Well I cant believe it but My time working Camps and serving with YoungLife here is over. But what an awesome time it was!!! I just got to London after being about 4 hours away at a UK Camp. This Camp was very Unique it was both a YoungLife and Wyldlife camp(wyldlife is Younglife's Middle School Ministry) but they ran seperately and concurrently , we ran 2 different camps at the same site at the same time. Which made for alot of fun and alot of hard work.
We did just about every element at a normal camp in the states except we did them all twice!!!! The only things we did with all the kids were meals and , Entertainment Night and the Opera. We did 2 Work Crew Nights , 2 Bonfires we ran 2 clubs a couple of days to be able to get all the messages in , so that meant on 3 days of the camp WE HAD 4 Clubs in a day!!!!
I worked with the Program team which are the guys who provide the comedy and actually pretty much run the entire week . I wasnt actually an upfront character but i worked kinda as the Head Sound Tech so to speak working with the work crew guys who were doing sound making sure they were prepped , knew what they were doing and putting them in a position to succeed. I also helped get leaders ready for entertainment night (which is a night where the leaders who are with kids get up and do skits and shine in front of the kids they brought). It felt really good spending my week working putting people in a place to succeed and by doing that succeeding myself. We worked really hard , I usually went to sleep from anywhere between 1:30- 3:00 am and was up by 7am every day.
There were guys there that have been on staff for the last 20 years plus and they all said that they dont know of any camp every done where Wyldlife and Younglife ran seperately at the same time. so its pretty cool to know i was apart of something possibly never been done before in Younglife's history. Just like Germany they have some great people who have given up life in the states to share the word and show God's love to the kids of the U.K. Wyldlife kids are crazy but alot of fun.
There was another cool thing about this camp , there was a group of Capernum kids there (capernum is YoungLife's Ministry to Mentally and Physically Challenged kids.) These kids were so great and it was really cool getting to love on those kids and seeing them feel so special all week. All the hardwork was rewarded at Say-So(which is YL 's invitation type thing which gives kids the opportunity to stand up and declare they accepted Christ) Out of about 110 and combined campers we had 19 !!! Kids accept Christ at the camp.
This camp was such a perfect way to end this part of my trip , It was by far the most fun i had at any Camp and probably by far the most physically taxing as well. I have met so many awesome people along the way , YoungLife is truly a family and one i definately hope to be apart of for a long time to come. It has been an amazing experience some has been hard , some has been Great , but I wouldnt trade any of it , and its something Ill definately remember for the rest of my llife.
