K-Bar. At 2:00 the bell rang and the campers excitedly headed to the beach for the beach bash. After the introduction the camp was split in two and half went to the ball field to play beach bash style dodgeball, and the other half stayed at the beach and participated in activities such as tug o war in the water. After the beach bash all of the campers had been cooled down and they got to head out to whatever free time activity they wanted. When free time had ended the campers headed to the dinning hall where we had indoors let in so that the campers and staff wouldn't have to sit out in the hot sun. During mail call we had Egg Man come and visit again, and then the cabins had their first skit prep time. The campers got together and began to come up with ideas for the skit that they are going to perform for the camp at the end of the week. Fugitive was the evening game, which was just wonderful. The campers caught some very interesting characters this time, including Tinker Bell, an infomercial, and abandoned prom dates. Chapel was the final activity of the evening. Worship was hot again, but even more so, very powerful as the kids praised God with everything inside of them. After the verses and the staff testimony the speaker came up. He spoke of love and the unconditional love that God continually showers upon us. He also told us of the fact that God cannot force us to love him, which in itself can be seen as an act of love. The speaker ended with the fact that there is nothing we could do to make God love us any less, and that is why he shed his blood to save us. Then, he offered the opportunity for people to commit their lives to Christ, or to recommit. The chapel was silent, and the Holy Spirit moved around the room and touched hearts and changed lives.