Closing ceremonies

I apologize for such a short post earlier, my time and internet service was limited and so was my blogging ability. The closing ceremony deserves so much more than what I mentioned in that short post earlier in the day, hence I would like to devote more time to this post so that I can include all of the…

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And the first place winners are…

So as to not leave anyone in the dark, I’m going to post just a quick update of the winners of 2012 MSC Jr. Week, then I’ll post a more in-depth blog later. Congratulations to team Royal Blue, led by David and Sonja McPherson, for winning first place this year!

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Last day

Sadly, today is the day in which we go home. We woke up this morning, showered, then ate our last meal here at MSC Jr. Week. After that, all of our teams divided up and began cleaning up the campground, and as that’s brought to a close, we’re preparing for the closing ceremony.  Which team do you think is…

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Pillow fight championship of the world!

Tonight has been, by far, the most exciting night of camp, the night of the pillow fight championship of the world. We had 36 rounds of pure adrenaline leading up the to final match between Cooper Barr and Caleb Cirksena. But before we discuss the final match we must talk about the belching contest. On stage we had a…

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Carnival

Today after the obstacle course, our campers all ate sack lunches while staff set up for the carnival in the lower sports field. We had various games set up and when campers won a game, they received tickets that they could then use on some attraction, whether that be the wrecking ball, giant water slide, or human bowling. As…

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Tuesday girls study and Tuesday night worship

Sorry, but I realize that I’m a day late in posting this blog. For clarification before I begin, I just want to point out that I was not in the girls’ study yesterday–all my information comes from notes. Yesterday afternoon our female campers were led in a Bible study by Silver team captain Carrie Elkins. The study continued to…

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Wednesday dinner

I don’t mean to sound redundant, but our cooks are really amazing. All of our campers enjoyed a delicious Mexican fiesta of tacos for dinner. Here’s a picture of the spread on one of the tables:

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Camp logo

As we do every year, we had a contest for our campers to design our logo for us. Whichever camper has the winning logo gets to come to camp for free. This year’s contest winner was Abigail Mitchell. Here’s a picture of Julia Casey wearing the shirt Abigail designed.

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Jr. Olympics!

Anyone who has ever been to camp before knows the excitement that comes with Jr. Olympics. What I want to accomplish in this blog post is to go over all the events our campers participated in this morning and give you a run down of the obstacle course. We started out the morning with a 40-yard, then 80-yard dash….

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Other staff

Here at MSC, we strive to make sure that credit is given where credit is due, so we want to make sure that we don’t leave anyone out. Here’s a list of all the staff members we haven’t already mentioned and what they do. In our nursing staff, we have Ellen Hunter and Debbie Eaton, and they do an…

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