Tenacious Tuesday

May 25, 2010

Yo! What’s up everyone? I’m Nate James. I’m 20 years old and I will be a junior at Anderson University next school year. This is my first summer working at Camp Longridge and it’s been amazing so far! God has done some amazing things here at camp and we have only been here just over one week!

So today is Tenacious Tuesday. For those of you who don’t know what tenacious means, it means a strong, tight hold; holding together. It was perfect for our first day of ropes course training as we dealt with ropes which is very important to be tenacious!

Last Saturday, we had our Open House event. We had 150+ people here at the camp and it was awesome! We had all of the lake activities open which consist of “the bullet” (big water slide), the blob, canoeing, and fishing. The high ropes course and paintball was also open for use on Saturday. For lunch we had amazing grilled burgers and hotdogs as well as some barbeque, baked beans, and chips! The sweet tea was awesome! It was so good! haha. Overall, Saturday was a great day to be outdoors! I just want to take this time to thank all of our cooks for a great lunch, all of our lifeguards who worked the lake, all of our ropes course facilitators, all of our paintball facilitators, all of our sales table workers! Everyone did such a great job! Most of all, I want to thank God for an awesome and safe time!

Last night, we had a prayer walk around the camp grounds. We all gathered together and prayed for camp this summer, each staffer, every child/student/church group who comes into the camp this summer, the worship band, rec time, Cecil and the kitchen workers, canteen workers, Frank and Mark Shivers as they deliver messages of God’s word this summer that God would open up our eyes and hearts as well as the kid’s/student’s eyes and hearts to receive what has to be said so that we would apply these applications to our lives to live like Christ! We also prayed for Scott as he administrates everything this summer, etc. The list goes on and on. We prayed for several things! Thanks to Justin and Chas for playing the guitar for us as we walked around the camp praying for many many things for this summer! Yall did a great job. I really felt God moving last night. The holy spirit was definitely working in the lives of the staffers. I felt the presence of the holy spirit moving and working and God is going to do some amazing things summer! I am so excited to see what He has in store for my life as well as the lives of the other staffers, kids, and students this summer! Also last night we, the staffers, had the chance to stand around a bonfire down by the lake and share a moment that we have experienced with another staffer that really encouraged us. It was a really amazing time to get to know each staffer better and to share our thoughts and feelings! God has brought this 2010 summer staff so close already in only one week!! It is so amazing what God is doing here at Camp Longridge already. I am so excited for the campers to come! It’s gonna be awesome! Overall, the prayer walk was just what we needed to do! We will definitely have to do it more often when we get the chance!

Today, we hit up the ropes course! It was a blast and so much fun! The ropes course trainers are very experienced and are great teachers! Today we learned all about the equipment used in ropes course activities. This involves a lot of equipment, but it is very essential because safety comes first! Also we had the opportunity to learn 4 rope knots! And to top today off, we learned how to belay someone climbing the rock climbing wall! It was so awesome! We learned so much today on the ropes course and we have a couple more days to learn more things! Thank you God for all of the safety today! We know that on a ropes course there can be serious injuries, but by your grace, we made it through the day safely! Lord, we ask that you bless us with a great night’s rest and and great day tomorrow on the ropes course! We also ask for you to keep us safe tomorrow through our activities up on the course. All these things we pray in Christ’s name. Amen!

Thanks guys,
Nate James

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