We awoke this morning to a camp fresh and clean from last night's summer rain. Following breakfast, our morning chapel was an extended worship time through music. Afterwards we met with our lead counselors for some quiet time followed with a devotional on "How Does Jesus Affect The Way You Live." Tuesday’s rec. time was Hume's flagship game, Kajabe, at 7 different cans on the upper lawn. There were plenty of activities during free time including: a volleyball tournament, a 101 seminar on “Putting Your Trust in God,” swimming, boating, disc golf and playing cards on the Hume-N-Beans deck. After dinner was the counselor Gauntlet (similar to TV's "Wipeout") where Whiley Smith, from Saint Matthew, ably represented her rec. team, Tommy Gunns. At Tuesday’s evening chapel, PJ taught that it wasn't what Jesus did that was such a big deal but what he said...like Jesus' "I am" statements from John's Gospel. Tuesday evening’s free time included a worship concert with "Four All Season," grabbing a late night snack at one of the food venues, playing volleyball or just hanging out, meeting and talking with new friends.
~PD, et al
Saint Matthew HSM
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Monday Night
This morning the wake up bell began our full first day here at Hume Lake. After breakfast we traveled to Ponderosa Chapel for our first morning chapel and spent some time in worship through music with this year's worship band "For All Seasons" (Formerly "Reveal" who were at MS Hume last year.) After worship, we were introduced to this year’s speaker, PJ Lewis, one of the pastors at the Well Community Church in Fresno. After morning chapel we had our “So What Time” with each of our cabins and went to the first recreation chapel. This year’s camp teams are the “Cops” (dark grey shirts) and “Robbers" (light grey shirts).” The camp teams are further divided into 28 sub teams. Sone of the sub teams our students are on are: “Hans Kuff", "Randy Licenplate", "Pic D. Locke", to name a few. Today was 4-way games at 4 different locations. The upper upper lawn, upper lawn, pool & lower lawn 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 32 suited up in their paintball gear for paintball in the trees. After dinner was the bike jump into the Lake where Jordan Drew from Saint Matthew led the pack of jumpers from each of the 28 sub-teams. During our evening chapel PJ built off this mornings message about who Jesus is. Jesus is totally God (John 1 and totally human (Hebrews2). After chapel we had a Luau at the pool with a belly flop contest and Hawaiian shaved iced.
~PD et al.
~PD et al.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Sunday Night
We had a mostly uneventful journey up to Hume Lake. With the warm temperature, the bus overheated and arrived 1 1/2 hours after the other two vehicles. By 5 pm all three vehicles were safely up at camp. This year's theme is Who is Phoenix Dark? Everyone has an opinion, but what are the facts? In a story shadowed with mystery and intrigue, a man is asked to uncover the truth about who Phoenix Dark really is before the clock runs out. This week we'll be exploring the same question that Jesus asked his disciples in Matthew 16:15 - “But what about you?” He asked. “Who do you say I am?” The opener was in the chapel with a 1930's Cops and Robbers Theme set in Mercury City (aka New York). There was singing, dancing, tommy guns and cops and robbers galore. During evening chapel, Rich Baker, Ponderosa's co-camp-director, focus on this weeks theme verse and asked the question: Do you know things about Jesus or do you know Jesus and trust him with your life? All of our students who wanted to, got signed up for Paintball and High Adventure.
~PD et al.
~PD et al.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
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