Today was a regular camp day. We started out with a bit of worship and devotionals in the morning, ate breakfast, and then went on our work crews. It's really fun to hear what songs the campers already know out here and teach a few new ones from the Midwest camp -- they always sing so enthusiastically and pick up new songs very quickly. We've also been using YouTube videos a bit for the more contemporary songs that we don't have piano music for. Technology is great sometimes -- we can quickly pull up the lyrics and the music to whatever song is requested, which makes the worship more personal to the group based on what they like to sing.
During the work crews, I became better acquainted with the wildlife out there... we were cleaning out a playhouse and found 3 pretty scary looking spiders. Thankfully there were some boys around to squish them because I certainly didn't want to get too close (:
For today's Bible study, I worked with the children's group. There were 5 of them, and they were so great! They thought a lot about what we were working on and remembered a lot later when I quizzed them. We talked about Luke 2:41-52 -- when Jesus disappears for a few days as a child and his parents find him in the temple. It was cool to look back as a young adult at a story I read when I was a child; the major things that stuck out to me is how important it is to look to Jesus for the perfect example of how we should live our lives and that as we grow older, it's so important to be an example ourselves to the youth around us. They are such wonderful kids and look up to everyone who interacts with them.
The afternoon included crafts (tie-dying), recreation (swimming), and some free time before dinner. After dinner, we had a brief worship service where we reviewed the songs we taught, as well as talked about a few verses and watched the Bethany Hamilton documentary. For those of you who don't know who she is, Bethany is a teen from Hawaii whose arm was bitten off in a shark attack. She continues to do what she loves - surfing - despite her accident, and she is very strong in her faith in God. It was a very powerful documentary; I'd definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it. It talked a lot about how God uses us in ways we might not expect or necessarily want at first. Bethany received a lot of press after she began to be successful in her surfing, which allowed her to talk about God and how He brought her through such a hard experience on a very public scale. She mentioned how this wouldn't be something she'd normally be comfortable doing, but because God wanted to use her in this way, she did whatever she could to bring him glory in her life. For me, it was very thought-provoking idea -- how does God want to use me, and how can I use the gifts He has given me to glorify Him each day? It really drove in the idea that we shouldn't let anything in this world stop us from being joyful in our circumstances and fulfilling God's purpose.
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