Let me just briefly describe to you one typical day of orientation at Camp Geneva. Wake up between 7:00 and 7:30 AM. Devotions are at 8 AM followed by breakfast at 8:30. The focus of our devotions have been on Peter’s life. About 9:30 AM we head back down to the Celebration center where we have a few lectures covering every aspect of camp. Lunch is at noon. After we finish eating we have TAWG, which is Time Alone With God. About 1:30 in the afternoon we break up into our areas, so I went with the rest of the day camp counselors and we planned songs and skits, bible studies, and went over activities that we do on that day with our campers. We also spent time working cleaning out the trailer and shed and just general organization of our area of camp. Then we meet back up and perform a skit for everyone and they perform their skits for us. Sometimes after that we get free time until dinner at 5:30 PM. After dinner we have more talks down in the celebration center. Then we head to the Chapel for worship and personal testimonies. Everyone has to give one and we generally try to keep it to the last couple years. Then about 11 we circle up and sing one song acapella. Then we give and receive hugs, find our prayer partner for the night and head to a quiet spot on camp to pray with and for each other. It is an awesome experience. Usually you get done between 11:30 and 12 AM (well you have to be done by midnight because that’s when curfew is). You really don’t mind thought because by that time your body is begging for sleep. Then you repeat the next day and the next for 10 days. I am so exhausted, but its a good kind I guess.
I love our staff. I truly do, we are so open with each other and we have, in the last 10 days, become a family of brothers and sisters. I must confess that I am still attached to last years staff and I am having a difficult time adjusting to this new summer, but its not that I wish this staff was last years staff. It’s that last year there were people on staff that are not back this year that really helped me shape my faith. This years staff is wonderful and so on fire for the LORD and I feel so guilty to comparing them with last year’s staff. I have been talking to a few returners who are serving their 3rd or 4th summer here and they have been so encouraging saying that they went through it too on their 2nd summer. I am fearful of letting this come between me and them. As I said earlier I love how close we are, but we are so chatty and sometimes it gets to the point that I just wish I could have alone time. I’m sure God is using this situation to show me a different side of myself, but I needed to be honest and admit that this is something that I am struggling with.
Another big struggle right now is I feel that my focus is being pulled from camp. With trying to get everything done for the World Race my focus is being pulled in every direction. Then there is my dad who injured himself at work and Grandpa John who is not doing well with his lung cancer. I feel like I should be home and helping in anyway I can, but I know God has called me to camp and its where I am supposed to be. One more thing that tugs at my focus is Joshua, who is serving in Afghanistan. I miss him terribly and I find myself worrying about him. So my prayers have been that God would keep my focus here at Camp and to help me connect with this staff like I did with last years staff.
