Friday, June 27, 2008

Thunder

8:05 Raise Flag/Breakfast
9:00 All Camp/Cabin Clean Up
10:00 Chapel
11:15 Throw Staff in the lake
11:30 Cabin Check Out
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Busses Depart

The campers work up today and headed off to breakfast which entalied some yummy breakfast sandwitches, as well as of course cereal and yogurt. During breakfast it started pouring buckets, so we were a little concerned that they day would end in the rain, but God had other things in mind, he cleared the sky right up as breakfast was ending and the campers got to complete their day in the sun. Most of the morning was cleaning up cabins and preparing to head home, the main event was chapel. At chapel the skits were finished up, and the five sidekicks headed out on their new mission from Ruach. The speaker gave his final speach, and then the campers headed down to the lake to throw a whole lot of staff members in. Once the campers were checked out of their cabins it was the last day pizza lunch and then they loaded on to the busses to head home to their families, and share all the wonderful times they had with their families.

Mud

Thursday Scedule
8:05 Raise Flag/ Breakfast
9:00 Cabin Clean uP
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Personal Devotions
11:00 Skills
12:15 Lunch
1:00 KBAR
2:00 Cabin Time
3:00 Big Game
4:00 Free Time
6:00 DInner
6:30 CHAOS
7:00 Connect
7:45 Staff Skit Show
8:30 Chapel
9:30 Bon Fire
10:00 Cabin Devos
10:30 Lights Out

It was a great last full day for trailblazer 2. The campers woke up and headed off to breakfast to nourish themselves for the day, and they needed it, it was a day that required much energy. From breakfast they headed to cabin clean up, the final one, where some cabins got pretty creative so that they could win some points on the point board. Then we went to chapel where we found out that the skit character Matt had quite a unique power...you'll have to ask your camper to find out what it is though, we don't want to ruin the surprise too much. From chapel they had a little bit of personal devo time and then went to their skills class. Lunch was delicious deli sandwitches, and the campers headed off to rest up for the afternoon in the sun! The first thing was cabin time, where the girls cabins participated in activities around camp, and the boys cabin participated in their first, and very successful, MAN DAY for cabin time. The big game was tube mania and the campers got nice and muddy, which aided in cooling them off from the heat, but they enjoyed it greatly, and afterwards, there was an all camp swim in the lake to rinse off. The rest of the day was free time,a nd everywhere was busy with kids taking advantage of their last day of camp! Dinner was followed by CHAOS with egg man, and then there was a staff skit show. All of the staff participated in a funny, and maybe a little bit gross skit, which all of the campers enjoyed! It's always fun for them to see their Counselors/Cabin Pals up on stage having some fun. Straight from the skit show they went to the final chapel of the week. The speaker talked about having 'power under people' (or encouragement) versus power over (control) and how that positively impacts the totality of our lives. Then there was the end of the week bonfire and the campers got their chance to share with others what they learned through the week and how they plan on continuing in their new knoweldge when they go home. Afterwards it was off to bed for the final night of TB2.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Walkie Talkie

8:05 Raise Flag/breakfast
9:00 Cabin Clean Up
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Cabin Devotions
11:00 Cabin Time
12:15 Lunch
1:00 KBAR
2:00 Skills Time
3:00 Beach Bash
4:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
6:30 CHAOS
7:00 Connect
7:30 Chapel
8:45 Big Game
9:45 Drama
10:15 Cabin Devotions
10:45 Lights Out

The day started out with a great breakfast and the campers continued on in their morning with cabin clean up, skits, where the giant woodpecker is seen ravaging the city of Theopolis, and the skit characters realize that they need to go and save the city. Then Personal Devotions, and Cabin time. Lunch was at the beach that day and the campers enjoyed some good old grilled hamburgers. Then the afternoon held skill tie number 2, and the beach bash, which was a blast for the campers on a hot sunny day like it was today. Free time was the rest of the afternoon, and then dinner. During CHAOS the campers played Deal or no Deal, and one of the campers made a deal...they won a luggage lug. After dinner was chapel, and then a big game, Go for the Gusto. The campers finished playing that and then went to the Dinning hall to watch the Drama about the Revolutionary Love of God.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Play Hard

Scedule

8:05 Raise Flag/Breakfast
9:00 Cabin Clean Up
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Personal Devotions
11:00 Skills Time
12:15 Lunch
1:00 KBAR
2:00 Cabin Time
3:00 Big Game
4:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
6:30 CHAOS
7:00 Connect
7:45 Chapel
9:00 Cabin Devotions
10:15 Lights Out

And so TB2 continues with a full fun day. Chapel was quite entertaining, and yet rather suspenseful as the skit characters split off into two groups, one group that wanted to help save Theopolis and one group that wanted to control Theopolis. The last main event of the morning was Skills time numero uno. The campers were all really excited to be able to participate in their different skills such as Archery, four square, diving, etc. Lunch prepared them for an eventful afternoon, beginning with cabin time, which we were blessed with a beautiful day so all of the cabins participated in an outside activity wheather at the beach or ballfield, or anywhere else around camp, and then the afternoon game was SAFARI! Oh yes, the campers were excited to go and catch their counselors/cabin pals who were all acting as different animals, such as monkeys, mermaids, snakes, etc as they searched for the prize. They played hard, and were ready to refresh themselves in the hose to get their heads unshrunken after getting tagged by the 'head hunters'. The rest of the afternoon was free time, followed by dinner and then CHAOS where the campers enjoyed watching some good old EGG MAN. Chapel was the main event after dinner as it was U-TURN Night. The campers were given the opportunity to stay back with their counselors to talk about whatever they needed to in faith related matters. After that was lights out, so the campers were able to get a good night's rest for tomorrow's activities.
Scedule

8:05 raise flag/breakfast

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Beautiful

8:05 Raise Flag/Breakfast
9:00 Cabin Clean Up
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Personal Devotions
11:00 Orientation Rotation Part 2
12:15 Lunch
1:00 KBAR
2:00 Cabin Time
3:00 Big Game
4:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
6:30 CHAOS
7:00 Connect
7:45 Chapel
8:45 Night Game
9:30 Cabin Devos
10:15 Lights Out

It was a beautifuly first day for the TB2 campers! They woke up with a lovely sunrise, and they headed off to get some breakfast. Cleaning cabins led into Chapel where they enjjoyed some singing, a missions moment, where a staff memeber comes and shares a little bit about how GOd has worked through mission trips that they have been on, and some sweet skits...where Belching Bertha and Duct Tape Deon split off from the rest of the group. The rest of the morning the Boys did their rotations of Swim Test, Hay Ride and Game in the ballfield, and the girls went to the low ropes to have some bonding time. (Sunday evening the girls did the rotation and the boys did the Low Ropes) Lunch was tacos and then the campers went back to their cabins for KBAR (Kick Back and Relax) to get physically prepared for the fun fileed afternoon ahead. There was the first cabin time, and each cabin got to go to a different activity and maybe learn some new thigns, and also just to get to hang out with eachother at different cool places at camp. The big game was WHIP n' STRIP, which was very awesome, and the campers played so hard! The rest of the afternoon was free time, and everything was open for the campers to enjoy! CHAOS (or Mail Call) was after dinner, and then there was a little bit of down time called connect between dinner and chapel. At chapel there was more singing and verse learning as well as a testimony from a staff member. Then the speaker told us about how our choices effect who we are. We can choose to be loving, kind, caring, gentle etc, or we can choose not to be...but our choices effect how we act and how others around us feel. We want to be energy giving, not energy sucking. The final event of the day was the night game, which was fugitive, and all the campers enjoyed participating in finding crazy escaped characters and bringing them back to jail. Then it was back to the cabins for cabin devotions, and lights out.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Sunscreen

Scedule

8:05 Raise Flag/Let In
9:00 All Camp Clean Up
10:00 Chapel
11:00 Throw Staff in the Lake
11:15 Cabin Check Out
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Busses Depart

The campers work up to a good breakfast of waffles and cereal. The cabins all cleaned up a section of camp, and then went back to their cabins to pack up. Chapel was the main activity of the day and during chapel was worship, skit wrap up, and The final verse of the day, and closing with a send off from the speaker. After many staff were thrown in the lake the campers got checked out and headed off to their pizza lunch. Then after saying goodbyes they were off and on their way home to share their awesome week of camp with the people surrounding them.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Salis

Scedule

8:05 Flag Raising/Breakfast
9:00 Cabin clean Up
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Personal devos
11:15 skill Time
12:15 Lunch
1:15 KBAR
2:00 Pack Attack!
3:00 Big Game
4:00 Free time
6:00 Dinner
6:45 CHAOS
7:30 Cabin Time
9:00 Chapel
10:00 Bon Fire
10:30 Cabin Devos
11:15 Lights Out

It was a phenominal final full day here at covenant pines. God blessed us with incredible weather for the day. It was warm and sunny, with a light breeze to keep us cool. The morning started out well with tasty breakfast sandwitches. The morning went on as usual, and then they had their final skill time of the week. The weather was perfect for every skill time activity, and so the campers had a great time doing that. Lunch and KBAR gave the campers energy and rest to prepare for the PACK ATTACK! Each of the six packs competed against eachother in a relay race of sorts where each camper was able to use their strength to compete as a team, through events such as boating, swimming, bike riding, running, drinking slushies, etc. It was a great way to celebrate the time that each pack had spent getting to know eachother. The big game today was the highly anticipated Guerilla Warfare. A favorite of everybody. The final free time was sweet as all the campers got to do whatever they wanted, they could discover something new or they could go back to their favorite place and get one last chance to enjoy it. After dinner there was the last cabin time, an extra long one so that all the cabins could just really celebrate and be excited about the time that they spent together this past week and the relationships that were formed. Then it was chapel and to close out the night with the bonfire, as a way to look back on the week and the ways in which the Holy Spirit made his way through the camp this week. Halleluja.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Reminder

Scedule

8:05 Raise Flag/Let In/Breakfast
9:00 Cabin Clean Up
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Personal Devos
11:00 Pack Play
12:15 Lunch
1:15 KBAR
2:00 Beach Bash
3:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
6:45 CHAOS
7:15 Connect
8:00 Chapel
9:15 Night Game
10:00 Drama
10:30 Cabin Devos
11:15 Lights Out

It was quite a great day for the campers to do something a little bit different than every day scedule at camp. The morning started out kind of drizzly, so instead of outside let in we had a special Finding Nemo Let in at breakfast. During Chapel the sky cleared right up and with no clouds in sight the campers participated in their last Pack Play time. Along with the activity of camp that they were at, they had to decide who was doing what in the Pack Challange that will take place tomorrow evening. Lunch was at the beach today with let in being led by the Aqua 5 (the lifeguards) and then KBAR was followed by the beach bash during which the campers got to play some awesome water games, as well as paint a super hero logo on their counselor. The rest of the afternoon the campers had the opportunity to spend in free time. With an hour longer of free time they had more independance in choosing what they were going to do with their day. Dinner was noodles followed by another deal or no deal CHAOS where a lucky camper won the best option up on the board. Chapel was awesome, as usual, the campers are really staring to know the memory verses for the week! The night game, Go for the Gusto, was a new one to camp, and of course, involved a sock...as most of the camp games do! The final activity of the evening was the Drama, speaking to the kids about the revolutionary Love of God, and reminding them that no matter who they are or what they've been through God will always have incredible amounts of Love towards them, which is always a great reminder to have.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Saturn

Scedule

8:05 Raise the Flag/Breakfast
9:00 Cabin Clean Up
9:30 Chapel
10:30 Personal Devos
11:00 Skill Time
12:15 Lunch
1:15 KBAR
2:00 Pack Play
3:00 Big Game
4:00 Free Time
6:00 Dinner
6:45 CHAOS
7:15 Connect
8:00 Evening Game
9:00 Chapel
10:15 Back to Cabins/Devos
11:00 Lights Out

It certianly was a full day of camp! It was the most beautiful day yet this summer, and we at CPBC enjoyed it to the fullest. Breakfast was tasty cinnamon rolls and eggs, and then the morning flew by quickly untill Skills time, the first one of the week. The campers enjoyed learning how to do new things some things specific to a camp setting, and some skills that they can take home with them and practice outside of camp. Regardless, they all have stories to tell about their new skills. Lunch followed by KBAR was a good preparation for the afternoon, which began with pack play. Again, this is where three cabins spend time hanging out together during the week getting to know eachother. Then the game today was SOCK-O. The puropse...to take another person's sock off their foot, for how simple the game is, the campers LOVE it! The rest of the afternoon was free time, and most everybody was outside enjoying the incredible weather! Dinner was highly anticipated because of all the energy that was used during the afternoon and then during CHAOS a few rounds of Deal or No Deal CPBC style were played. Since it was "U-turn" night the game came before chapel and the campers played "Find the Fire" Then they headed up to chapel, followed by some awesome worship and a staff testimony the speaker told us about Peter and how he denied Jesus three times before the rooster crowed, and then Jesus asked him three times if Peter loved him...the point being, there are times when we say we love Jesus, but maybe we aren't letting him truly have control of our lives and we aren't letting God make the most of the love we have for him, but overall, we must follow him, and continue trusting him to guide us right as we surrender to his will.