Stumblers

Last night’s team fires elected Martha Grace Dixon and Weezie Targgart as Captain and Lieutenant of the Odds. Virginia Miller and Carson Staples were elected Captain and Lieutenant of the Evens. Tentalow Upper 9 presented the winning mascot for the Odds (Jimmy the Dragon) and Tentalow Lower 12 presented the winning mascot for the Evens (The Lions). Congratulations to all the girls who were honored in the elections, we hope the team competitions this week will be spectacular as always!

Well, Sunday (the day of rest) is here and we are glad!

It has been a very active week, our “work” has been fun but we are ready for a change of pace. To have a day that is deliberately slower paced is a delight to us all.

Anyone who does not want to sleep in gathers at the track for a running club (Greystone Stumblers) at 8:00. You would think such a club would not be popular, but you would be mistaken. At least 300 girls showed up on a glorious sunny morning to run or walk three miles before breakfast at 9:00. We play music, stretch out, and encourage each other in our training. It really is fun and the girls look forward to the time. This is the 32nd anniversary of the Greystone Stumblers, a tradition started by my father (who got the idea from a running club in Lexington Kentucky called “The Todds Road Stumblers”).

Breakfast will be a light buffet of muffins, fruit, cereal, and juice. We then clean up the cabins, get showered up and dressed in our Sunday finest for Sunday School and Church. Our traditional Sunday worship time is led by our minister and we look forward to it. Church is a place with deeply connected people gathered together to worship God, by that definition Greystone is one of the best churches I have ever attended. We know each other very well by now, the love of Jesus has been experienced in the way we relate to each other with the Fruit of the Spirit. Our minister this year is Jonathan Davis, check out his Devotion Talks when you have a chance. They are great!

My Great Grandfather was a minister, so he built a high view of worship into the camp tradition and we continue it to this day. Not out a sense of just “doing the same thing” but out of a sense of excellence. We find Sundays to be hugely restorative and good for the “feel” of camp.

After church we will enjoy a big “Sunday Dinner”, take a long nap, then have free activities all afternoon. Tonight we will have our first concert of the summer, I am not at liberty to announce who it is so stay tuned!

Thank you for checking in. Hope you have a Great Day!