The first day of 5th and 6th grade camp has come and gone, and what a fun day it has been! We have been blessed with 6 full cabins this week and lots of kids=lots of FUN!!
Each day we start with an optional hike and we had a multitude of campers come this morning, some cabins had all campers participate! This is always enjoyable for both campers and counselors, as we get to start our day with a beautiful view of the Cottonwood Canyon from the highest point of the hike. After the hike, the hikers were joined with the entire group for flag raising followed by a game of over-under and leap frog. And of course to top the beginning of our morning off we had an excellent breakfast of french toast and bacon. This week we are especially blessed by three extra cooks from Helena and they are good!
The cooks came with our speaker Kevin Schaeffer, youth pastor of Helena Alliance, and 6 highschool students. Each of his students dresses up as a super hero, we have Superman, Batman, Mr. Incredible (our very own Program Director David Denny who has a striking resemblence to the hero), Wonder Woman, Storm, Robin, Captain America and Cat Woman. They are interviewed and today Kevin stressed the importance of choosing the right hero.
The kids then go to 2 different skillbuilders through out the day. This week we are offering Climbing Wall, Canoeing, Archery, Riflery, Camp Craft, and Arts & Crafts. We alos have an activity area purely for the campers enjoyment. The boys all got to ride the zipline and the girls either went climbing or played folf. I got to lead the folf group and what a fun group. We had our very professional golf clap perfected by the end of our course.
Tonight at Fireside we sang some great songs and had a moving story about our missionary spotlight David Thompson. If you would like to learn more about him his personal testimony is on youtube, or his missionary support page is posted under the missionary link on the national Christian and Missionary Alliance webpage. We also got to hear the very endearing story of how Jerome and Harriet (our missionaries here in residence for the summer) met.
Well the beautiful colors of the sunset are starting to fade after our short thunder head earlier this evening. My name is Joni Weidenaar, I am an assistant Program Director, and have been very blessed to see returning faces this week.Thank you so much for entrusting us with your children. They are a joy and a blessing to us at YAA.
God Bless!!
-Joni
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