Smooth Sailing

The morning started with campers showing off their cabin pride. Cabin Pride breakfast featured cabins adorning face paint with their cabin numbers clearly displayed. Some wore Red, White and Blue to demonstrate their pride in their country. Finally, some dressed up as lions and came as a literal pride. Like breakfast, the days activities were action packed. Bible study had the kids, reading, thinking and laughing. Schleef encounters had one group drawing hillarious pictures and another running through the woods hunting and being hunted. The boy rock climbers go to do their thing and went to Devil's Lake to spend the day rock climbing. Kids played crazy games at outdoor sports and disc golfed. Soccer specialty played a crazy soccer game inside the Bula Ball ring and baking specialty filled up on Lemon Bars and home made ice cream. At the ropes course kids jumped off the leap of faith with the coolest adventure coordinator in the world, Justin Heise.

For the evening game, the evil Sector X came to camp and spread a mutation infection to the staff. Doctor Adam and Doctor Jason came in with a plan to have the campers find Sector X and cure him of the infection inside the Decontamination Station. Some campers seemed to enjoy being infected though and set out to infect the rest of camp. The game ended as serum that looked like water from the hose poured onto Sector X, the staff and pretty much the whole camp. Then at campfire Grandpa Joe and Grandma Molly went to Smooth Sailing retirement home and dealt with the crazy antics of Harold, Richard Nixon and the other people at the center.

Romans 8:5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

For password, Clare let us into the mind of Adam as he struggled with what to do about a new neighbor. The good side of Adam that looked like Ben wanted to greet the neighbor and invite him to church. The evil side of Adam, that looked like Jason, wanted to steal the man's Ipad and then use it to take over the world. Clare used the funny skit to talk about how we struggle with sins and choices and as Christians we need to focus on the Spirit. Devotion leader Jim had the kids think about what their actions say about them and that as we are motivated by Christ we should focus on building others up.