Unlocking the Doors

This week at camp, we had our Olympics!

Highlights

1) My boys were Team Japan.
2) We designed t-shirts for our team. Some kids wore theirs everyday!
3) I was Mr. Potato Head for The CPTV (Camp Pathway TV) News every morning. My co-anchor was Flarry Larry(Hank my JR counselor) who wore a different hair style everyday.
4) Events were pretty sweet ranging from canoeing relays to an obstacle course.
5) I was the only person to score ZERO on the discus throw aka frisbee toss.
6)  There were 2 Team Awards: Most Team Spirit and Best Sportsmanship.
7) Team JAPAN won both awards!! I am so proud of my boys!
I got a pretty nasty scrape/cut/bruise right above my elbow while on the obstacle course.
9) 8 countries were represented at Camp Pathway.
1) France
2) Canada
3) Switzerland
4) Greece
5) Jamaica
6) Japan…my boys!
7) Italy
St. Kitts

Those were some of the highlights. It was so amazing to watch the kids encourage and cheer each other on. My boys placed 3rd in all the events except for 2. But that didn’t matter to them. They were cheering each other on!! Today was the last day, and a couple of my boys got into a fight. Me and my other counselor Zach decided to sit them down and make it clear to them that we had seen them grow and the attitudes that were developed in Olympic Week needed to carry on for the rest of the summer.  We told them that we loved them and were praying for them daily.

And that’s when something beautiful happened.

One of our boys, Trey whose last day was today asked if we could do a prayer ring.  Besides me and Zach, we had 3 out of 11 boys pray. I was closing us in prayer, I was going strong and that’s when the Holy Spirit moved on me. I broke down in tears.  If you know me, I am not much of a cryer…and I really feel like God is trying to show me otherwise. It really shocked my boys and me. But their response touched me. They hugged me, and told me it was going to be alright.

Until next time!