I can’t believe that this past weekend has come and gone! CAMP has been a staple for the St. Andrews Youth Group for the past couple of years and it is always a challenge to keep it fresh, fun, and filled with awesome events and fellowship. This year, God once again allowed us to have an incredible weekend up at the Morris’ farm [Shalako Farm] and it was even better than I imagined! In preparation for this event, the male Youth.Volunteers created a music video for our theme song: ROCKfist! (or Rawkfist) by Thousand Foot Crutch = a 90′s Christian rock band!]
The theme for this year was, “What are you standing on!?”
Our speaker, Michael Dean, did a great job preaching the Gospel to our students by challenging them to “pick up their cross daily” and follow Christ! We talked about the deceitful Rock of Self that we so easily try to stand upon, the sturdy and incredibly solid Rock of God, and then the gospel centered Rock of Christ that we are to share with others. 
The weekend was full of beautiful scenery,
an awesome devotional led by Youth.Volunteer Allen Whitley,
crazy games before our nightly worship and talk,
great times around the camp fire! (this was taken the last morning on the trip… everyone was barely moving! 
and an awesome hour and a half long Adventure Race that went all over the farm while both tribes played tug-of-war over part of the pond, threw darts at balloons filled with paint, guided a blind-folded tribe member through a ropes course, pushed a hay bale down to the bottom of the field,
took their tribe across the whole pond while one member had to blow up and take a pool float to the other side,
they had to complete a life size Sudoku puzzle made by our very own Joshua Schuster,
navigated through a gigantic maze while stopping to do different stations…
like pulling their whole team through a hoolahoop while holding hands and standing on a 2×6,
throwing tons of balls and frisbees into a bucket from 20+ feet away, then playing the favorite stumper Mad Gab,
and then participating in an eating contest where every member of the tribe had to eat something off of the string without using hands and this included anchovies, mushrooms, peppers, pickles, donuts, and caramel covered apples!
The final obstacle had the students throwing their ROCKS from the swinging bridge (or bank) into a bucket and when it was full enough, it raised their tribe flag! 
We also had an awesome dance party…
and were entertained each night by our Emcees = John and Alfi (aka Josh Schuster and Allen Whitley!)
All in all, we had an incredibly blessed weekend where God was glorified, good food and fun fellowship was constant, relationships were strengthened, and no one was hurt! We praise God for his many blessings and consistent goodness! Many volunteers, parents, and members of the church made this weekend possible – so a special thanks for all of you! You know who you are. AND a special thanks to AJ and Jolyn Morris for allowing us to use their farm and for their incredible generosity and help!
Posted by Danelle on October 25, 2011 at 12:59 pm
ugh…the group shot.