Our Last Night!!

Wow! What an awesome time we've had today! (Well, I guess since I'm posting this after midnight it's technically yesterday!) Can't believe camp's almost over!

This afternoon we had our own Amazing Race! Ever seen the show?? We basically recreated it JSM-style with 9 cool stations for the teams to complete...The teams all had a different order in which they had to travel to the stations but everyone's last clue led them all to the final task where it was a race to the end!























Our night game tonight was a ton of fun! Totally NOT biblical, but each team had an envelope of sins that they had to "buy" forgiveness for...In order to earn enough money to buy redemption tickets from the monk the teams could take on a task issued by the foremen, play a game of luck with the lucky jokers or buy goods from the traveling salesmen to sell to the towns for a profit. The students worked together fabulously in their teams! It was so fun to see all their different strategies!

And now you may wonder why these girls on the front row are covered with plastic...



Probably because this is a dangerous place to be sitting during tonight's icebreaker! There's no way we could get through a whole camp without a nasty food game!! One student from each team was chosen...Their mission? They had one can each of baked beans, vienna sausages, potted meat & sadines...On the line was 200,000 points for your team if you could down it all!! The lineup - 9 guys and 1 girl...Go Jordie!! You rock!!















And again...Words just can't express the atmosphere in that room during our sessions...Worship was just mind-blowing...Every time! To see these students responding and making life-changing decisions is just awesome. The rest of it's fun and all, but THIS is really what it all comes down to...



Signing off for the final time...Winter Camp 2010 was amazing...Game on!!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Good morning all!! We've survived another night here at Camp Jackson! I'm sure some of y'all are starting to miss your kids, but I hate to tell you that I haven't come across any cases of home-sickness here! We're having a blast!

Last night we played this crazy game where 12 of the leaders were assigned a number 1-12 and the teams had to go around and find the leaders in the correct order to have their cards signed off on... The catch was that if you were asked if you're number 1 but you weren't you couldn't tell them which number you really were...So the students go around back and forth all over the camp trying to figure which leaders are what numbers. (And not to mention we had another 15 leaders wandering around with no numbers...Just being decoys...But the students had no idea who was who!) Honestly, from a leader a perspective it was hilarious!! We had these kids literally RUNNING from one side of the camp to the other! Haha! Hope they had fun too! It worked to our advantage too though b/c come time to head to the cabins and the students were all in their beds with the lights off before the leaders even got in!!

So here we are this morning...To kick off our session and keep with the spirit of the day we had one guy from each team go outside and come up with their best pickup line to use on two of our leaders. The guys came in one by one with the instructions to give us their line and sit down between the ladies while putting his arms around them...The problem?? Unbeknownst to the guys, there wasn't actually a chair under the sheet between the ladies so when they went to sit down they found themselves hitting the floor! Ouch!













(Disclaimer: No guys were harmed in the playing of this little joke! - Well, except for maybe their egos!!)

Next we started off our day with some awesome worship! Experiencing worship in a room filled with 83 students is an amazing experience...We are truly raising up a generation that's not ashamed to raise their hands and praise our God through music!





It's gonna be a fun afternoon! Keep us in your prayers though...We're getting to the point where weariness starts to set in! Catch ya later!!

Saturday Night Update!

Hey guys! Just giving you a quick update from Camp Jackson!!

We had a great afternoon here playing team competition games...We had Noodle Hockey, 4 on 4 Basketball, Flag Tag, Darts & Kickball...All made a bit more interesting in the snow/slush/mud! All our teams were super competitive and full of team spirit! Even the yellow team who didn't have any wins on their scorecard!





















Tonight, to kick off our session we had the Baby Bottle Challenge! Ten lovely ladies raced to drink a Dr. Pepper out of a baby bottle and then get a solid burp out! Go Kelcee!! First place for the purple team!!







And check out our special guest guitarist for worship tonight...Our very own Michael Clifton!



Oh, wait! Michael can't really play the guitar!! Better get John back up there for the real deal!!





Well I'm out for now...Off to our night game and then a bonfire!!

Good Morning from Winter Camp!!

Hello hello!! Hope all is well back home! We're all good here! Sorry it's taken us a while to get our internet up...But all things considered, I think we're all just thankful we had power and heat through the night!!

Wow! This was one crazy snowstorm we had come through! Made the bus ride a little long yesterday, but we made it here...(Or at least as close to "here" as the busses could get us! They couldn't come down the dirt road so we had to have the leaders with cars shuttle all the students then all their luggage down the 2 mile dirt/snow/slush road! It was crazy! Took well over two hours!)

So yeah, wanna learn how to be flexible and go with the flow?? Come to Winter Camp in the middle of a southern blizzard!

Well, we all got here, had some pizza and then the teams all got together to make team flags for the weekend...









At our first session we got to meet each of our teams...

The 8 Ballers


Yellow Snow


Viva la Verde


Red Pirates


Grey Wolf


The Blue Crew


Chocolate Thunder


Pink 182


OJ


Purple Panthers


Our first session was great! We're so blessed to have an awesome band leading us in worship and our speaker, Chris Lotz, bringing us messages directly from God's Word!







We had a game we were gonna play outside late last night, but in light of recent events we decided it would be more appropriate just to play in the much anticipated snow!!









It was a pretty late night getting started and even later when we started winding down so we decided it would be fun to let everyone sleep in this morning and have breakfast at 9:30...So if everyone cheered last night when we announced it, why in the world did they all insist on getting at 7:00 this morning!?!? Craziness!!

So this morning we had a fabulous breakfast burritos, headed out for our quiet time and then met up all together for our second session...

Ready for a little team challenge action?? We call this one "Fish Face" - One guy and one girl from each team partnered up for this one...The girls stood behind the guys, spread peanut butter all over the guys' faces and then attempted to stick as many goldfish crackers on their faces...Yeah, I don't really care to smell peanut butter for a while now!










Out for the afternoon!! Catch ya tonight if the internet holds up!!