It was an incredible week...except for the whole 16-hour bus-ride part. But we made the best of that by making one of our students lie down in the aisle so we would have a table for Euchre ( shown in the first picture below).
While at camp we got to do all of the classic camp activities: rock climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, paint ball, leap of faith, swimming, and tons of silly games (bumper soccer was my favorite). The best part of the week was the time we as leaders got to spend with our students building relationships and discussing the teachings for each day. It was a very meaningful week in which we got to be a part of our students growing in their faith and choosing to take God's calling to bring justice to the world more seriously. Becky and I are very excited to build on the momentum of this past week as the next school year starts for our students.
In addition to God doing some very cool things in the lives of our students, it was also one of the funniest weeks of my life. I have not laughed as much as I did this past week since college. Middle school students can be quite brilliant and hilarious and they kept all of us leaders laughing so much that several of us lost our voices.
We had one 8th grade student join us for camp who we had never met before. His name is Hal Boelts, which I decided sounded very similar to Steve Holt! from Arrested Development. I got all of our guys saying Hal Boelts! in the same manner as Steve Holt! from the show. You can see all of us in our Hal Boelts! pose in the pictures below. If you have no idea what I am talking about watch this.
Me with chest hair (real) and one of my students Chris with chest hair (fake/drawn on with marker).
One of the leaders Ryan, some of the 8th graders, and myself on feux-hawk Thursday.
The pictures below show some of the 200 middle school students at UCYC during one of the worship services.
Becky and I are so blessed to get to hang out with the students from our church and just be a part of their lives.
Stay tuned for Part 2 which should feature some hilarious videos which likely only I will be amused by.
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2 comments:
Bryant! I think the feux-hawk suits you well! You really blend in with the classic "youth pastor" crowd when you're sporting one of those. My brother-n-law Johnnie has a mini-feux pretty much every day of his life.
Hey guys, we enjoyed looking at your blog. It is great to get to hear a little of what's going on with the middle schoolers. Hope y'all are doing well, and we look forward to seeing you (oh, we're moving back to CO around New Year's). Tell everyone at Middle School we say hi.
Jonathan and Ashley
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