Summer Camp 2006

Summer Camp Review

Sunday We arrived late in the evening and it was straight to dinner. The dining hall is awesome, adorned with almost 100 different animals. We had some food and went back to unpack. Later that night we had our first meeting and then off to bed for us.


Monday Monday started as a normal day, breakfast, meeting, small groups, but then it came time for picture time to take the group photo. Well we hit somewhat of a snag, it started raining. So the photo was quickly snapped and we ran for cover in the lunch hall. Due to the rain they had to cancel all lake activities and we were all very very sad. But they opened the pool for night swim (the rain had stopped) and we had a great day still.

Tuesday Monday not only canceled lake time free time but it canceled our first olympic competition. So tuesday we had our first event which was a swim relay. I have to be honest our teams rocked. Teams were decided cabins, so we had a girls team and a guys team and both placed very well. But to be honest, the girls beat the guys time by 2 seconds.




Wednesday Today the competition was the wacky race and boy was it wacky. I was asked to speak at the camp this year and for Wednesday night's meeting I gave a message on Jesus walking on water. In a few weeks, I am going to get the CD of everyone's message and i will upload the messages for those that want a refresher course.




Thursday was Iron man day. It was a gruelling competition, a run, a swim, another run, a rock climb and finally a bike ride. We did sustain one injury, but she was okay in the end. It was a great race, not an Amazing Race... but still it was quality. Thursday we also made up the missed competition from Monday, The water balloon hitter game. The game goes like this, five people behind a water balloon launcher, shooting at five people 100 feet away in a small circle. And can i say the guys owned this event. They scored 7 points, most teams scored 0 and the 2nd place only had like 3 points. This event moved us from last or close to it, to 3rd place.

Friday Friday was sweet for two reasons. It was our last olympic event, the boat race. The rules were simply this, make a boat out of cardboard and ducttape, you cant use any supplies not provided, go. The guys and the girls both had excellent designs and both placed well. But i really enjoyed Friday because of the baptism. 20 students from OHills were baptized and 1 accepeted the Lord. It was a beautiful day.

Summer Camp Photos are here. To be honest the photos are not in order, but they are all there. There is something like 600 photos, so it make take some time to check them all out. We did get photos of everyone that was baptized, so if at first you don't see yourself, keep looking, you are somewhere else. I will also add a write up later, but for now its nap time ZZZzzzzzzzzz
Sleep well everyone

Dreams

I have taken on many projects in my life, different ideas i have had that i thought would be really cool. The expanding batman cape has always been a favorite, a car that starts with a remote control, both things i accomplished and was quite proud of. But there has been one project that i never got passed the design stage. I drew picture after picture, even designed it on the computer, but never reached the manufacturing stage. Probably due to cost and not being able to utilize it. But to my glee today someone has taken my vision and made a production unit of the fish tank toilet. That is correct, a toilet that doubles as a fish tank. Its beautiful, even comes with a special seat cover. If you dont believe me feel free to click the pciture and check out the website. Now be warned, this will set you back $450. But you will have the coolest bathroom on the block. And not to be morbid, but if one of the fishes start to say float to the top and stop playing with the other fishies, then disposal should be quite easy.

Wednesday Night we started the final chapter of James, which will probably be the chapter we focus on the longest. James once again talks about money, and James was very very passionate. James was talking to be who called themselves Christians, but they were using their wealth very poorly. They would make people work for them and not pay the workers, they would owe people money, and instead of paying them back they would just keep it, or they would even bribe judges. James should us that it is not wrong to have money or even to be rich, but that we need to use our money wisely and fairly.

Staff Pages Are Here

Make sure to check out the Staff Pages, they are awesome!

Summer Camp Info

Summer Camp is less than a week away, we are leaving this Sunday. Please make sure to turn in your final paperwork, there is a link to the right to download it. I was quite excited to see the great turnout we had for summer camp, we are taking more than twice the number of people we originally planned for. But don't worry we have ample leadership. In fact many are quite surprised to see how awesome of a team we have here in Amped Ministries. Currently we have 12 leaders who are there on a weekly basis, and to get to know them better I have made staff pages! So click the link or follow the link to the right and get to know your Amped Team Better!

Book of Song Lyrics

From what other people tell me, i have some pretty bad taste in music. And what makes it worse is i can listen to the same songs over and over and over. Just last week i listened to the same 3 songs for 3 hours straight. Each song plays 6 times every hour, so i guess i heard each song at least 18 times. And what is sad, is most people can't listen to the entire song even once. But the reason i like most songs is the lyrics, they say something really cool and they sound so cool how they do it. This is one of the reasons I really like the book of Psalms. It is a collection of all of Israel's favorite music. Spaning over a thousand years this book is one of the largest in the entire Bible, having more chapters than any other book and it is just a giant song book, with different sytles and types of music. And the Psalms are written by different people in different times of thier lives. This past weekend we looked at the first half of psalms, chapters 1-72 and we saw some really cool stuff. We saw that chapter 3 is about King David having to run away from his son cause his son wanted to kill him, we saw in chapter 23 David comparing God to a shepherd and we are His sheep, and finally we peeked at Psalm 51 which is the Psalm David wrote after the biggest mistake he made in his life. I can't wait to finish the book next week.

So next week we will be adding staff pages to the website. It will have photos of each leader from Amped as well as a Bio and things they enjoy in life. Make sure to check it out, cause it will be awesome!

Hamburger Day

Photos are online, click to left to view them. In the end i believe the hamburger was roughly 32 patties and buns tall

Printing Photos

I like Photos. If you look to your right, you will notice lots and lots of links to photos. I have been asked, "As a parent how do i order prints of those photos?" An excellent question, and quite easily answered. To host our photos online we use a service called Flickr. Flickr is a great place to upload photos so anyone can view them. To print photos from Flickr, you first must be a member, but the good news is membership is free. Simply go to their website, www.flickr.com and select "Sign In" then select "Create a new account". Follow thier instructions. Once you have created your membership view any photos from any Amped event. In each of our sets (a set is a group of photos from a specific trip) you will now see an extra option, "Make stuff". You can select anything from the list, making regular old prints, DVDs, posters, even beautiful photo books.