RevBlog

It's been a day since we got back from camp and I am still exhausted! I think the 6 months leading to camp a lot of us we're very hmm . . . curious, how camp would be at the "Church in the Cornfield". After all, we're used to hosting our own camp (JAC) and the past two years we've gone to a camp in Erie, PA. I think a lot of us asked the question... can God move in IL? (Joke) 13 hours bus ride, no cell phones or ipods, could we survive?

Now that camp is over I can look back and say that I was more than pleased with everything! I really enjoyed the way they had their days formatted, the services, reflection times, games, the camp rules, the lakes, the food, the services, their leaders, and staff. I would definitely go back to this camp.

Here is a list of my highlights:

• 13 hours bus ride - Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Napoleon Dynamite, The Lion King, McD's and Burger King
• Frogs in the Swimming Pool, Poster for ticks
• The lake - Game with the inflatable balls, tug of war, trampoline, paddle boats, the bridge . . . biathlon, water ball, spasswords, name that price,
  
• Jesse Swanson - Movie Previews, Girls being "gangstas" and rapping, the "Bubba" dance, America's got Talent before meals, my long socks new fashion style, my new short pink socks, running camera every night (my new calling!), G squared, Twix Ice Cream Bars!!!,
  
• Sleeping in 1 room with 100 guys...
  

I thought my first post would be a recap from Summer Scream Camp (which was awesome.) However, when we got back to the church at 3:15 a.m. Saturday morning, Madeline called me into my cube because she said someone left me a message. One student told me another student had fallen and gotten a bloody nose (the last thing I wanted to deal with after a 14 hour bus ride.) As I walked back to my cube, I saw it was surrounded by campers laughing... This is what they were looking at:

So...

I've decided that while the staff is away, the Vogan will play. If you want in on some super-secret ultra-covert fantastic prank action hit this up with a comment or send me an e-mail at cory@rev412.org and we will have a good bit of devious fun. Just to whet your appetite, think aluminum foil and balloons.

Oh, and I shall post photo's of the results shortly after.

Summer camp is finally here! We're heading out on a 10-12 hour bus ride tomorrow baby! This should be exciting stuff. Sean wants to have the Lord of the Rings trilogy going on one bus and Star Wars on the other bus. I'm down... I think that is every ones dream... to take an entire day and just watch an entire trilogy, but it never seems to happen because we're too busy. Anyway... I always get off topic . . .

Zack Blair will be running the show while we're gone so do not miss Rev! Zack is the man! Since the camp is taking away all technology, I am not sure if I'll be able to Twitter or post any blogs... in either case I'll have a post with funny pictures and stories from throughout the week. I'll miss you all... Cory is in charge of blogging while I'm gone... so if the blogs are "weird"...that is why.

We're expecting God to do huge things at this camp and to come back with all of our students sold out to God and ready to head into the Fall ready to go out and get 300 students to Rev every Wednesday night! (That is the number God has put on our hearts to reach this fall... if not more... More on that later...)

Much Love...Bubs