Volleyball! Awesome! - Wednesday, July 13th

This week has been jam-packed and CRAZY! The two other specialties we are focusing on today are volleyball and awesome hour - which have been completely intense this week!

First of all, volleyball specialty is being led by the multi-talented Sy Vanissaveth, volleyball extraordinaire. Cabin 7, led by counselor Erin Scharenbroch and junior counselor Maria Schlect, as well as Cabin 3, led by counselor Keely Keese and junior counselor Valerie Lumsden, meet every morning for two hours and practice bumps, sets, and spikes! This week they have learned about proper stretching techniques and developed their playing skills through round-robin drills and fun practice games. Every time I squeak my way over to the courts, everyone seems to be smiling and having a wonderful time! The weather has been fabulous for volleyball specialty - and the people have been fabulous as well!

Set that ball!

Stretching is a smart way to avoid injury

Also, Awesome Hour specialty has been, well - AWESOME! Counselor Kristen Carow and junior counselor Katherine Van Alstine of cabin 6B along with counselor Matt Werner and junior counselor Alex Vanissaveth of cabin 10 have led their campers in some wild activities this week, including (but not limited to) egg tosses, music video-making, dumping food on each other from the tree deck, and even possibly taking part in a flash mob (this is a neat one of the Hallelujah Chorus). Come to the closing program where awesome hour specialty will show off some of the crazy stunts they did this week! It has been exciting to see what awesome thing they will do next!

Wednesday's passage is from I Timothy 1:12:

 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that He considered me faithful, appointing me to His service.

Jesus is just great. So many times in our lives we try and do things all by ourselves - we try and save money for a car by ourselves, we try to make a relationship grow stronger by ourselves, or we try and face grief or problems by ourselves. When we go at the world with our fists up but without God's counsel, we will ultimately fail. We cannot do anything by ourselves - for it is Christ Jesus our Lord who gives us the strength to face each new day's trials and struggles! He loves us deeply. Unconditionally. And unfailingly! More than that, (if that's possible) to those who have the Holy Spirit in their heart, He has given a commission to tell others about Jesus and the saving message of the Gospel. His service is all we live for - and that is more than enough!

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