One camp down, Two to go!

Well we had an awesome week at Girls Camp! It's been an interesting summer because while we have a vague idea of what we'll be doing at each location, we don't have very many details. And Girls Camp was no exception. We knew that we'd be at Camp Touchet (a camp owned by the churches of the Columbia Basin Baptist Association) and that there'd be about 65 girls there... but that was about it. We're staying in the Tri Cities between camps on the weekends and our host, Lindsay, was the camp cook. Her mother Bobbie was the camp director so it made it easier by being right in the middle of all the important people.

We arrived at Camp Touchet Sunday night. It's a beautiful place, right near a ski resort, but about ten minutes from camp everyone loses cell phone service. My phone gets so lost it stops keeping time. But it's refreshing in a way to be completely disconnected from everything except serving God where we are. We got our assignments upon arrival. I was a 6th grade counselor while Katherine and Joelle had 4th grade. Lara was put on Recreation. We all thought we would be counselors so it was a little surprising when Lara wasn't. We had all bought decorations for our rooms and little trinkets to give our girls throughout the week, but it turned out that Lara fit her job much better doing recreation and tech jobs. She came and slept with me and my 6th graders a couple of nights and decided she definitely got the best end of the deal :)

I loved working with the girls. They were really fun and not clique-ish at all, which was my main fear. I was "in charge" of three girls- Ashlynn, Carolyn and Annika. Although a lot of the girls didn't know each other when they got to camp, they all left as friends. All three of my girls grew up in church and have fathers that are deacons so I didn't expect any of them to accept Christ for the first time at this camp. They had all done that years ago. But I know that they all learned a lot from our Bible study time and did a great job of welcoming the 3rd grade girls and all the first timers.

Katherine and I also helped with the drama rotation. I directed the 6th grade skit and she directed the 4th grade skit and all of the grades and counselors performed on Thursday night. From the start I knew that my group was going to be awesome. I found a skit online and tailored it to my age group complete with High School Musical and Hannah Montana. They had their lines memorized by the second rehearsal and kept adding new and creative twists to it. The point of the skit was that we can't fit God into our lives- or any kind of plot already written because God is much bigger and we need to fit into HIS plan. It went over REALLY well on Thursday night and hopefully I can post the video sometime soon!

We had at least three girls accept Christ for the first time so praise Jesus! Now we're all getting ready for youth camp, also at Camp Touchet, which will have about 200 students. Whew so we're resting up for a fun, crazy, chaotic week. Please be praying for us to have energy and be joyful and just be completely surrendered to what God has planned for the rest of the summer!

Thank you so much for your prayers!