Camp One, Day Four.

Thursday morning's chapel program consisted of a day of service as a part of the "Acts/Martha" piece of our chapel study. The kids were able to pick from one of four service locations - they could go to St. Mary's Convent to work in the lavender field for Thistle Farms and help tend their vegetable garden, they could go to Sherwood (a mining community down the mountain) to help spruce up their old elementary school that they've turned into a community center, they could go across the street to the nursing home to sing songs and play bingo, or they could stay on campus and cut shirts for Thistle Farms to use for their paper ministry.

The St. Mary's Convent group first started with a tour of the gardens and grounds. A volunteer from Sewanee took the campers around:

A group of girls went with Sister Mary Martha to make jam in the convent kitchen:

A group weeded the recently planted lavender field. St. Mary's planted the lavender to grow to use the essential oils in the bath and body products for Thistle Farms, a Nashville ministry.

Another group weeded in the organic vegetable garden:

And yet another group weeded in the flower beds for the nuns:

A group on campus cut t-shirts, which Thistle Farms will use to make paper products.

The group that went down to Sherwood worked hard tending the grounds of the community center:

Later Thursday we had skit night and coffee house. Each cabin did a skit:

Then we had coffee house, a talent show that has a running counselor skit throughout:

What a talented group of campers and counselors! Bravo.

On to Friday - the last day of camp one!!