Friday, August 6, 2010

In the Groove

Every cabin has a different flavor to it. Each girl adds her own distinct personality to the atmosphere as the group learns to work together. By Friday, we have found our groove and each cabin of girls has a preferred way of doing things, and a unique style of relating to each other. Each week I love to see all the pieces fall into place.
Here is my whole summer in one post - although these pictures evoke a multitude of more great memories and stories of how God had His way in hearts! Countless times, He shewed Himself strong on my behalf as He stepped in and touched lives in the way that I could only dream of doing. I look back with gratefulness that I was able to meet each girl and have the pleasure of sharing in her life for a week. God used each one of them to mold me and teach me. He is still working to make me more like Himself, and I pray He will keep doing the same for each of these precious girls I met this summer.

JUNIOR 1 *** JUNE 21-26 *** PASTOR JOE LACY

This group:
*** was the first cabin I ever had! They were great.
*** would randomly turn to one another and beg dramatically, "Honey if you love me, won't you please, please smile?" It always brought a boatload of giggles.
*** asked me to tell them a bedtime story on Friday night... So I told them about "the Wonderful Wizard of Wyoming." :-)

FAMILY FOCUS, CAMP MEETING *** JUNE 30-JULY 3 *** EVANGELIST DAN HADIK, DR GREG HUFFMAN


I made a sweet little friend!

TEEN 1 ** JULY 5-10 ** DR. GREG HUFFMAN

This group:
*** nicknamed me Blue Monkey.
*** Loved to cheer their team on during the game time... Go red!
*** They didn't so much love to take long hikes in the wilderness ;-)

TEEN 2 *** JULY 12-17 *** EVANGELIST CHUCK CRABTREE

This group:
*** were the masters at bribing the cabin cleanup checkers every day! (This particular day they dressed up "Bobby George" the pole in the middle of our cabin! It was hilariously creative...)
*** all wore their hair in pigtails for Wacky Wednesday.
*** would stop at nothing to win at game time! A very competitive, fun-loving, um, accident-prone group ;-)

JUNOR 2 *** JULY 19-24 *** PASTOR TOM LOGGANS

This group:
*** went fishing on the muddiest day EVER!! (and one even lost her shoe in the water. Thankfully, we found it.)
*** loved to sing! In their world, everything called for a song :-) They taught me a new song called, Jesus is Changing Me (actions included); they put their heads together to create a new song in honor of Wacky Wednesday; and they fell asleep every night listening to me sing, Jesus My Lord, My God, My All.

JUNIOR 3 *** JULY 26-31 *** PASTOR STEVE PITCHFORD

This group:
*** made a little couch out of the extra mattress in our cabin. Used it every night to gather around for devotion time.
*** racked up an unbelievably impressive amount of Hero Status throughout the week with all of their thoughtful words and actions.
*** picked more "surprise flowers" than I can count! They loved to give :-)



"For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth; to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him." II Chronicles 16:9a

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing the camp experience!!! I love the photos of you and your campers (sooo cute!). I especially love this last pic & the verse you put with it. It is so true! May we recognize His strength in our behalf every day.
    Dixie
    PS it looks amazingly beautiful!

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  2. Oh it is! That's for sure. And it's even better in person ;-) Thanks so much for the comment. I need to call so we can catch up sometime! I miss talking with you.

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Thanks for sharing with me!