Saint Matthew HSM
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday Night
Friday morning's chapel started with all 1000+ in Ponderosa Chapel with a time of worship through music. We then grouped together with our church and celebrated communion and journeyed out to the lake for Lauren Murk's baptism.
This morning's rec chapel was the great race. The great race had 28 teams going to 10 different stations all over camp. There were puzzles to solve, mystery things to munch, and physical challenges. Saint Matthew had a number of teams in the top 10.
During free time another 27 went up to high adventure, spent some time discussing faith and life, swimming, biking and playing hearts.
Well the dinner bell rang . . . tonight we find out who won recreation, our closing chapel and victory circle. See you tomorrow with more details.
Also Kyle has a big surprise for his mom and dad...
This morning's rec chapel was the great race. The great race had 28 teams going to 10 different stations all over camp. There were puzzles to solve, mystery things to munch, and physical challenges. Saint Matthew had a number of teams in the top 10.
During free time another 27 went up to high adventure, spent some time discussing faith and life, swimming, biking and playing hearts.
Well the dinner bell rang . . . tonight we find out who won recreation, our closing chapel and victory circle. See you tomorrow with more details.
Also Kyle has a big surprise for his mom and dad...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday Night
Thursday began with Early Morning Worship with Campaign in Ponderosa Chapel. Afterwords we heard from this year's mission speaker, Gerhard Duvengage, from Jabulani Africa Ministries (JAM). Gerhard shared how missions are more than just going over seas . . . we have mission opportunities right outside our door.
After chapel everyone dressed up in in their rainbow duds and painted mugs for Super Spirit Day. Super Spirit Day was a series of relay races on the upper lawn. There were plenty of wild and crazy costumes and some wild and crazy relay races.
Another group of 26 went to high adventure and 36 went to paintball during free time.
After dinner each team sent a counselor to ran the gauntlet on the lake. Justin Bayne & Zach Pattison represented their teams and Saint Matthew.
In evening chapel, Jim unpacked the story of The Good Samaritan and gave us four questions for us to wrestle with during cabin time. 1) Have I paused long enough to see the needs in front of me? 2) What are the excuses have I been using to justify not helping others? 3) How do I view people? 4) Who should I be neighborly toward. Afterwords he offered the opportunity for students who had been drifting away from God to rededicate their lives to Jesus Christ.
During evening free time a number of students from Saint Matthew shared their gifts during Open Mic on the Hume-N-Bean's deck.
When the evening bell rang the guys from Saint Matthew headed up to Victory Circle for some "guy time" with God. And the girls from Saint Matthew headed out to the Skate Park with some "girl time" with God. It was a great day!
After chapel everyone dressed up in in their rainbow duds and painted mugs for Super Spirit Day. Super Spirit Day was a series of relay races on the upper lawn. There were plenty of wild and crazy costumes and some wild and crazy relay races.
Another group of 26 went to high adventure and 36 went to paintball during free time.
After dinner each team sent a counselor to ran the gauntlet on the lake. Justin Bayne & Zach Pattison represented their teams and Saint Matthew.
In evening chapel, Jim unpacked the story of The Good Samaritan and gave us four questions for us to wrestle with during cabin time. 1) Have I paused long enough to see the needs in front of me? 2) What are the excuses have I been using to justify not helping others? 3) How do I view people? 4) Who should I be neighborly toward. Afterwords he offered the opportunity for students who had been drifting away from God to rededicate their lives to Jesus Christ.
During evening free time a number of students from Saint Matthew shared their gifts during Open Mic on the Hume-N-Bean's deck.
When the evening bell rang the guys from Saint Matthew headed up to Victory Circle for some "guy time" with God. And the girls from Saint Matthew headed out to the Skate Park with some "girl time" with God. It was a great day!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Wednesday Night
Wednesday at Hume:
Morning finds kids waking up a little bit slower but biscuits and gragy are worth moving for. Some truly extraordinary teens participated in the biathlon for their teams--before breakfast!!!! The swim was 200 yards and Saint Matt's dominated the top ten, with Ricky Niese in 3rd and Kevin Allan in 4th. The run was 3.2 miles around beautiful Hume Lake, Selena MacDuff came in 3rd for the girls, Matt Day came in 2nd for the boys and Ryan "Lil" Niese came in 8th for the boys.
We went from breakfast to morning worship. Morning worship was acoustic southern gospel (not Pastor David's favorite).
After worship there were 7 breakout sessions and students were able to chose two. The sessions included: "Staying Lit", UFC (untamed for Christ), "The Tangible Cross," "Tough Times and Sunday School Verses" and "What Nobody Ever Tells You About Missions." Afterwords we had a breakout session with our cabins to discuss what we learned and how it can change how we choose to live. The girls were so moved by the staying lit charge (to stay grounded in God's word) and to live out their commitment to Christ, that they went to bed late looking up and recording inspirational bible verses.
During free time we had 40 kids who went to "High Adventure" challenging the 50 foot drop of screamer as well as taking a leap of faith on the high ropes 40 feet up in the treees as they conquered their fear of heights.
The evening was finished off by a concert by Campaign and evening free time. The week has been blessed by lots of God moments. Teens feeling the love of God and His forgiveness. Its exciting to watch them shine with the love of God.
OHHH how could I forget??? We had four teams in the Basketball tournament. Eric Alman. shot a three pointer for his team (which included Zack Fitterer and Matt Abele), but the exciting games were the girls; Cassandra Lewandowski, Kristen Curry, McKenzie Brantley, who took first place (9:8) after 4 games of double elimination. Woot Woot!!!!
God's peace,
Kathy Fitterer
PS Hi Tom. I love you.
Morning finds kids waking up a little bit slower but biscuits and gragy are worth moving for. Some truly extraordinary teens participated in the biathlon for their teams--before breakfast!!!! The swim was 200 yards and Saint Matt's dominated the top ten, with Ricky Niese in 3rd and Kevin Allan in 4th. The run was 3.2 miles around beautiful Hume Lake, Selena MacDuff came in 3rd for the girls, Matt Day came in 2nd for the boys and Ryan "Lil" Niese came in 8th for the boys.
We went from breakfast to morning worship. Morning worship was acoustic southern gospel (not Pastor David's favorite).
After worship there were 7 breakout sessions and students were able to chose two. The sessions included: "Staying Lit", UFC (untamed for Christ), "The Tangible Cross," "Tough Times and Sunday School Verses" and "What Nobody Ever Tells You About Missions." Afterwords we had a breakout session with our cabins to discuss what we learned and how it can change how we choose to live. The girls were so moved by the staying lit charge (to stay grounded in God's word) and to live out their commitment to Christ, that they went to bed late looking up and recording inspirational bible verses.
During free time we had 40 kids who went to "High Adventure" challenging the 50 foot drop of screamer as well as taking a leap of faith on the high ropes 40 feet up in the treees as they conquered their fear of heights.
The evening was finished off by a concert by Campaign and evening free time. The week has been blessed by lots of God moments. Teens feeling the love of God and His forgiveness. Its exciting to watch them shine with the love of God.
OHHH how could I forget??? We had four teams in the Basketball tournament. Eric Alman. shot a three pointer for his team (which included Zack Fitterer and Matt Abele), but the exciting games were the girls; Cassandra Lewandowski, Kristen Curry, McKenzie Brantley, who took first place (9:8) after 4 games of double elimination. Woot Woot!!!!
God's peace,
Kathy Fitterer
PS Hi Tom. I love you.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday Night
So here it is, Hume Lake, day 3 already. This morning started off great with a time of early morning worship with Campaign in Ponderosa Chapel.
For Rec. our teams assembled and cheered on the campwide Kajabe crazyness.
After lunch we adjourned to the lower lawn for the camp picture and Saint Matthew took their group picture and was filmed for this week's camp DVD.
Free time was spent on the lake, at the pool and pond, a hike up to the little brown church and hanging out on the Hume-N-Bean's deck playing cards. Four teams from Saint Matthew competed in the volleyball tournament and one of them ended up taking first place!
Later that evening in chapel Jim shared how "Anyone who has seen Jesus has seen the Father," and four key traits of Jesus 1) Jesus hung out with the outcasts of society, 2) Jesus felt compassion for the hurting, the sick and the poor, 3) Jesus brought forgiveness to condemned people and 4) Jesus showed us a new kind of love. Jim wrapped his talk up with the Gospel message that it is God's desire for everyone to be saved. After the Gospel message we had more that 20 students who went forward and received Christ for the first time and the Saint Matthew staff and students shared time in prayer and laughter and a few tears.
God is good!
For Rec. our teams assembled and cheered on the campwide Kajabe crazyness.
After lunch we adjourned to the lower lawn for the camp picture and Saint Matthew took their group picture and was filmed for this week's camp DVD.
Free time was spent on the lake, at the pool and pond, a hike up to the little brown church and hanging out on the Hume-N-Bean's deck playing cards. Four teams from Saint Matthew competed in the volleyball tournament and one of them ended up taking first place!
Later that evening in chapel Jim shared how "Anyone who has seen Jesus has seen the Father," and four key traits of Jesus 1) Jesus hung out with the outcasts of society, 2) Jesus felt compassion for the hurting, the sick and the poor, 3) Jesus brought forgiveness to condemned people and 4) Jesus showed us a new kind of love. Jim wrapped his talk up with the Gospel message that it is God's desire for everyone to be saved. After the Gospel message we had more that 20 students who went forward and received Christ for the first time and the Saint Matthew staff and students shared time in prayer and laughter and a few tears.
God is good!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Monday Night
This morning in chapel we delved into a time of worship through music with this week's worship band, Campaign (they were in Meadow Ranch last year). After worship we heard from this week's speaker, Jim Crews. Jim is the Lead Pastor at Valley Bible Fellowship in Las Vegas. Jim continued from where Rich left off last night and challenged us as followers of Jesus Christ to model - goodness, righteousness and truth.
Today we were also divided up into our rec. (recreation) teams. This year’s teams are “The Pie-Wielders” (mimes-blue shirts) and “The Spritzerizers” (clowns-gold shirts). This week there are 1000 students and adults attending Ponderosa Camp. Because of the number of campers from Saint Matthew, (153), we are split among a number of different sub team (28 total). With names such as Toodles, Squishy McButtercup, Zippidy, Mr. Doodle, Flapjack and Cranky Mike (to name a few). The competition games included Doctor Patsy, Flagga Pockets, Muddy Besteezy and Her Majesty Noodles Alulu (goofy names and even goofier rec. games).
Forty of our campers played paintball in the afternoon and another 22 will play on Wednesday.
PD et al.
Today we were also divided up into our rec. (recreation) teams. This year’s teams are “The Pie-Wielders” (mimes-blue shirts) and “The Spritzerizers” (clowns-gold shirts). This week there are 1000 students and adults attending Ponderosa Camp. Because of the number of campers from Saint Matthew, (153), we are split among a number of different sub team (28 total). With names such as Toodles, Squishy McButtercup, Zippidy, Mr. Doodle, Flapjack and Cranky Mike (to name a few). The competition games included Doctor Patsy, Flagga Pockets, Muddy Besteezy and Her Majesty Noodles Alulu (goofy names and even goofier rec. games).
Forty of our campers played paintball in the afternoon and another 22 will play on Wednesday.
PD et al.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sunday Night
We arrived safely up to Hume Lake and it's going to be a hot one this week.
This year's theme is "Hey Rube" which has a lot to do with Clowns and Mimes. During the week we're talking through the idea that as Christians we are called to be the “salt of the earth,” and to show love to our neighbors.
The opener was a madcap circus show of clowns vs. mimes (which will carry into our recreation teams tomorrow and through the week). Whiley Smith (one of the Hume staff from Saint Matthew) was in the opener and Jill Skeva (another of the Hume staff also from Saint Matthew) was one of the make-up artists.
Rich Baker (who is one of the two directors of Ponderosa camp) was the speaker who delved into God's love letter to us and shared from the beatitudes in Matthew 5 and set the stage for our theme this week.
All of our students who wanted, got signed up for Paintball and High Adventure that will happen later this week.
Well the bell rang so it's off to bed. We'll post a few pictures tomorrow.
PD et al.
This year's theme is "Hey Rube" which has a lot to do with Clowns and Mimes. During the week we're talking through the idea that as Christians we are called to be the “salt of the earth,” and to show love to our neighbors.
The opener was a madcap circus show of clowns vs. mimes (which will carry into our recreation teams tomorrow and through the week). Whiley Smith (one of the Hume staff from Saint Matthew) was in the opener and Jill Skeva (another of the Hume staff also from Saint Matthew) was one of the make-up artists.
Rich Baker (who is one of the two directors of Ponderosa camp) was the speaker who delved into God's love letter to us and shared from the beatitudes in Matthew 5 and set the stage for our theme this week.
All of our students who wanted, got signed up for Paintball and High Adventure that will happen later this week.
Well the bell rang so it's off to bed. We'll post a few pictures tomorrow.
PD et al.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Hume Lake - Ponderosa Camp
Hume Lake begins on Sunday, July 26. Check in starts in the Teen Center at church at 7:30 am. You must be on campus by 8:15 am to check-in. The buses depart from church at 9 am (with or without you). Our return is by 3:30 pm on Saturday, August 1. All your forms and fees need to be turned in before you can go.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
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