The Amazing Race COTW 2018

I have been unusually quiet about camp this summer.  That’s what my sister tells me (my brother, too).  And they are right.  I have been unusually quiet about camp this summer and mostly it’s because it’s very much the same as usual.  Not much to say that hasn’t already been said.  But at their prompting, I will share this update about what’s going on up here in the Great White North.

This year’s theme is The Amazing Race.  This was the theme for the summer of 2010 when I first came to Camp of the Woods. I designed a “race” back then and they saved all the pieces and we resurrected it this summer with many improvements.  Each day we “travel” to a different continent and do tasks related to that place.  Here are some of pictures of what it looks like:

Zimbabwe: Carrying water

Argentina;  Polo

US Virgin Islands:  Pancake Flipping Race

USA:  Barrel Racing

Canada:  Building Innukshuk

I have been telling stories about winners.  I tell the campers that winners in the Kingdom of God look different than winners in races might look.  I tell them about how Elisha’s servant had his eyes opened to the army of God that was surrounding them and protecting them.  I want them to see that winners in the Kingdom of God see things that others can’t see.  I want God to open their eyes to see that there is a God and he cares for them.  

Adam has been doing the evening chapels.  He has been speaking on God’s Amazing Grace, and he has been using the life of Paul and his journeys as the basis for his talks.

The team that came for Mission Week back in June did an amazing job decorating.  There are so many little details in the lodge that I have been playing “I Spy” for the evening entertainment to get them to pay attention to all the things that have been put in there.  Kudos to Tracey Sarris for the imagination to pull this off.

So that’s some of the surface stuff about camp.  Soon I’ll try to talk about some of the deeper things going on this summer.