Week One Of Teen Camp
Well here I am at Camp Good News, and I thought I'd take a few minutes to say hi to anyone who might be reading this. I'm staying in a trailer on the teen side of the camp, and since the trailer has a phone line, and megalink has a dialup number that's local to East Livermore, I can be online as much as I need to be without any problem.But...I really don't have much time to be online! When I got to camp yesterday, John told me that they really wanted me to spend most of my time with the teens, rather than the children (which was fine for me...the teen camp was what I was really hoping to do anyway!
). But the teen camp is a little short on staff this week, and the program directors are serving double duty as counselors in the cabins, so I'm trying to spend as much time as possible with the campers, just to help out.Of course, I have to balance that with preparing my messages; they told me that I would have about forty minutes in the morning and forty minutes in the evening with the teens, but it turns out that I've got a half hour in the evening, but an entire hour in the morning. This is turning out to be a good thing. In the evenings the place is filled with mosquitos, and it's really hard to keep the teens' attention. They're much more alert and attentive in the morning. So I'm glad I've got more time in the morning and less in the evening; unfortunately it means going back and rethinking all my messages, changing the order of them some, and rearranging how I divide up the Book of James for the study.
So, yeah, I don't have a whole lot of free time.
I feel a bit like Goldilocks this week; the trailer that I'm in (and have all to myself) actually has three beds. The first bed I tried was too hard (of course, if that had been all there was for a bed, I would have survived just fine). So I tried the second bed. That bed was too soft (actually, the softness wasn't the problem so much as the sagging in the middle).
But the third bed I tried was just right.
Hopefully I'll sleep well tonight. I was sure glad for "nap time" ("Stop and Drop", they call it at the teen camp) today...I really needed to snooze for a few minutes.There's a cat that belongs with this trailer I'm in, and I have the choice of letting it in at night or not...last night I did, and the silly thing kept me awake pacing up and down the length of my bed. Up and down, up and down. Foolish creature.
At least this cat doesn't lick my eyebrows!
Posted On Jul 4, 2005 at 11:57 AM
On Jul 5, 2005 Doug wrote: Had a good day yesterday, got to know the campers a lot better. At meal time eating with a different cabin each meal, so that helps me get to know them a little better. I found out that one of the girls goes to my Aunt Phyllis' church, and that Aunt Phyllis is her Sunday School teacher.
The teens were better last night about paying attention in spite of the mosquitos. And I taught a lesson on human nature, using the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding as my launching point. If you've ever read Lord of the Flies, while it is a very unpleasant book to read, it does give a very Biblical view of human nature!
On Jul 5, 2005 Preacher wrote: That's funny, the camp that I am at prefers that I use the Bible. :o)
Doug Replied: really? What a weird camp!
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