Camp 3: Thursday!

Today was wonderful as it was all about building our community! 
This morning we had a great time in chapel as we sang, did a morning devotion and then got to see a hilarious skit from the counselors. The skit taught us about a concept where each person has an invisible bucket on their head that measures how they are feeling. We learned that when you are sad or lonely your bucket gets emptied, but when someone compliments or you help someone else, your bucket gets filled! We decorated our own buckets- to be used later. Parents you should be excited about this one! Finally after family groups, Andie talked to us about how she found her calling in life to be filling others buckets and how you can do something simple, but each simple thing makes a difference. 

At lunch we had chicken sandwiches which filled us up to go right to sleep during siesta. When we all woke up it was time to go to Fiery Gizzard to help remove privet-an invasive species that is killing the native plants and pull vines. Don't worry parents, we were careful about poison ivy and didn't let campers in areas with the terrible stuff! After we helped, Park the park ranger taught us a game where some people were native plants, some were invasive plants and some were humans! We learned that without the humans to eradicate the invasive plants they would take over so the work we did was so important!

Then tonight, was the ever so wonderful Coffee House! First were the skits- where each cabin makes a skit about whatever their little hearts desire, and then individual (or groups of) campers share their personal talents. We love seeing our campers talents, from hula hooping and singing, to violin and acting, our campers are simply the coolest group of kids we know!

Finally tonight we closed with a evening devotion and went to bed. Can y'all believe our last day of camp is tomorrow? We are getting some rest in anticipation of the excitement to come!

Camp 3: Monday!

Can't believe our first day of Camp 3 is already over! We had so much fun yesterday! Here's a little overview of what we did!

We started with breakfast- biscuits and gravy!- and then the usual cabin clean up.

After cabin clean up we had chapel, where we talked about different water stories and how water affects our lives everyday. Funny thing- God put water in the middle of a lot of stories in the Bible, we're wondering if that was on purpose...

Each family group made a skit of their take on these stories and presented it to the group. When we finished chapel we learned one of the most important CGM traditions- the CGM line dance! Our youth did so well with it!

Of course we had a delicious lunch of corn dogs and then a glorious siesta (which at CGM is spelled Q-U-I-E-T) because we were all so tired from an already busy morning!

When we woke up we were ready for a full afternoon! We got to choose between 3 things: rapelling at Fiery Gizzard, swimming at Fiery Gizzard or staying on campus for Arts & Crafts for tie dye and the pool! All were a blast and everyone was having fun!

We washed the dirt off and then it was time for one of the best nights of the week- taco bar night!! And to make it even better, we had banana pudding too! Too much yummy for CGM to handle!

Next we moved to Eucharist! We are so lucky to have Father Terry Street from Memphis here for the week! Welcome Father Terry! The singing was so joyous and every bit of the service had the Holy Spirit present!

After Eucharist we learned how to play a game called Ships and Sailors!

Next we went into our Messy Cabin Olympics! We had Couselor Trivia, Name that tune, a frozen t-shirt relay and a Bubblegum-flour relay to name a few! We were laughing and running all night long!

We had a brief closing prayer and went to bed- we are so grateful for a good night of sleep so we can be ready for Tuesday!