At last – an update!
In the busy time of preparing and doing camps, we seem to have forgotten to update the blog……again!
The camps were great! Week one of Hungarton went very smoothly. We were taking the morning sessions, and Steve was helping with the music in the evening sessions too. Kay was also doing her usual health and safety role as well as being nurse and dishing out the daily medications and bandaging up our very few injured campers.
For the morning meetings, we were looking at the Hebrew names of God. The meetings were lively and fun with a hands on application at the end to help the children to put into action something of what they had learnt.
On week two, we had very different roles – and were there to serve the rest of the team. Kay was once again the nurse and was kept busy with a few rope swing accidents, but was also the technical person running the sound and audio visual desks, and one of the photographers for the week.
Steve was kept busy in lots of ways, and eventually led the worship in the evening meetings.
The picture is of our home for the two weeks of Hungarton camp……. (Later I’ll put a slide show of some of the photos we’re allowed to put on line from camp…..)
From Hungarton we went down to the Children’s camp at Dalesdown, not to lead, but just to be an encouragement to the team. It was a brilliant camp – and Steve got to dress up as a gorilla to collect a ransom for a kidnapped leader of camp! It was great to catch up with campers that we have built a good relationship with over the years and to see how much they have grown in many areas of their lives. Steve also led a guitar teaching session for the campers during one of their rotational activity afternoons. Many thanks to the lovely Sarah Covington for leading the camp, and to the other amazing leaders who worked so hard over all three weeks.
This was the third week of the camps there – all of which appear to have been a success (Especially judging by the facebook entries of the campers – who were all very enthusiastic!!) Many thanks to Carl Smith and Nigel Thomas for leading Teens plus – their last year for leading this camp. Ellie and Luke will be taking over for next year. Also Thanks to Paul Davis and Jo Sharp for leading the teens week – hard work but worth it!