Tonight was joy. With the weather being so
nice there was nothing else to do but to have a BBQ. So minus an actually BBQ
we cooked up some awesome steaks, bought some cheese and made some Philly
cheese steaks styled burgers. We added some speakers, a basketball net, a few
foot balls and 52 pieces of chalk to make a solid 2 hours of laughter and fun
with around 40 of our kids and youth combined.
An advantage of holding camp
outside is that we are more in the community which has both positive and
negative effects. It can be crazier keeping track of kids and keeping them safe
but it is great to see familiar faces passing that we don’t see regularly. Two
of my boys from my very first summer walked past tonight with some of their friends,
now 15 and much taller than I am they ran over to me for a hug with smiles on
their faces still calling me Jello.
For me it was a time of really loving and
spending time with individual kids while being surround by many, playing catch
with a little 6 year counting every catch he made, we got up to 36. As camp
finished up the kids slowly disappeared until we were only left with a mess and
two little ladies waiting to be picked up. They smiled sweetly and suggested
that they would be able to help me clean dishes if I found them a chocolate bar
to eat afterwards.
Once the basement was cleaned, chocolate enjoyed we headed
back outside to enjoy the warm and last light of the day. Kicking a soccer ball
around being okay with extending our day. Before long our four formally dressed
senior highs arrived back from their day down town meeting CEO’s and hearing their
stories. About two and a half hours later we figured it was probably about time
to head home.
Tonight was filled with joy and was an
evening with a huge sense of presence in the community we work in, but also a
clear picture of the sense of community that our camp family is for each other
for which I am very thankful.
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