Day One
Here we go. Day one started rather early for us, well, early at least for someone who is a recent college graduate 😉 The kids arrived not too much later and they were so excited to be at camp!!!!!! I don't know if I have ever seen so many super-hyper kids before in my life! They went to orientation, where we did part of the first Bible study. I helped lead Bible studies if you hadn't caught on yet 🙂
The first "Identity" question that was asked, "Who Am I?" All of the Scripture used in this one came from Genesis. There we showed the kids that we were created to be like God, holy, righteous and without sin. Eden had no sin until the Fall.
We had the kids split into groups and make a poster. The top half had a spot for their identity. There, they put there name, age, where they're from, things they like, etc. Basically everything the world says makes up your identity. On the bottom half, they used cut out pieces of paper to create Eden and what the world was created to be like.
We then read chapter 3 of Genesis and every time there was a bad decision in vv 1-13, they glued a black paper hand on top of their version of Eden. This was to show that sin ruined what God had design in the beginning and that there is no way to get that original design back. We closed with reading 2 Corinthians 5:17, "If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, old things are passed away, behold, all things have become new!" (NKJV) We ended with this to show that there is hope to come because God can change us.
Later on, I had to go lead my Track, which was birdhouse building. I don't really know how I got that, but it worked out fine because I can hammer pieces of pre-cut wood together and make a birdhouse, its not that complicated 🙂 This was where I really began to see that I could work with kids. I never had before really worked with kids and now I was teaching and showing them how to build a birdhouse! It actually went really well and I started to have that spark flicker in me for these kids.
Worship that night summed up all that we talked about in the Bible study and expounded on it. There was a place in our journals for a "birth certificate" showing our physical birth and another one for our spiritual birth. This was the best way anyone could ever think to show the difference between the two to these kids. During the service we answered the question we had been asking all day, "Who Am I?" The answer to that is "Reborn."
After the worship service, we had Late Night. Tonight was the "Mystery Quest." The campers had to go around to 10 different stations and solve a puzzle of some sort and figure out a clue word from the task they had to do. It was a lot of fun, but it was a LATE NIGHT! Thus ended day one of OneWay Camp 2011.
I should have said this in the previous blog, but I forgot to mention it. All of this happened because of two very special people. They are special to me in ways I can't express. They are Bro. Andrew and Mrs. Tracy Orr. Bro. Andrew is the children's minister at Philadelphia Baptist Church and they have such a huge heart for children's ministry. All of the Bible studies they wrote. There was a drama that went along with the theme, Mrs. Tracy wrote it. This woman has a gift, ya'll. She is definitely connected with the Man Upstairs 🙂 Anyways, I could go on and on about them, but suffice it to say, none of this would ever have happened without their devotion to God's calling upon their live and I'm so thankful for that. Thanks you two!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
