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Everyday we wake up to a little exercise in the morning to get our day started. We then get ready for some delicious breakfast and share a meal together. After this, we go back to our cabins and make our bed and a Bible themed "display" to earn some points (highest scoring cabin at the end of the week gets a prize from our tuck shop!). We then get a bit of a free time to hang-out and visit or play with other people outside of our cabin group. Then we go to chapel and sing some worship songs and listen to our speaker share God's Word. After this we go back to our cabin to have a few minutes of discussion and then it's time for us to go to our first "skill". The skills are a variety of things the campers get to choose in the beginning of the week. This includes Riflery, Archery, Drama, Sports, Crafts, Geek Squad (table-top games), Canoeing, Swimming, Rockwall Climbing, Axe Throwing, etc. (See below for more details). Then it is lunch time! After lunch the older kids do some chores as part of our training in growing in every aspects of life. When the chores are done, both older and younger campers get to have a little bit of a nap time! We call it "HHHH" which means Happy Horizontal Half-Hour. After this, we get to go to the next two skills our campers chose for themselves. Then the favorite time of most of our campers comes which is Tuck. Campers get to go to our Tuck Shop and choose two of the things available there whether it's a candy bar, chips, pop, freezies, etc. This is already included in the registration fee so they don't need to pay money for whatever they get. We then go back to our cabins, and begin to memorize some Bible verses for more points! After that, everyone in the camp gathers together to play a camp-wide game! We call this Monomania. During this game we get to interact with every other campers that aren't in the same cabin or skill blocks. After burning all that energy, we get to re-fuel by having supper amazingly made by our super cooks. Each cabins then get to prepare a little skit derived from a Bible verse to show everyone before the evening chapel for some more opportunity to earn more points! This is the time of the day where everyone gets to laugh at everyone else's silly antics while actually learning some valuable lessons. Our regular chapel session comes right after this and then comes Mug-up where we get to have some cookies and hot chocolate before bed while visiting other people. Some nights we are able to spend this time around the campfire where we sing camp fire songs and have a time of sharing about what God has been teaching and showing us throughout the week. After we cleaned up ourselves for bed, we all go back to our cabins and have a little devotion with our cabin mates. This is the time where we get to bond with everyone in our cabin and talk about the silliest, deepest, or most beautiful things in life. Where there is no judgement and lifetime memories are created. We then put our heads to rest and look forward to the next day where we can do this all over again.
...OK WE'RE LEARNING, BUT THAT'S THE POINT!
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