Well, this is the end of my first week and my only weekend camp. And there are so many memories that are flooding my brain and hopefully will go into my fingers to get these stories into place. And, let me say at the beginning of the whole saga that my voice is SHOT.
Registration was actually pretty chill on the first week. We got the five churches that came in there and out like it was our job. Well, I mean it is but just go with it. After registration my teammate Linsdey and I had to dance on stage like little kids and do motions. Hard to believe I would do that right? This also brought a whole new meaning to the phrase, sweating everywhere. Plus my jeans were a bit too big and so I had to subtly keep the up while jumping up and down and doing motions. After we danced it was time to just meet my bible study kids and get to know them for a little bit. And let me tell you, they were awesome.
Recreation was a whole different animal all to itself. Seeing as my voice was already starting to fade, but now I'm screaming over music, a rec leader, 10 really hot kids, an air horn, and 10 kids getting hotter as the seconds tick on, I loved every single minute of it. The games are so much fun for me to play as well, but then again I always feel like a little kid. Plus on the first day of rec ever my Green Riptides won THE CAPTAINS OAR!! (which sounds like no big deal outside of CentriKid but it's a huge deal here!) After Rec comes lunch, hang time, supper, worship, and my favorite time of all which was church group time. Church group time is when staff gets to invest in a group of kids from one church without having distractions from other people. The kids are also a lot more comfortable and they definitely open up more in this time. My kids told stories about their lives and just opened up beyond belief. It's funny that the church group that I was put with had some youth get killed in a car wreck and I can identify with that as my brother died from a car wreck.
OMC was AWESOME!! I got a cooler dumped on my head, water balloons chunked at me, and shaving cream everywhere. My kiddies didn't win but man we gave it our best shot!!
I helped with the archery track time and man you could tell that I was rusty. I was hitting in the same spot on the target ... that spot just wasn't the yellow. I got better as the week went on but I only hit the yellow once on the last day and that is a feat all in itself. After the week was over I got to teach my soccer track time all by myself and being nervous is an understatement. After I got out there with the kids though, it started to flow and that's when I knew that God had heard my plea to give me some ideas to do with these kids. Even the devotional at the end of the track time was from God, because it definitely wasn't the one that was in the manual but the kids understood it and made the connection back to their own lives and that's what counts.
After the Week 1 kids left almost immediately the weekend kids began to pour in and that was a elephant sized feat all by itself. My team persevered, however and continued to be amazing and finish up what needed to be done when it needed to be done.
That night I got my first opportunity to lead a little girl to Salvation and it was the best thing in my life. She understood that she needed God and that her relationship with God had to grow and decided to pray the prayer in a dorm room right there that night. It was amazing, and something I will definitely never forget.
Please pray for my team as the Week 2 kids come. We're almost doubling in size from the weekend which means we're quadrupling in kids from Week 1. Just pray for strength, energy, and that our hearts will be prepared to minster and serve these kids no matter what is going on at home or around us. Pray that the kids are open to the Gospel and that their hearts will want to know more about God and more about how he saves us!
Peace, Love, and CK
Taylor
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