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If the camp is co-ed, the kids will all wind up with crushes on each other that serve as an object lesson in how Love Makes You Dumb (and nobody ever manages to hook up).ĭespite all this though, the students and counselors will always band together at the end of the summer to take on their hated rivals: the affluent summer camp across the lake. The only fun they have is messing with each other, leading to an Escalating War in no time (and brutal hazing if some of the kids are new). Usually, boredom drives all the campers to insanity (if they weren't that way to begin with, as the hero's bunk-mate always seems to be). Usually, though, there's at least one counselor who tries to make some of the awkward kids feel better. The teenage counselors are either awesomely stupid and actually take the 'camp spirit' and 'camp traditions' seriously (often bordering on Pointy-Haired Boss), or treat the camp as their own personal vacation spot with the campers' welfare as an afterthought, or in some cases are out-and-out bullies who sadistically terrorize their younger charges.

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The bathrooms are outhouses that require a full nature hike to reach. Arts and crafts are so boring you want to be back in school. In sports, there's a handful of super-jocks who treat it as Serious Business and reduce everyone else to terror. The environment seems to be sentient and out to get you (mosquitoes chase you across camp, perfectly-timed inconvenient rain, etc.). Summer camps in fiction are usually run like the company from Dilbert. Pinging is currently not allowed.- Allan Sherman, 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter from Camp)' You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Saturday, July 26th, 2014 at 10:26 pm and is filed under Bible Camp.

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Having three drivers on the return trip made the trip much shorter. In the evening we stopped in Colorado Springs at Rustic Hills Baptist Church. We were able to attend Sunday morning service at Bible Baptist Church in Russell, Kansas. The trip back to Arizona took three days. He also spent three weeks with our good friends the Ross’ and Pastor Johnson in Gonzales, Louisiana on the weekends and at Gospel Singers of America in Mississippi during the week where he studied singing and piano.

Caleb had spent the previous 10 weeks in Indiana finishing his sophomore year working with Grandpa, Grandma, and Uncle Jim and enjoying time with his cousins. On Monday, July 14, Jane went to Waterloo and picked up Caleb as he was transported to Iowa by a church work crew that had helped in Pierceton, Indiana at Bethel Baptist Church where Jane’s brother Jim is the pastor and her parents John and Jean Baughman serve. We left camp with a warm heart rejoicing in what God has done. At the campfire we rejoiced in those who shared openly their faith in Christ and their desire to serve the Lord. During the two weeks we saw 9 Salvations, 6 for assurance, 9 Dedications, 4 responded specifically for missions and 12 were seeking a closer walk with God.

For the evening service the messages were presented through ventriloquism and object lessons. I covered things like Inspiration, Deity of Christ, Creation, and Why the Just Suffer. Each morning I presented my seminars on apologetics - what every camper needs to know. We were there for both Junior I and Junior II weeks of camp from July 6 -18, 2014. It was good to see him and his wife again and serve the Lord with them at camp. I attended Bible College with the director Jan Kolar. Raccoon River Bible Camp is located in Iowa just a few miles east of Carroll.