Jr. Week

Our third week was Jr. Week and I had the joy and opportunity to counsel a cabin of ten girls with Angela! We really enjoyed working together and were so grateful for such a neat experience! Our cabin was on the NAVY team-Captain Jones! The schedules shifted majorly and the program was very different and geared more toward the younger ages we would be working with the last two weeks of camp.  Daniel worked as a stretcher again, mowing grass, cleaning bathrooms and helping out all over. He also turned 18 that Monday and we sang to him more than once during the week!

Doing crafts....

The girls worked hard to pick this bouquet for Angela-she was a wonderful counselor and we all loved her!

A crazy hair challenge...;)

One of our games was a picture scavenger hunt....

Making a pyramid for the scavenger hunt game....

A picture with the Nurse

All of us holding Angela-our girls from right to left: Memphis, Kalina, Sarah, Jade, Sequoia (behind me), Abi, Zoe, Sydney, Lydia, Serenna...

We had the carnival again this year! On the last day of the week the carnival runs for a few hours and everyone gets to come, stop work and enjoy it, staff and campers! Here Daniel Shamblin and I were in the sponge throw! The campers loved this game!!

Daniel had his table again this year which the campers really enjoyed!

Getting an apple....

More opportunity to throw sponges at some faces while Angela snacks on her apple...

Peter and Missy trying out the sumo wrestling!;) It's because of their hard work and planning that the fun carnival is possible!

Skylar, one of our guy campers trying out the mine jump...

 Daniel Shamblin doing the midget skit....

 Angela's pet sitting business was a very loved skit in which the owner tells her not to pet or touch the dog. When she accidentally does, the dog chases her as she screams her head off and at the end the dog catches up and says, "Tag! You're it!"

 Mr. Craven and Daniel Shamblin doing the mechanical cowboy skit-they both did a great job!!

 Giving Daniel his birthday cake during the busy schedule of camp. (The guy beside him is a fellow stretcher from last summer named Johnny and their stretcher counselor Jonathan. )

Nicole and Jonathan testing the bake-off results....this cabin put a bit too much baking powder but it beat the other cabins' which had three huge spoonfuls of salt in it mistaken for sugar!

Angela and I hiding during a game of hide-n-seek in the bear box which is the "trash bin" here, waiting for our campers to find us!

   One of the biggest things the Lord used Angela to encourage me in was taking time each day to be alone with the Him, talk to Him and read His Word. This can be so easy to skip over, it seems, when you're busy "ministering and serving the Lord" and yet how vital it really is. How can we be serving someone if we have no time for them? How can we really know what He wants, expects and desires for our lives if we are too busy for Him? You will never be able to know the great treasures He has in store for you if you never look to Him to know Him better!

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.
                                                                                              Psalm 34:8-10

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
                    Hebrews 4:12