I am going to call this the Tylenol Tuesday update.
This is the day that my muscles boldly ask the question, "Why have you
not used me for a year?" I am a little sore today but it has been such a
good one. Again, great weather all day. We had a couple of little short
showers. They were not anything that hindered any activities.
Tuesday
is an action packed day. There is very little "down-time". We have
moved from one location to another trying to catch all of our teens in
their activities. We enjoyed a quality chapel today with the teens then
immediately hoofed it up to our sponsor session where Ken spoke. I will
highlight those two messages in a few.
Scotty
and I did take time out today to enjoy a new attraction here at The
Wilds. Today was the only day that sponsors were allowed to ride the new
Zip Line over Third Falls. For those who don't know. The Wilds have
four spectacular waterfalls on their property. Pictures and words can
not do them justice. For many many years, only First Falls, Second Falls
and Fourth Falls were accessible to campers. The Third Falls have never
been seen by any campers. The reason is Third Falls is inaccessible due
to the rugged steep terrain. The Wilds built a new observation deck
that overlooks the Third Falls and have installed a sophisticated zip
line. You can now zip line above the Third Falls literally traveling
directly 200ft above it. Views and vistas are amazing!!! We had a great
time doing this activity. Thank God for good engineers! I was expecting
to see a lot of steel and re-enforcements but much like the "Big Swing",
it is made from what looks like light poles. I guess they knew what
they were doing because here I sit explaining it.
We
caught just about all teens as they were enjoying free time this
afternoon. This is a great time for each teen to group up and simply do
the things they enjoy or become really adventurous and tackle one of the
big scary attractions.
We used new technology
this year. We trialed it for just a short time this afternoon. It
seemed to go well. We are going to organize a time where we can get more
of the teens together. This afternoon, we simply wanted to make sure it
would work. If you would like to see us at camp "live" you must
download the free "Periscope" app. It is owned by Twitter and works
alongside with twitter. Check it out if you would like to. We had some
great pictures of today's activities and we hope you all enjoyed them.
We are trying to get pics of everyone. It is hard to catch everyone
sometimes because of the different schedules and it is simply hard to find
everyone in the large crowds.
Scotty & Amanda attended the JBC (Junior Boot Camp) evening service tonight along with Neil & Christy. Scotty mentioned it was focused from Proverbs 4:23.
Mark emphasized the importance of protecting their hearts. Both of our
junior ladies are doing wonderfully. I went and visited them for a short
time this afternoon during their free time and they were ALL smiles.
Teen
Chapel service was teaching the teens that Christians are to have an
influence on the world. We are the salt and the light. If we have lost
our savor then we are just bland we don't taste good. As Christians, if
we have lost out savor, we are simply worldly. We are also the light of
the world. As you all know, our world is really dark right now. We as
Christians need to let our light shine because light "exposes".
The
sponsor message with Ken was simply rich. I could mention several
things about how he biblically expounded on The Wild's mission
statement. But, instead I am going to mention one thing that stood out
to me. He listed God's Mission.....God is on a mission to redeem and
restore fallen people to the likeness of His Son to the praise of His
glory.
Tonight's
focused on having us make Christ our All-in-All. We all need to
cultivate a passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. We need to work and
study to find out who Jesus really is. Our commitment to Jesus is to be
intentional. We must always be killing sin, or the sin will kill you.
There
is so much more I could mention about each service. But remember God
speaks to each of us differently through the preached word. If one of
the others were typing this update, I am sure they would mention other
things, other points, other declarations that hit home with them.
Use
the updates to ask your teens what the messages said to them. Use the
updates to help them remember which service it was and let them expound
on what God told them.
Nighty - Night
