Camp - Day 2 - July 19

Our second day of the high school English camp began similarly to the first day. We started with leaving at 7:30 in the morning and being blessed with an awesome devo from Arne. We then assembled a new game for me at least known as River-Bank. I have to admit that while I was calling the game I felt like a DJ with all of the back and forth with the words. We proceeded with breaking up into our individual classes. The theme for the day was "household." This consisted of covering material from the garden to the bathroom. It was encouraging in my class because I began to see specific teens start to open up more on ONLY THE SECOND DAY!!!!!

After a delicious snack of peach yogurt, we resumed classes and then proceeded to chapel led by a former Hungarian wrestler. He was awesome. PERIOD. He shared his testimony and how as humans we think there are many ways to God, but there is really only one true way, which is Jesus Christ. After a delectable lunch of liver ball soup and meatballs with rice, we played an insurmountable amount of card games from Apples to Apples to Egyptian Ratslap. After approximately an hour of card and table games, we moseyed on out to the park for some outdoor games. There we played the most competitive game of kickball I have ever seen filled with trash talking, rising emotions, and controversial calls. Sounds a lot like politics if you ask me...

Following the suddenly fierce game of kickball, we moved inside where it was cooler. There we played my personal camp favorite, The Dancing Game which consists of everyone standing in a circle, and dancing while someone tries to guess who started the rhythm. I, being big on dancing, eat this game up like it was a Chipotle Burrito! We played until the campers left.
At about 5:00 we had a brief debrief and began planning our lesson for tomorrows theme, community. After planning we gathered together and went back to Hotel Ventura. Then we headed to a mall where the girls and Brad had vegetarian gourmet food, while the guys had Burger King and KFC (how authentic!). We sauntered around the mall floors for about three hours waiting for the ladies to receive their crepes. We then returned to our lovely hotel where we played a long game of Apples to Apples and had what Victoria calls, "team bonding time." We then departed so people could shower, read, and so that I could write this blog. That is where we are now.

This was a very long overview of the day, but I haven't even begun to talk about what God is doing!!! God has blessed us with so much energy and he has prepared the hearts of the campers. It has only been two days and I have had outstanding conversations with all the campers getting to know each of them. I am so glad the Lord blessed me with the opportunity to be a part of this missions team. Everything I was hoping it was going to be has already been fulfilled plus way more. This has been awesome and I can't wait to see what God brings to us for the rest of the trip!


~ Kyle