summer stories: PUSH, Impact and what Koda's really thinking.
A. is a lifer here at Evergreen. This summer, she spent three weeks at camp, for PUSH and Impact and she says they were the best three weeks of her summer! Here's A.'s story, in her own words:
PUSH was almost more fun than Impact for a few reasons. With PUSH, you got to know and work with everyone and your group became pretty tight. Despite the fact that we did a ton of cleaning, it was all in how you looked at that made it fun. If you went into it thinking it was going to suck then it did, but if you went in looking for all the fun you could have then you would have fun. I even had fun cleaning urinals. There was one time were we got this idea to go into the outdoor bathrooms like the FBI, so we grabbed our spray bottles and rags and brushes and that good stuff. We would have one person leading and one crouched with someone else holding a spray bottle over their head ready to fight the grime.
One morning our PUSH crew decided on what Koda would say if he could speak, it would go something like this [Kerry's note: Koda is Courtney's unusually faithful dog -- he's a bit of fixture around here and he's pretty obsessed with our squirrel population. And yes, that's a really old picture.]:
"MOM MOM MOM, SQUIRREL, MOM MOM SQUIRRREL!"
or
"WHERE ARE WE GOING NOW? WHAT ARE WE DOING? SQUIRREL! WAIT UP!"
The craziness aside, God really spoke to me this summer. While I was at chosen skill, I had my camera so I started taking pictures and they turned out really nice so really it was God showing Himself through creation. He is all around and when we don't feel like He is there sometimes we need to look for Him instead of Him looking for us. I learned that I can't do anything on my own but that I need God, without Him our life will feel like it has no purpose, He gives us purpose. I started relying on God more and not on myself. He does have my best interests in mind. Camp for me is were a lot of my growing has happened, it is easier to make friends and just be myself. I have learned so much in my nine years at camp and a lot of it has stuck with me! Without it would have taken me longer to give my life to Christ! Everything makes more sense at Camp.
That pretty much summarizes what I learned or realized this summer! In order to trust someone, sometimes you need to go out on a limb and try!
A. also wrote a song this summer:
We Need You
When life get tough
Were can we turn?
I'm falling
Spinning out of control
We can't do this without you
We Need You
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
Life Keeps going
A roller coaster
Seeming to never end
This is life!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
When you don't want to live
When you want to self harm
When you want to run away
Run to Him!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need
This is life, not something we can do alone
There is pain
There is suffering
There is sin!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
When you have no were else to go
Run to Jesus
He is there
Run, run, run
To Him!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
We need you
We need you
You are everything
Everything we need!
We can't do this without you
We need you (x3)
I love you (x3)
PUSH was almost more fun than Impact for a few reasons. With PUSH, you got to know and work with everyone and your group became pretty tight. Despite the fact that we did a ton of cleaning, it was all in how you looked at that made it fun. If you went into it thinking it was going to suck then it did, but if you went in looking for all the fun you could have then you would have fun. I even had fun cleaning urinals. There was one time were we got this idea to go into the outdoor bathrooms like the FBI, so we grabbed our spray bottles and rags and brushes and that good stuff. We would have one person leading and one crouched with someone else holding a spray bottle over their head ready to fight the grime.
One morning our PUSH crew decided on what Koda would say if he could speak, it would go something like this [Kerry's note: Koda is Courtney's unusually faithful dog -- he's a bit of fixture around here and he's pretty obsessed with our squirrel population. And yes, that's a really old picture.]:"MOM MOM MOM, SQUIRREL, MOM MOM SQUIRRREL!"
or
"WHERE ARE WE GOING NOW? WHAT ARE WE DOING? SQUIRREL! WAIT UP!"
The craziness aside, God really spoke to me this summer. While I was at chosen skill, I had my camera so I started taking pictures and they turned out really nice so really it was God showing Himself through creation. He is all around and when we don't feel like He is there sometimes we need to look for Him instead of Him looking for us. I learned that I can't do anything on my own but that I need God, without Him our life will feel like it has no purpose, He gives us purpose. I started relying on God more and not on myself. He does have my best interests in mind. Camp for me is were a lot of my growing has happened, it is easier to make friends and just be myself. I have learned so much in my nine years at camp and a lot of it has stuck with me! Without it would have taken me longer to give my life to Christ! Everything makes more sense at Camp.
That pretty much summarizes what I learned or realized this summer! In order to trust someone, sometimes you need to go out on a limb and try!
A. also wrote a song this summer:
We Need You
When life get tough
Were can we turn?
I'm falling
Spinning out of control
We can't do this without you
We Need You
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
Life Keeps going
A roller coaster
Seeming to never end
This is life!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
When you don't want to live
When you want to self harm
When you want to run away
Run to Him!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need
This is life, not something we can do alone
There is pain
There is suffering
There is sin!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
When you have no were else to go
Run to Jesus
He is there
Run, run, run
To Him!
We can't do this without you
We need you
You are there even when we can't feel it
You are everything we need!
We need you
We need you
You are everything
Everything we need!
We can't do this without you
We need you (x3)
I love you (x3)
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