Wednesday Night

Wednesday morning began with the Hume Lake biathlon, a swim in the lake (~10 laps) and a run around the lake (~3.2 miles). Two Saint Matthew students (Zach Smith & Mitchell Muskat) were in the top five of the swimmers and eight Saint Matthew students (girls and guys) competed as runners. After the biathalon was the Wednesday morning seminars. Students were able to pick from 5 seminars over 2 different sessions. Some of the seminars were, "Life," "If God is good Why is There Evil?," and "Legacy" to name a few followed by a time of worship through music with "Love Lite." After lunch we went to the pond and ark for our church free time. While there, we spent time on the Noah's Nightmare rope swing, the blob, playing basketball, foosball & ping-pong in the ark, and just chilling on the lawn with friends. After church free time a group of 47 headed of to "battle" on the paintball field. Wednesday dinner was split into a Guys Dinner-manly eathing and extreme musical chairs won a Saint Matthew student (Matt Trowbridge). The Girls Dinner-a time of singing and counselors sharing their "mad dance skills." Wednesday night chapel, Chuck shared with us that when we operate in God's design we'll get: peace, joy and ultimate contementment in our lives. After chapel the evening concluded with the Kajabe finals on the upper lawn and free time hanging out with friends. PD, et al.

Tuesday Around Camp

Tuesday Night

Our morning chapel began with an extended worship time and afterwards we met with our lead counselors for a short devotional about God's sufficiency followed by some solo quiet time to get alone with God.Tuesday’s rec. was the game of Kajabe at 7 different cans.
There were plenty of activities during free time including: a volleyball tournament, a 101 seminar on “Alone time with God,” swimming, boating, hiking and playing cards on the Hume-N-Beans deck.
Tuesday’s evening chapel was the gospel message and we had 6 Saint Matthew students who stayed behind with our counselors after receiving Christ for the first time . . . which is always a meaningful experience to be a part of.
Tuesday evening’s free time included a mini concert by "Love Lite," grabbing a late night snack at one of the food venues, playing games or just hanging out, meeting and talking with new friends.
PD, et al.

Monday Around Camp

Monday Night

This morning the wake up bell began our full first day here at Hume Lake. After breakfast we journeyed over to Ponderosa Chapel for morning chapel and spent some time in worship through music with this year's worship band “Love Lite." After worship, we were introduced to this year’s speaker, Chuck Bomar, who is the lead pastor of Colossae Church in Portland, Oregon. After morning chapel we had a “So What Time” with each of our cabins and went to the first recreation chapel. This year’s camp teams are the “Ahhs” (neon green shirts) and “Ooos (tourquoise shirts).” The camp teams are further divided into 28 sub teams. Because of the size of our church we are on a number of sub teams like: “Aakwards," "Bazoookas," "Ooompalumpas," Fa la la la la, Mother Goooose, Bally Hooooos, to name a few. Today was 4-way games at 4 different locations. We competed in games like “Big Belly Soccer," "The Mud Pit," and the Gauntlet" as each team began the quest for the coveted first place rec. t-shirt. After recreation, was lunch and free time—on the lake, and around camp. A group of 60 took over both the high adventure course times and were challenged by the ropes course through the trees, climbing wall, pampra poles and the 42-foot high screamer. After dinner was the bike jump into the Lake where 4 Saint Matthew students competed. During our evening chapel Chuck shared how God is the same yesterday, today and forever, and to be open this week to hear God speak to us through his word and that we would listen. After chapel we had a Luau complete with a belly flop contest in the pool and Hawaiian shaved iced. PD et al.

Sunday Around Camp

Sunday Night

We had a nice routine bus ride up to Hume Lake. All three buses arrived safely at two-thirty in the afternoon. This year's theme is "The Phantastical Journey of the Wandering Lites" and is based on Exodus 6. The opener was in the chapel with an Arabian Night's Theme of Moses challenging Pharoah to let God's people go. The opener had plenty of singing of "older school songs-Pharoah, Pharoah," "newer school songs-Bye, Bye, Bye" and plenty of dancing. During evening chapel, Rich Baker, Ponderosa's co-camp-director, taught us that the Bible tells us that God is sufficient. That might be easy to believe, but it's a constant challenge to put that belief into action. Even when God's blessings have been marvelously displayed, we still tend to reject or forget it. This struggle is illuminated by the story of the Israelites as they literally followed the visible presence of God out of Egypt, yet still rejected, replaced, and simply forgot God's provision and guidance. All of our students who wanted to, got signed up for Paintball and High Adventure. PD et al.