Thursday Night

This morning began with early morning worship through music in Ponderosa Chapel and we watched a mission video that the directors of Hume's Middle & High School camps filmed down in Haiti this Spring. In the video and through discussion/prayer we were challenged to be missionaries wherever God calls us.Thursday's recreation was "Super Spirit Day" with the theme of "Red, White & Blue on You." The rec. games were four wild relay races on the upper lawn with triple spirit points.During afternoon free time, there was a basketball tournament in the Ark (Saint Matthew's team of David Bridges, Drew Downing & Matt Trowbridge took second), the Art Kart on the lower lawn, along with the boating on the lake, swimming in the pool and card games on the "Hume-N-Beans" deck.After dinner was the counselor gauntlet (a competition where Wipeout meets Gladiator) where Saint Matthew was ably represented by Drew Eldred & TJ Hurst.Thursday evening, our speaker, Chuck Bomar, shared that each of us have "giants" in our lives and the one that most of us have is guilt & shame...and often that "giant" separates us from God. We often confuse faithfulness with perfection and when we fail at being perfect we feel guilt & shame. Chuck challenged us that when the Holy Spirit "convicts" us of or sin, we should run to the cross rather than feeling guilt & shame.At the end of the evening Chuck challenged students to pause and reflect where they’re at and if they needed to reconnect with God to stay behind and spend some time in prayer.After evening chapel was open camp: with skating in "The Ark," a skate competition at "The Skate Park" (won by Emmit Kavert from Saint Matthew) and Open Mic on the "Hume-N-Beans" deck.~PD, et al.