Shinning!

On the last night of camp we always have a big all camp bonfire! This years was the best one of the past 5 years! All week we where talking about shinning our light that God gave us. This year was a bit different at the fire. We had the fire and we all where handed candles. We didn't know what we were to do with them so we just held them for awhile. We lit the candles one person at a time and the light spread a far way! We where surprised how fast lighting the candles spread and how much light it gave off. James Allen continued on to say that if each light represented one of us and the light we have in Christ along with how quickly the light of God could spread if we would take the time to share. We where challenged to be the light when we got back home. Someone who would stand up for what we believe, listen to what God wants us to do no matter how big or small it may be. If only there were more words to describe how amazing that night was. When we put out our candles we noticed how dark it became with just the fire burning. On top of all this we had talked to the guys about things that girls struggle with and the guys did the same for us. It was a neat thing to hear they where helping us to help them and vise versa. The best thing the guys said was this " You girls could get up tomorrow morning and walk out of your cabins with no makeup and bead head hair and we would find you Beautiful." All you could hear from the girls was laughing! So we told the guys " Well we like guys who are gentlemen." We didnt know what they would do with that at all. Anna and JAH both looked at each other and said that sounds like a challenge. No one know what was going to happen the next day. The next morning when we woke up we got dressed walked out of the cabin and got in line for breakfast. Anna who is in charge looked at all us and said " Girls raise your hands if you didnt put make up on." ALL the girls didnt wear makeup or do their hair that morning! As we where getting dismissed to go eat we noticed the guys all in the lower KDA. We found out that they where being gentlemen and letting all the girls eat first! it was soo neat to have that happen!

Power of God!

Wow is all that I can say about the power of God! Never before have i known a love so powerful. On monday night at chapel at camp it was as though it was a normal thursday night at camp. Thursday is the day that God just comes and over takes the camp. On tuesday night while we were in chapel we did our prayer and worship time. God was working in big ways that night breaking down walls, giving strength, and comforting people! We had music in the background and everywhere you looked you saw teens praying and praising God. The feeling there that night is indescribable all i can say is God is great! chapel ran late that night. People where getting there feet washed, everyone praying with each other or for each other. This was only the start to an amazing week of chapel! On that night when we walked out of chapel we all felt so comforted and at peace. The next thing you know we are in front of the lake and me and my friend i was walking with looked up at the sky! WOW what a picture God painted that night is was so neat to look up and see a clear night with bright shinning stars up in the sky! If I had the chance to sleep outside in the dirt that night i would have done so.


Another night at camp we did a sin/praises activity that was neat to do. On the floor when we walked in to the chapel there was a black sheet with black sharpies and a white sheet with colorful sharpies. On the black one we wrote our sins on to confess them and no one could read them because they where in black. On the white one we put down our praises. It was neat to see and read all the different things everyone was thankful for. On the last night of camp we had a fire and we took the black sheet and burned it and the white one we hung up so that we could read it all and see what everyone else had wrote. I had a blast and when i can put more of the experience in to words i will but i am just so over taken by what God did at camp that week!!!