Breakfast Club for Back to School
Even though your days are no longer defined by bugles and blobs, there’s still something so exciting about a new school year! Fresh pencils, new teachers, and cooler weather - as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
And with all that newness comes a myriad of opportunities to grow in the 4 Fold Way. You may not have Jimboy and his 20 minute jokes around, but you can still take that Breakfast Club mindset with you this school year. Read on to see how you can bring a bit of the bubble to your first semester… and get a few Jimboy jokes at the end!
Spiritual
- Rock out to Morning Assembly songs on your way to school in the morning. Extra points if you teach your family the motions!
- Get involved in your church, Young Life, or a Bible study. Help with the nursery, go to Youth Group, or just start attending regularly.
- Send Bible verses you love to your cabin group text, and ask for prayer requests too. You may not be able to hear your counselor’s devotions every night, but you can still encourage each other!
- Make reading the Bible a part of your daily routine. Not sure where to start? Our Daily Devotions include scripture and wisdom from your favorite counselors and camp ministers!
Social
- Challenge yourself to meet a new person every day. It’s easy to get caught in a rut of only hanging out with your best friends, but look around your school - there are so many new people you haven’t met yet! Remember the first place to start? Smile!
- Make a phone date with a camp friend once a week. Texting is great, but nothing is quite the same as hearing her voice. Facetime works too!
- Ask your school friends good questions. Now is a great chance to pull out those crazy ice breaker questions you learned at camp! You’ll be surprised by what you learn when you dig a little deeper.
- Put down your phones when you’re with your friends. You know how camp friendships get so deep, so fast? By going tech-free! You don’t have to lose the phone completely, but make a pact with your friends to not look at your screens when you’re together.
Mental
- Challenge yourself to learn something new every day. Whether you get it from a teacher, or just googling random facts, it’s all mental growth. Make sure to store up the craziest fun facts to tell Jimboy next summer!
- Look at a book instead of your phone. We know, we know, we’re broken records. But what if you looked at a book instead of your phone right before you went to sleep? Make like Sarah Brown and read, read, read this year!
- Claim the day each morning. “It’s a great day and I feel terrific” isn’t just for camp. Be a light in your school by making each day a great one.
- Set goals for yourself, even small ones. Do you want to be a part of the school play? Be a starter on your basketball team? Make all A’s? Learn a Bible verse every week? Make new friends? Set goals, and tell people about them.
Physical
- Choose to see your body for what it can do. Resist the urge to talk down about yourself when you’re with your friends. Focus instead on how grateful you are for the body God gave you, and for all that it can accomplish!
- Move a little bit every day. Whether it’s a sport practice or just a walk around the block with your dog, you’ll feel so much better if you keep moving, just like when you’re at camp.
- Try something new. Push yourself to get out of your comfort zone. Try out for that team. Take that elective. If you’re interested in something, go for it, even if it isn’t normally your “thing.”
- Eat an apple a day! They say it keeps the doctor away, and we don’t know about that, but we do know it makes you feel great at camp, so incorporate it into school. When 11:10 rolls around, pop it out of your bag. Who needs the cart??
Time for a short story?
- What would bears be without bees? Ears
- What do you call a shoe made out of a banana? A slipper.
- Why do cows wear bells? Because their horns don’t work.
- Why did the stadium get hot after the game? All the fans left.