Every evening at dinner, the compadres present special awards called “Paper Plate Awards”. They reserve this recognition for when they see special actions that encourage everyone. Tonight we had three special Paper Plate Awards. Savannah Harris Savannah won a special “Girls Rock” paper plate award from camp directors, Tyson and Ryan Bacon for carrying a 5 gallon water chug…
The theme for the afternoon Bible Study was choosing strong friends. Danny Elkins taught the boys and had the following thoughts: What makes a strong friend? Here are some characteristics. Someone who will help you be a better person Someone who will tell you what you truly need to hear Someone that will show you love in good times…
Each day during camp, the camp staff awards a special Golden Dustpan Award for the cleanest cabin. Monday’s winners were cabin 4 for the girls and cabin 8 for the boys. Parents, you should start to expect this level of cleanliness at home too because now you know they have it in them!
Campers began the sports events this morning with teams playing volleyball, basketball, soccer and kickball. Each team will get to play each sport twice over the next two days. It’s amazing how exciting these games can be. Most of them all come right down to the wire. Below are some pictures from this morning’s games. (if you don’t see the…
This year we have a new perspective on camp… from the air! These aerial shots give us a new way to view the sports each day. See the video below, and watch for more great footage from our new HD drone.
Morning activities started right after cabin clean-up and one of the many activities campers do here is crafts. Ms. Dayna, our craft director, has some amazing things planned this year. Campers are making yarn art, leather bands, bubble blowing canisters and fortune cookie cuffs and team glitter gel. The kids are loving it!
Each morning at camp the campers gather for a flag pole devotional and then line up for breakfast to sing hymns together. This morning, our flag pole devotion was led by compadre, Devon Boone. His topic was Be Strong – make good friends. He told them the importance of making good friends and the example we have in the…
Camp activities started Sunday night with some great old-time favorite games: Hula-hoop relay, three-legged race, between the leg shuffle, and sack race. Here are the team scores results after Sunday night: 1st Place – Hunter / Orange (tie) 3rd Place – Hot Pink 4th Place – Lime 5th Place – Green 6th Place – Light Blue / Purple (tie) 8th…
On Sunday night, campers began camp by meeting in the amphitheatre to meet their team captains for the week. I’m not sure who gets more excited about camp — the campers or the team captains! Below are pictures of the 10 team captains.
We had a great start to a Jr. Week today. Beautiful weather, great food and best of all, Christian friends. To start the week, we asked some of the campers what is the best thing about MSC Jr. Camp. Here’s what they said.
