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. Of course, at August Camp the “slower” pace just means a jam packed day of fun!

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. About 400 girls showed up on a crisp sunny morning to run or walk three miles before breakfast beside the placid waters of Lake Edith. We play music, stretch out, and encourage each other in our training. It really is fun and the girls LOVE getting the prize (a really nice t-shirt in the Greystone Stumblers theme).

Breakfast is 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, David Speakman, 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 possible. We know each other very well by now, the love of Jesus has been experienced in the way we relate to each other for day after day. We have laughed, cried, played, and prayed together in a way that binds us together strongly.

This unity finds its best expression in worship, so we celebrate worship at Greystone and hope that the girls get a taste of the joy that God intends us to have in this world and the next.

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. I will miss camp church next week!

After church we will enjoy a big lunch (lasagna and ice cream sundays), take a long nap, then comes Challenge Day! The odds and the evens will enjoy good natured competition as cabin groups do lots of fun relay races and fun games all afternoon. We top the day off with a big picnic, then comes the icing on the cake: a really fun Movie Night EP.

This next week will be a fast paced, well orchestrated, giant exclamation point on a wonderful summer. We can’t wait!

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