easter camp

sorry about the tardy post but here is one from easter weekend. easter camp happened that weekend. and let me tell you it was incredible. way back in canada i remember carmen telling me of this camp called and i pictured maybe 100 kids and it was this cute little thing. but boy was i wrong! it's one of the best run camps i've ever been to!
our BBC youth group headed to Mystery Creek (where it was located) on thursday evening. our campsite was already set up very kindly by a group who went up the day before to set up for us. we had a big marquee tent where we could hang out with couches, ping pong table, foosball table, and ambience lighting :) and a series of other tents where we could all lay our tired bodies for a few hours of sleep each night.
once settled we went out to the first evening meeting.

4700 people attended easter camp! 

A day set up looked something like this: Leaders meeting at 7:30 am where we got a briefing on the happenings of the day. Then we'd go back, make sure all our youth were up and getting breakfast and then we all headed to morning session. which usually consisted of worship singing and a speaker. Then they'd release us to all go back to our own campsites and have small groups with our kids to further discuss what was talked about by the speaker. lunch was served at 12:15 and all 4,700 of us would line up to get our delicious feed. in the afternoons it was basically "free time" with many things to choose from. such as a talent quest (which the final three got to perform in front of the masses), several different seminars on different topics from anything between girl/boy stuff to the Holy Spirit, there were dance workshops (which were a blast for the 15 minutes i attended one), sports competitions, movies, paintball, and blowup bouncy castle maze thingies (WHICH WERE INCREDIBLE.) so plenty to occupy oneself with. dinner was served, more free time, then off to evening session which had much of the same set up to the morning sessions. each evening there were different events after the session. on friday night it was a Hoedown Showdown. picture thousands of young people trying to figure out square dancing and that's what you get. tons of laughs and confused faces. on saturday eve it was a massive dance party where people dressed up circusy or animaly. and on sunday night we just had time to pray with each other and it was amazing. God did some incredible work in so many lives.

playing "big booty" in the lunch line

face stuffing at lunch time 

reflective art space

hoedown showdown!

"the village" a place to hang all times of the day with
cool shops and yum food to purchase

a challenge, get the person in the sumo suit from the stage to
the top of the bleachers and back down again, both safe and fun HA

dressed up to go to the elektro circus dance parry

dan sparty

dance workshop proskies

being leaders

easter camp as a whole for me was such a great experience. i got to know so many more of the youth and leaders better, as you do when you're hanging out straight time. i had many laughs, learned, grew, was stretched, and experienced God in a new way. i am so grateful for my time that i got to have there.