Camp Thurs. Morning

CAMP • 6.26.08

Yoga?

For the “Early Bird Special” this morning Matt the parrot led them in a few short yoga exercises. After the students had experienced yoga parrot style the Missions Site Coordinators ran down the aisles waving their flags and getting their teams excited. Each team had a whole lot of spirit this morning but the Purple Craze was just a little louder.

The recreation teams were not to be out-done as they screamed for their teams. The students were all crazy excited but the mighty green machine led by Clay Austin took the Spirit Stick.

For “Choose the Way” Brody faked passing out when his date’s father came home. The students choose that Brody would fake an illness to avoid CPR.

For “ PSA with the PA” Jake informed the students that just because someone puts on a wig does not make him or her a different person, and it is actually not even a good disguise. He knows that Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are the same person and believes that it is very obvious. The students laughed as pictures of George Bush, Oprah, and the Rock with blonde wigs on appeared on the screen.

For the “Virtual Virus” 7 featured emailsanta.com. He read of several e-mails sent to Santa and one that he had actually sent Santa. Then it was time for youth minister of the day! Tim was “sashed” and given his cup trophy that the students made for him. After that a short video was shown to illustrate how to be prepared for the testing of your faith.

Callie Priest the event coordinator came up and shared how Compassion releases students from poverty in Jesus name. The children that are sponsored by Compassion are discipled, feed, given medical attention and much more. She shared about her trip with Student Life to the Philippines and how it had impacted her. She shared about how those Compassion students were lights in dark places.

Then Raf, part of the Student Life team this summer went up and shared her story and how compassion has affected her in more detail. She grew up in a slum, with a father that was a drunkard. At the moment that her family needed it the most her mother found out about Compassion, and she became a Compassion student. Through that program she got to go to a Christian school and learn about the love of Jesus for her and her family. For the first time in her life she knew hope. Through the Lord’s grace she was able to also go to college and graduate at the top of her class. The Lord transformed her family, and her father is now saved, and her family is active in local ministry. She was once a compassion packet lying in a booth then someone responded to God’s challenge and now she is a living testimony of how that changed a life. Life to the fullest is not based on her economic or social status, but that she knows Christ.