A-list - Tuesday, July 12th

Specialties have been extra-busy this week! Two cabins I am going to focus on today are our "A-list" specialties - Art specialty and Archery specialty!

Art specialty is led by the amazing adult volunteer Rena! And they have been getting into all kinds of crafts. The first thing they did was embellish Camp t-shirts with felt, embroidery, and I think I even saw a little bit of puffy paint in there! Counselor Emily Sebald and junior counselor Ashley Stellmacher (who is quite crafty herself!) encourage their campers to add color to everything, be in on a canvas or in their own lives. There's also one boy in art specialty from cabin 10! Whoo hoo!

Rena and Ashley Hard at Work

Our other "A-list" specialty is archery specialty. Cabin 5, led by counselor Kate Zabrowski and junior counselor Megan Voss, and cabin 11, led by counselor Adam Cox and junior counselor Greg Strommen, team up every morning for two hours and learn all there is to learn from the knowledgeable Sarah Sherod about the art of shooting arrows. By now they are getting quite good at it, but there's more in store for them then just shooting arrows all day - rumors are going around that archery specialty will be making their own quivers later in the week in addition to shooting arrows through flaming hoops at night! Parents, get ready for to deal with your own little Robin Hoods when they come home on Saturday...

Our passage for today comes from I Corinthians 12:9 and says,

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

 Even though we all go through problems and trials in our lives, God tells us His grace is sufficient for us. We, with our flawed and limited human judgment, may think that God should do x, y, and z in our lives, just as we see fit - then we'll be happy in this life, right? Wrong. Whereas we can only see the here and now, God has a clear view of our hereafter - and it's being spent with Him in heaven. His plans and thoughts are so much higher than our plans and thoughts, and His grace can get us through anything! We may think we need something more than God, but God is enough for us. Always. When we realize this fact, we can more easily rejoice in our difficulties because we can see that God is only strengthening our faith through the adversities we face in life.

THE BERRIES ARE GETTING CLOSER TO BEING RIPE!

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