CAMP!!

I am soooo excited about summer camp!!

We leave on Sunday night and I will have lots of stories for this blog when I get back!
We're having a camp rally at church this Wednesday and hopefully we'll get to find out what teams we're on and what colors to bring (in clothing). I'm going to go to the thrift store on Thursday or Friday and I'm going to buy t-shirts in my team color (if I don't already have any) and a pair of black fitted cargo pants for when we play underground church.
Explanation: for those of you reading who don't know what underground church is, I shall explain: A few years ago at winter camp, with our previous pastor (Eric Bancroft), we played this game. Quincy Lema, a thin short red headed guy, comes up onto the stage with a big Tupperware box under his arm. "Alright," he says, kind of nonchalant,"We're going to play a game, I'm sure you've all heard of it." he places the box at his feet and bends down to open it, "best game in the world," he mumbles with a smile on his face. He pulls a deck of cards out of the box and as he throws them into the air he says, "You can guess what it's called" everyone in the audience moans. Fifty-two card pick up. yeah, right, the best game in the world.
Anyway, what happens next is rather foggy in my memory because it happened so fast and was so very frightful. All the light go out. The girls in the front row scream.
I was sitting next to my friend Jordan, who was sitting on the end of our row. Our pastor, when no one could see him, ran into the room and jump out at Jordan, screaming with all his might. i don't remember exactly what he said but the gist of it was : Be warned they are coming, you have to stay strong, you must stay together, don't let them break you. you have no idea what's in store for you. Run!
So, Eric, screams next to Jordan, and continues screaming all the way up the aisle to the stage where he hollers out more warnings, and then runs around the room for a few minutes shaking and screaming at people. He even pick up a freshman and carried him around the room a little bit before putting him back in his seat. And then, just as quick as he had come, he ran out the other door. to say everyone was a little shaken would be an understatement.
I think we sat there in somewhat silence for about half a minute and then the lights came back on. Everyone turned around in their seats to see who was coming in the door. two tall muscular men walk into the room. they are both wearing black ski masks, fitted black shirts and black cargo pants. I think I remember seeing guns at their sides. Behind them walks in BK, which of course made the whole thing fall apart. It's kind of hard not to recognize the tall Canadian man. Even dressed as Hitler (and very well done )he was still BK. Anyway, he comes in with more masked men behind him. What he said next is fuzzy but he basically told us that since we were Christians he was going to make us suffer and he was going to make a game of it. so we had five minutes to go back to our cabins and get on warmer clothes and then run. (it was a game, so after BK left, Quincy came back and gave us boundaries and rules and told us that our goal was to find Eric and become a part of his church) So we spent the rest of the night trying to avoid getting caught by the scary men who howl freakishly when they see you in the dark. The group I was in ran into two angels. the masked men couldn't take us back to jail if we were with an angel. there were rumors going around that there was a demon too. Apparently she was dressed as an angel but she was sending people toward the masked men instead of toward the pastor.

so there it is! and I am sooooo excited about playing it again this year. two years ago I was able to find the church. it was wonderful!! we sat on the ground in the cold dark and sang hymns and the pastor read scripture. Or at least he was trying to, I think he was speaking from memory...there wasn't enough light in those woods to see how many fingers on e had, much less words on a page.
So, much fun. And so inspiring and rejuvenating!
I can't wait!

Hm, I think I'll give my fingers a break for a moment.

:)