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 2: Thursday!

First of all, we had a birthday yesterday! Happy birthday Wallace! We're so glad you spent your day here with us at CGM! (Yes, that is Wallace under all that hair!)

Thursday was all about our "buckets"- the invisible bucket on top of our heads that gauges how we are feeling. In chapel the staff put on a pretty awesome skit- including buckets and water- about how your bucket affects you. We learned that how others treat you can empty or fill your bucket, and then how you treat others can do the same. 

After a chicken sandwich lunch and a siesta full of naps, we were ready to fill other people's buckets on our day of service! We had 2 parts of our service rotation, one for helping DuBose and the other for helping the ladies of Thistle Farms! Around DuBose we spread mulch in needed places and cleaned up trash around campus. In the downstairs chapel we learned about Magdalene House and Thistle Farms, what they do and how we could help. Yesterday we helped by cutting t-shirts to be sent to the paper studio and had a blast doing so! Everyone kept cutting when it was time to finish- we just loved being together while doing something good for someone else!

 When we finished our service projects, we played in the pool and in the field (ultimate frisbee) a little bit before free time. And then last night.... we had Coffee House! An annual favorite that is our talent show! Our youth get to show off all the wonderful things they can do- from singing, to piano, to belly clapping (ask your child for a demonstration- it is quite the sight). Each cabin also performs a skit- most of them this year were some form of interpretive dance to some pretty hilarious songs.We love getting to watch so many come out of their shells and show us how talented they are! Below are just a few pictures of our acts from last night. They were pretty priceless!

We finally finished with Compline all together. It was a great day full of laughter and life!

Camp Three: Skit Night/Coffee House

Thursday night is always our version of a talent show, Skit Night and Coffee House. Every cabin does a skit and then whoever wants to sign up to perform for Coffee House can do so as well. This year we had a lot of different acts from our camp three kids:

Cabin 6 Skit -  Mini Montana

 Cabin 2 Skit - Counselor Impressions

 Cabin 5 Skit - Class revolt against teacher

Coffee House Acts:
Gracie Singing

Ramzi and David singing

 Julia performing "Not So Magic Magic"

Rachel singing (with Cody on guitar)

 Lizzy and Jani singing

 Mia singing

 Bitsy juggling

 Caroline singing

 Evelyn and Hannah doing a skit

 Maggie singing