Back from camp....on to more summer fun!

Well we're back from a week at church camp......Church camp is trailers, mobile homes, tents, pop ups......any type of camping you can think of! It doesn't have a pool or pond, no biking or camp fires.......but it just draws you somehow each and every year! My kids love meeting friends they haven't seen for a year or having alot of time to spend with good church friends that camp too.....















There's an awesome play ground......this is my little red headed nephew Jacob who is a dear sweet soul.....how he loves to run all over camp and if we didn't force feed him I think he would skip meals all together at camp! haha We live in an old mobile home which is nice and spacious until bedtime when we try to fit 7 of us and sometimes 9 of us in there...then it seems a bit snug but we manage! My friend Leanne squeezes her 6 ducklings, a husband and herself into a far smaller trailer! haha she reminded me not to complain about our mobile! haha

















There are services every morning at 10 a.m. with that one being a bible study style and seminars at 2:30 (which I only attended one day ha I read or napped the other days) and evening services at 6:45......every year it's such a time to refresh spiritually......yet it's exhausting too.....lots to wrap our minds around and pack in during those 10 days.....The last day I said to someone "I'm refreshed in spirit yet weary in body!" ha

The kids services are amazing, wild, fun, and right in touch with each age....all 3 of my kids had many times they felt God speaking to their hearts.....which is music to a parent's ear! Especially for Jordan and Macy's age....I love that they are refreshed in spirit too before they go back to school and get into a routine!

This is just the view of one street at camp......it's amazing how many campers can pack in.....evening service can have over 2000 people in it and this year there were 1000 that were 18 years old and UNDER! amazing......what a great thought that 1000 kids in the next generations to come are learning how to live with purpose and learning more and more about God!

Jordan had a ball hanging daily with friends......playing cards, one night a friend had a guitar and they sang praise songs on his friend's patio, they giggle and laugh and screech and have a ball.....I love hearing them tell each other what touched them at camp when they are on each others facebook pages.....it's all so worth the dust, rain, HOT HOT weather, stains that never come out, cooking every meal in an electric skillet, listening to 1000 kids run and scream(smile), pouty faces because they have to come home for a meal, cramped quarters, 2 minutes of hot water in the shower, power outages, and no McDonalds close by........ to learn more about God's word and learn practical things to get us through the day to day, to live it out in front of others to draw them to Him and to reach another generation.........and I'm not even the camping type! hahaha