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Campfire Saturday 

The Silent Summer

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #camasmeadowsbiblecamp, #camp, #campministry

One time, I drove past an orchard that was being cut down. The trees were in the full-blush of spring bloom. Covered in a glorious snow of pale-pink blossoms. Full of beauty and life and the potential for a fruitful year. But they had all been cut down. They lay on their sides, in full bloom, dead. All of a sudden, I find myself feeling like that orchard.

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Campfire Saturday 

The Weak, The Stinky, The Outsider … The Heart!

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #biblecamp, #camasmeadows, #camasmeadowsbiblecamp, #campdog, #campministry, #cascademountains, #middleschoolcamp, #summercamp

“God often chooses the unpopular, the weak, the stinky, the poor, the outsiders, the anxious, the fearful” –Faramir

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Transformed

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #biblecamp, #camasmeadowsbiblecamp, #camp, #campdog, #campministry, #kidscamp, #outdoorfun, #summercamp

As a mother of seven, MAMO was not daunted by such a task. Before camp began, she prayed, watched, listened, and ordered a fabulous collection of transformers online that she had no idea how to put together!

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Surrender

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #camp, #campdog, #campministry, #middleschoolcamp, #summercamp

They threw themselves into laughing, shouting, raucous fun, all while deep inside their hearts were broken. I saw them sacrifice their right to grieve, so that these dear children could postpone their sorrow for one, glorious week.

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Dinosaur Stomp

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #camp, #campdog, #campministry, #juniorcamp

One of them mused to a camp intern about spiritual matters.

“I wonder what it would be like to be stepped on by a dinosaur? That is the fourth thing I’m going to do in heaven, be stepped on by a dinosaur”

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Still Good Cake!

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Kristen 0 Comments #broken, #camp, #campministry, #teencamp

As we searched the pew for Kleenex, hands held tight, Scruffy turned to me. “Do you know what Van Helsing’s theme for chapel is next week?”

I answered that I did not.

“Broken,” Scruffy said. “His theme is broken.”

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