This year was my last year being in the teen department at my church. I went to camp being a high school senior. My church goes to Sagmount Baptist Youth Camp. It was great all week long. We had an awesome time, and a great spiritual revival. My church brought 5 guys, and about 15+ girls. (yeah.. outnumbered again!)
For sports most of the games like volleyball and basketball, we just used the 5 guys. (Yeah that’s right no subs) Technically we were supposed to have 6 for volleyball, but we decided to make do and fill in the gap ourselves. We actually won our first couple of basketball games, witch was amazing because some of the games was us 5 against 10-15. One of the games we were against 5 small churches combined together.
Our volleyball games were the same. No subs, so we had to play the whole game. It was actually to our advantage because the good players were rotated more quickly on our team, compared to a team of 10-15. We had several close games, but all-in-all we amazingly took first place. It was awesome.
I was entered in several talent categories, including piano and preaching. I got superior ribbon for piano. For preaching, I set a new camp record; longest sermon. It was my last year, and last time to be able to preach in front of 200+ for awhile, so I didn’t abide by the time limit, and preached four minutes overtime. I got the lowest score because I had 120 penalty points. Anyway I also did a piano duet with my sister, and halfway through we switched places (it was cool), and toward the end I got to much “into the song”. People told me that I started to bob my head a little. I told Abigail before to just relax and go with the flow, so I guess I took my own advise a little too seriously.
Every year there’s a Bible quiz for those who choose to participate. We study long ahead of time, and then at camp take the quiz. Then on the last day the top three teams (2-4 people in a team) battle it off in a quiz-off. This year the team I was on got to be one of the three. So we studied harder than ever and ended up taking first place in that too.
Although this was my last year, I really think it was the best year I’ve ever had a camp. And I really thank God for the chance I got to participate, and for the people who took time off to make it possible.
<!–Sam Paasch–>