Every year, The Barn Wesley Foundation provides us with the amazing opportunity to experience a connection with God at Timber Creek Camp. We are blessed to enjoy three days at the camp and share a unique, bonding moment with all of our peers from Perkinston and many students from other colleges who also attend the event. I have been able to attend this event twice, and each time has proven to be a wonderful adventure, helping each and every one of us surpass our difficulties and leave our burdens on Christ. The camp is located in Morton, Mississippi, surrounded by a vast, yet calm lake and countless trees. At the camp we stay in large cabins filled with twin bunk-beds and a peaceful atmosphere. This year, I discovered a trail that goes around the whole camp and it was quite fun hiking through it with my friends. Although, before we get to the camp there is a pre-determined schedule to which we must abide. We …show more content…
The camp withholds a deep, meaningful sense to me and inundates my soul in a spiritual atmosphere. The peace I am able to feel at the Camp is unprecedented, and I have come to realize it is due to the perfect combination of nature and God´s presence. From the very first minute we get there and are able to witness the alluring sight, we are able to feel peace and an overwhelming feeling of joy. These sensations intensify during worship at the chapel, supported by the psalms sung by everyone in the crowd. When I worship God, I praise him for all the good he has done in my life. I also ask Him for wisdom and a clear perspective so I can see how I should live my life. It is unbelievable how I can actually feel his presence in that place, and how He embraces me when I need it the most. The camp is also a great opportunity for some students to give their life to Christ, or if they have wandered off his presence, they are able to reconnect once
As a coaching staff, we would like to thank all who participated in Bobcat Camp this last week. In preparation for this upcoming season we felt the camp was a great springboard to building team discipline and camaraderie.
Hume Lake is a Christian camp located in California and serves an important function and mission in the lives of their campers. This organization is specifically located in the Sierra Nevada, near Fresno county, in central California. Surrounded by a reservoir, Hume Lake allows their campers to feel connected in community as they spend time doing different outdoor activities such as playing football or jumping into the lake. This ties directly back to Hume’s function, which is to provide an exciting and engaging environment for campers through different outdoor and indoor activities alike that will allow them to grow in their relationships with one another. However, this is Hume’s function from a
The Log Cabin Republicans is an organization that helps build a more stronger union of equality, free market, individual liberty and many more . They have chosen to start this party for the sole purpose of helping to stop the intolerance towards gays and lesbians. The name Log Cabin came from President Abraham Lincoln who was born in a log cabin, so they chose to name it after him. Not only was he the inspiration for the name he was also an inspiration for the faction. The original name of the faction was “Lincoln Club” but the name was already taken by another Republican (GOP) group so they had to change it to something else. The faction was built on Abraham Lincoln's principles of Liberty and Equality.
I have been fortunate enough to share this experience with many of my childhood friends. “Holston Presbytery Camp serves as a bridge between the earth and heaven. It’s the one place where you can
“Honoring the fallen by helping the wounded.” This is Camp Hope’s motto. Can you image what soldiers go through? Soldiers risk their lives to keep us safe. How can we repay them? I believe one way that we could repay them is through Camp Hope.
Camp Ketcha offers a unique environment for preschoolers to play. At their nature-based preschool, not only do they play inside with the typical toys for the little tikes, they use the outdoors to entertain their students for hours. Usually, when someone thinks of children's toys, legos, barbies, and toy race cars come to mind. But at Camp Ketcha, the children typically are more entertained by horses, gourds, and apple trees.
Holocaust survivors after the war, were not completely done with the suffering. Most lost their homes, belongings, and family to the germans. So when they were released from the camps exhausted and confused, what did they do? Well, most of them moved away or tried to return to their homes. Anywhere they could go to escape the germans, they went. Even after the war was over, anti-semitism still lingered in europe. Despite being mass-liberated, there continued to be violent protests and threats towards jews.
At Eastbay camp, the children of the United Methodist Church join together with the children of The Baby Fold. They form bonds that touch hearts and inspire friendships. The camp experience is tailored to meet the individual needs of each child. After all, God
For the duration of a summer, I spent my time living and working on a remote mountaintop in Pennsylvania. As a Counselor at Outdoor Odyssey Leadership Academy, I had the responsibility of mentoring youth through personal growth and development. We took pride in being a different kind of summer camp. At Outdoor Odyssey, participants’ mental and physical comfort zones would be pushed. The common rhetoric was that we did not sit around “painting rocks and singing Kumbaya” like all other summer camps. Such mentalities were driven into us by the Director of Operations during our two-week intensive staff boot camp.
Where did you learn to play basketball, play defense and offense, or be part of a team? There’s a good chance it was at camp, right? We know that camp is not just a place for kids to spend a fun summer, but an excellent setting in which kids can learn life skills that they will rely on long after the camp experience has passed.
Camp Ozark and its partner youth group, Ozone helped me in high school to develop my relationship with The Lord and my purpose to serve Him. The leaders and counselors that I knew encouraged me and guided me as I got to know Jesus. They are one of my biggest influences in wanting to do ministry in college and after. My relationship with my dad was something that hindered my self-perception and my relationship with Jesus. We had a tough relationship, as he fought a lot with my mom and also dealt with depression. I had a hard time understanding God as a perfect father, but over time I have come to learn what it means to have a perfect Heavenly Father, one that loves me unconditionally and rejoices in me. I have always had high expectations for
One camper in particular that made an impact on me was Kylie, a 7 year old girl with cancer. On the first night of the week, I sat down on her bed to get to know her and we ended up looking at a Where is Waldo
Camp Chanco is where I get to spend two weeks of the summer being a part of a team who is passionate about making camp awesome, like it was for us when we were campers ourselves. When I became a counselor in training, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The title of the job sounds straightforward but it was more than teaching songs, making friendship bracelets, and finding “peanut butter plants”. I ended up, along with others, creating new pathways, organizing mail and money, transporting supplies, and preparing the evening programs. The days were long and tiring, but we worked the absolute best we could.
What if your school visited two different camps, you liked both of them, but you had to make a choice? What would you do? Well, the camps that I experienced were Earthshine and Camp Timber Lake. Every year all of Key Middle School goes on an overnight to one of these camps. Both camps were very enjoyable. At one of them, I did zip lining, and at the other we did rock climbing. Over all I thought Earthshine was much more exciting than Timberlake.
Last summer I volunteered to be a camp counselor at a camp in Blowing Rock, North Carolina called Camp Sonshine. This camp is different from others in that they bring children ages 5 to 18 from inner city Memphis, Tennessee to the Appalachian Mountains. This