This year was my first year to be able to make it to Winter camp. Winter Camp is in this really awesome place where our Youth Group goes every winter and does all sorts of activities. Here is the low down of the most awesome weekend of winter. FRIDAY: We left church around 3:45 and got to camp about 3 hours later. After setting up in our cabins we headed down to the audotorium, (which is hardly and audotorium) where we met the most awesome speaker ever Todd Lenns. He talked to us all about the sessions we are going to have with him throughout the weekend and then began to tell us his story. Afterwards it was about ten o clock and us girls decided to go to the cafe and play catch phrase with the guys. We all decided to wal back to our cabin and get ready for bed. Once there we all got our second wind and decided to stay up reaaaallly late! Around 2:30 am me, Andrea, Abbie, Emily, and Brenda all went on a walk because it started to snow lightly and was so beautiful! After that we thought we should get a little sleep since we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow!
SATURDAY: We all woke up a 7am and got ready for the day. We went to breakfast and then went and listened to Todd speak. We talked about the parable of the prodigal son. (Luke 15:11-32) It's about a father and his son asking him for half of his wealth instead of having to wait until, his father passes on. The father respected his wishes give his son the money. As soon as the son recieves the money he packs everything he owns and takes off and lives a wild life far away from his home. The son went and wasted all the money having fun while the father awaited for his return.. the son realized he had made wrong choices and started on his way back home. The father waited and longed for his son to come home and when he saw him on his way he ran to him with joy. You see, the father in this story resembles Jesus, while we resemble the son. We are all sinners and make bad choices but no matter what we do even if we turn our hearts far away from God he is always there loving you endlessly and wanting you to come back to him with all his heart. God never judges you. The verse that stood out to me the most was, "He got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, thre his arms around him and kissed him" Luke 15:20 Think about that for a minute. We are so easily turned from Jesus and look where he remains. He is stands there waiting for you. All you have to do is turn to Jesus and he will run to you. All he wants is to be with you. He wants you to come to him as you are. He will forgive you of all your sins and love you more than you can even imagine. He always has and always will love you. I love you Jesus. Anyway, after the session we went tubing on the crazy massive hill! It felt like a rollar coaster all the way down! We did that for quite sometime and then went to eat some lunch. After lunch we went and played tackle snow football! I got tackled to the ground in like 3 seconds. I was no match for the guys. haha. Some of us quit and had a game of broom ball-four on four. It was great! :D It soon got dark and a hail storm began. The hail was the size of dimes! But being hard core we all decided to go snow shoeing in -10 weather in the middle of a hail storm. We went to the snow shoe place and said it was to dark and late and dangerous to to that, so we decided, "hey we're all warm, lets go tubing!" So we went tubing in an ice storm. It was soo painful! haha But soo much fun. After the tubing nobody wanted to go to sleep considering we all knew that tomorrow was just a three hour drive home! So all of us stayed up and played more games! After games our usual bible study girls got together with the underclassmen and Abbie and Andrea played guitar while I led the singing and we sang worship music for like an hour and a half! After that the younger girls left and us older girls ended up staying awake until about 4:30 am!
SUNDAY: Well, we woke up about 4 hours after we went to sleep, got ready, and went to breakfast in the cafe. Afterwards we went and had our final session with Todd. He was so inspirational to me and made so much sense. He helped me fill in the gaps I wasn't able to figure out alone, and he answered a lot of questions that were running through my mind.
Now I am sitting in my basment still running on almost no sleep for the whole weekend writing this. It's 8 o' clockish and feels like 6am! School will be a drag tomorrow..but I'll get through it. Winter Camp is an experience I won't forget. My relationship with God has become so much stronger just while being there for two days and I already feel a change. Remember, God is right there next to you waiting for you to come to him. he loves you and wants to live with you eternally in heaven. All you have to do is seek god, seek god and he will come running to you and give you the most warm and embracing hug you can imagine. God loves you all.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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