Youth Camp Tuesday

Day 2 – Banished The morning meal was familiar San Antonio fare – breakfast tacos and mango punch, well at least we know tacos. During morning Chaos, the fall of Man was presented from Genesis Chapter 3. The pavilion has a tree, painted on the wall, which is upside down symbolizing the result of man’s sin in perverting the worship God created. The kids were introduced to a 10 for 10 activity in which they spread out over the camp to create some separation (10 ft+) and spent 10 minutes journaling about what God showed them in this chapter. They reconvened for praise and worship before a pizza lunch. The high schoolers took a Sherpa trek, hugging the limestone bluffs high above the river floor. This journey of about a mile gave some great lessons about dependence on your neighbor to keep you on the trail and not becoming a “ROCK” to campers below. Exiting the trail, we ascended to what has to be one of the largest crosses in the state of Texas. Constructed of 24-in. diameter ductile iron pipe, this cross will be standing when Jesus returns, even if He delays for a millennium. Once off the mountain the high school team descended to the river and jousted in a water polo match. The competition was heated but the scores were a bit lopsided. Exiting the river, the group headed up a hill on the edge of camp for Bible study. The middle school team started with a battle royale. Each gladiator was fitted with soft tipped archery weapons and commenced to seek and destroy the enemy. After a break in the coffee shop, they walked to the far end of camp to cool off in the “bath tubs”, an area in the river with a series of depressions in the river bottom rock with trapped water. The theme for the week – God is good, Man falls short, God provides the Way - was dramatically illustrated through the activities at the end of the day. After the paradise of the Garden of Eden yesterday complete with food at every turn, today we were banished from the Garden and forced to eat our meals in the wilderness. Fortunately this was an object lesson and we didn’t truly have to become hunter-gathers. Our meal consisted of beans and chicken meat mixed together and cooked over a campfire in the cans they came out of. After a devotion exploring the struggle of Adam and Eve outside the Garden and the effect on our sin condition, we returned from the wilderness to a praise and worship time at the rock climbing wall.