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
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