This past week, the girls had the opportunity to go to church camp. Annah has gone to our church's camp for the past 2 years (
2010,
2009), and had such a wonderful time, the girls have been looking forward to it all year!
Each of the girls had a friend go along to camp. Sylvia and Ella were really excited to share their first camp experience!
There was a mistake made somewhere in the registration process though, and when we checked them in they were not in the same room/group as they were supposed to be. God worked it all out, and they were able to be in the same group after all, thankfully.
When we left, they were on their way to the first chapel service and wondering when they were going to get to swim...
Annah's friend Ashley was able to go to camp with her again this year too!
The two of them were in a group with Kim and Celia as their counselors and 4 other girls from our church. They did also have 2 other girls who were from another church in their room.
It was really nice of Kim to text me a few pictures of their fun during the week, and Celia posted a lot for us after camp.
Here's Annah's group playing Rubber Chicken Rumble on their first night at camp.
Apparently, it was kind of like volleyball with rubber animals instead of a ball? Sounds funny and fun anyway!
Ash and Annah bought stuffed animals at the "snack shack."
The girls got to experience tetherball! Napoleon Dynamite would be proud.
The second night of camp was Crazy Hair Night! The girls in Annah's group put cups in their hair to make it stand straight up!
Annah also had her little stuffed fox attached to her hair!
This picture cracks me up! They look like coneheads from the back!
This was some kind of slippery water hockey game. There were dozens of players slipping and sliding on the plastic, which was covered with water and dish soap, and using pool noodles to hit the beach ball "puck." Looks like hilarious fun!
Ropes and obstacle course...
Everyone has their friends sign their camp shirts with permanent markers on the last day of camp.
In the past, camp has always been held at the Nazarene campground in Manville, which closed last year. This year, camp was at
Lake Williamson Christian Conference Center. The grounds were beautiful and facilities very nice! This is the view the girls saw when they walked out the building where they stayed all week.
This is the building where they ate...
Part of the dorm where the girls stayed...
Marc Hamman of Arrow Ministries, Inc. was the evangelist for camp. We arrived in time to see a little bit of the last chapel service, and he was quite energetic! He reminded me of a Christian version Dana Carvey. The kids really enjoyed him.
He had a silly character called Egmont who was called by God to step up and be bold for Him!
The theme for the week...
We happened to sit close to Sylvia and Ella's group during worship and were glad to see them happily enjoying the service...
...and worshipping through the fun songs...
...Then we spotted Annah and Ashley's group and saw them "driving the bus..."
Sylvie and Ella and their junior counselor Sam
Our 4 campers, happy and tired after a great week at camp...
So grateful for their opportunity to go and have fun and draw near to Jesus!
For you were once in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8
