During the morning, campers rotated between Bible class, crafts, and disc golf. The 6-hole disc golf course spanned across both the upper and lower sports fields and gave the campers a serious workout. Each team competed in its three age groups. The event was scored based on the number of strokes and the total time to complete the course….
Videographer Kevin Colvin continued our daily theme of “God Fits My Tolerance” as he taught each group of campers this morning. He began by asking: What is tolerance? Tolerate (verb) is to accept the feelings, behavior, or beliefs of someone. Tolerance (noun) is the willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own; sympathy or…
This morning kitchen staff member Andy Harrison led our thoughts around the flagpole and introduced us to today’s theme: God Fits My Tolerance. To tolerate is to endure; to bear one another. God’s definition of tolerance is not always the same as society’s definition of tolerance. A standard is a bar to compare ourselves to, and God’s standard is…
Before retiring for the evening, we’d like to reflect on Day 2 of MSC Sr. Week. Although we got some rain overnight last night, as the day progressed, we heard more news from the Indianapolis area of severe storms, wind damage, and power outages, but we were very fortunate at Shakamak to have missed the storms. We had a…
For our Tuesday evening worship service, Neil Tremblett, who works with the congregation at Greenwood, came and spoke to us about how our relationship with God matters because time is short (I Corinthians 7:29-31, 26). It is a solemn thought of how short time really is (I Corinthians 7:29). The brevity of life is emphasized in Psalm 90:10 where we…
This afternoon, campers retired their softball gloves for their kickball shoes as they hit the ball diamond on the lower sports field. Kickball sounds easy enough, until the second of two innings where kickers were forced to run the bases in the opposite direction. Needless to say, it was an entertaining challenge to spectators. And the scores are: Navy —…
All teams played their final three matches of volleyball on this beautiful Tuesday afternoon. Today’s scoreboard reads as follows: Hunter– 21, 21, 21 & Gold– 15, 10, 19 Purple– 8, 24, 16 & Silver– 21, 22, 21 Blue– 21, 18, 12 & Orange– 19, 21, 21 Lime– 21, 21, 21 & Green– 16, 18, 15 Red– 14, 17, 10 & Navy — 21, 21, 21