Kids Camp

Well, I have been back from kids camp for over a week now, and just now have gotten caught up on my sleep. Boy it was refreshing and fun but tiring. The camp had about 400 kids and were divided into 8 teams. Well I got to be a coach of one of those teams. The male councelor I coached with was only 18 but turned out to be okay. We had 33 girls and 11 boys on our team. 12 of those girls were from our church. We dominated in sports which brought us lots of points. We did really good in JBQ (junior bible quiz) which also brought us big points. Kristen won the costume contest for all the girls in the whole camp (only about 12 participated) which i thought was pretty cool and that got us points. Jo-Jo won the Cuban shuffle contest for our team which also got us points. So I said all that to say that OUR TEAM won for the week. I was pretty excited. I couldn't talk very loud for a couple of days from all the screaming, but all worth it. The Christian Education director told me by far I was the loudest coach there. We had to make up a cheer that included the Theme of camp (Transformers), Green (color of team) and Ironhide (transformer our team was) so here goes:

Ironhide is our name

Transforming is our game

Each day we are growing

with God's love overflowing

We are on the best team

Don't you wish you were green!

I didn't make it up, because I am not good at that, i had help (thanks mike and Connie). We didn't win the cheer, but I bet lots of kids "wished they were green" when we won. Anyway all the kids actually participated in the activities. But the most important thing was that all come back with something spiritually. Whether it was a first time salvation, rededication, the Holy spirit or a calling upon their life. All of them said their favorite part of camp was the services at night. That is a huge statement considering they swam everyday, played games everyday, an got to watch me make a fool of myself as a coach (some of the things coaches have to do is crazy, 2nd picture, but i had it easy this year). To see our kids praying for each other was awesome (4th picture). Here are some pictures!!!