The World According To Chris Brewer

After a good five and a half days of Senior Camp 2007 and a good few hours of Young Adult camp, I am finally home.

We had a great Senior Camp this year. Final tally was 104 campers and 38 staff for a total of 142. The campground we rent out has a capacity of 155. I was so happy to be given the opportunity to work Senior Camp — I got much more out of it as staff than I ever did as a camper.

What I was impressed with was how fluid the staff was in working together, and also working with the kids. Most of the kids, if not all, seemed to have something really positive to say about Camp.

I was also impressed with the kids’ spiritual maturity — on the final night during altar call, some of us staff weren’t feeling led to pray for any of the kids — instead we felt God saying it was their time to step out in faith and touch God for themselves. We as staff can only push them along so far until they have to step out on their own and they did an awesome job with that.

It was so good to see people I haven’t seen in five years. Seeing old friends I grew up with in camp and are now working it alongside me, is the biggest blessing I could have asked for.

I also loved meeting new people. New staff, new campers. The face of our camps is ever changing and we’re doing a great job adapting.

I’ll have photos, audio and video up ASAP.

UPDATE: Photos are now available in my Multimedia section. Click here to view them.

The photos were all shot by Debbie Parker and thus are used by her permission. Redistribution of the photos without Debbie’s permission is a copyright violation.