Sunday

We made it to church on time and the kids seemed to enjoy it largely due to today’s speaker, Larry Parsons, a former ER doc who now teaches science at BFA. Larry spoke on “Why I am not an Atheist” and really engaged those listening in either German or English.

After lunch the camp viewed The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe followed by a snack of Rudy’s (one of our teachers) birthday cake – now her second birthday in a row at English Camp. Then off to the soccer field. Camp seems to be reaching the point where the kids are mostly very comfortable with each other and the staff is exhibiting the craziness necessary to make camp memorable. We’ve been laying a running game of “Assassin” (everyone give a straw and a victim – if your assassin catches you without your straw in your hand – you’re dead and need to identify who you were supposed to kill so the carnage can continue.) – and it would surprise you how well mature kitchen ladies can adopt the role of cold-blooded killers! All in fun – I died when I put my straw behind my ear in order to assist one of the dishwashers who then, of course, killed me.

We continued on the topic of spiritual warfare – looked at Acts 19, the story of the founding of the church in Ephesus – what a crazy story starring the Apostle Paul who is such a dangerous guy that even fellow believers thought he was too much. With this story in mind what the book of Ephesians has to say about spiritual warfare takes on a cool dimension.

Right now the gang is decorating for tomorrow’s theme, Christmas. We sent the kids off with a reading, complete with interpretive movements by the Activities gals, of the Night Before Christmas – now if they’ll all QUIETLY snuggle in bed, we’ll have it made.