Camp Living Water 2017

July 16, 2017

In mid-July, we took this young lady to the NC mountains for her second year of summer camp. Brent spent 2 summers in this area in college in ministry and he and I both volunteered as counselors for Camp Living Water 16 to 17 years ago. Now, our eldest is old enough to enjoy her second year of Junior Camp here at Camp Living Water. Time surely does fly!

Rachel was a little nervous last year with it being her first year of camp. This year she was just plain EXCITED! 

She would have honestly has her bag packed about 6 weeks before camp if I would have let her!

Here she is on her evening at camp at her cabin. Mom was allowed to go up and help get her luggage in. She did ask me to pack her suitcase for her again this year. All outfits were labeled for each day. She was organized and it made sure she actually changed clothes during the week - it was a win-win!

She also made it upstairs for her cabin assignment this year. Cabin 12- the first cabin at the top of the stairs. She was excited about this!

We did get to see her twice for just a few minutes during the week. She forgot her water shoes for tubing in the creek so we had to run those by to her.

Her sisters were very glad to see her even for a few minutes. Bethany's go-to phrase any time Rachel was mentioned during the week was "I miss Rachel."

We stopped by on Thursday to drop off a couple of packages for Rachel. If you get 3 letters or 1 package at mail call you have to stand up and sing for the group. So we dropped off two packages so she would have to sing. She was thrilled to tell me that with the letters she received from family too that she had to sing twice.

While we were there, Rebekah was able to ring the dinner bell to bring all the campers in for the meal. She was thrilled!

We didn't realize that mail call was actually right about the same time we dropped off Rachel's packages so we got to see her get her packages and sing. Here she is proudly showing off the space shuttle (she's our space girl) that her Daddy hand drew on her package.

This is the face that greeted us on Friday evening when we picked Rachel up...I think she may have missed us just a little.

This was a tough photo to track down but this was actually Rachel's first trip to Camp Living Water in 2009, when she was 6 months old! We brought our youth from Swift Creek Baptist to Teen Camp here at Camp Living Water and of course, Rachel came with us

That was a very happy face both then and now to be at Camp Living Water, but, Wow, what a difference 8 years makes!!! She loves being a camper for real now!

We got pictures of all the girls each on the swing because we will blink and these girls will be campers at CLW too.

Our Allie is now the youngest in the family to have been to Camp Living Water at 3 months old.

Oh my, these sisters were glad to be back together again!

We are so thankful for the blessing Camp Living Water has been to Brent and I and now to our kids as well!  We are so thankful for all who faithfully love and serve Jesus there and pour their hearts into His Church and His kids! Rachel had a wonderful week and is already planning her trip to camp next year!