Sundays and Stumblers

Last night’s EP (Protect your Counselor) was a huge hit. I don’t think I can convey how much the campers LOVED this crazy mash up of a “Color Run”, team building seminar, and dance party. The girls were completely engaged as they went from station to station protecting their counselor from the “hazards” in each place. As the sun sank below the horizon we threw the last of our “color” (corn starch that is brightly colored) into the air and got pictures taken with our friends. These pictures will be favorites of the girls when they go home. It is a memory that will be enjoyed for a lifetime. A great ending to a great week… and we are glad that today is Sunday (everyone is a bit tired).

Sundays should be different… the Bible tells us that God made the earth in 6 days and rested on the seventh. He called that the Sabbath and gave it as a blessing to all mankind. 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, run or walk, talk and encourage each other. It really is fun and the girls look forward to the time. Next week we will hand out our prize (a cool t-shirt in the Greystone Stumblers theme) to all who ran both Sundays.

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. We have laughed, cried, played, and prayed together in a way that binds us in Spirit.

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. This year we continue our new format of our worship time, adding more music (the girls love singing together) and letting them leave their offering slips at the door as they leave. Our goal is to make the time genuinely glorifying and we expect it to be a blessing.

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 Council Fire to close out a wonderful day.

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