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How Camp Changed Our Lives | Trinity Talks Podcast
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode
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of Trinity Talks. My name is Kyla and I am joined
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here by two of our Camp Trinity staff. Camp Trinity
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is a day camp that runs here at Trinity for six
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weeks this summer and it's starting up tomorrow,
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so super duper soon. So yeah, excited to chat
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with you guys about what the summer is going
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to look like. Um, yeah, so maybe get just started.
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You can just introduce yourself, uh, say, you
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know, how long you've been working at camp and
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what your role is this year. So maybe we'll start
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over here. All right. Well, I'm Rylan. Um, and
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I am one of the assistant directors. I'm the
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assistant director for youth. Okay. And I have
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been technically a part of Camp Trinity for three
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weeks. Um, just brand new. I haven't done a day
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of actual camp yet. Um, cause it's my first year.
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So we've just had three weeks of, of preparation
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so far. Sure. That's where I'm at so far. I have
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a veteran over here. My name is Emma. I'm the
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supervisor of Big Kids this year, and I've been
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working at Camp Trinity for five summers now.
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Okay. Yeah. Very cool. And you said you were
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a camper before that, right? Yes, I was a camper
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before that. So this is like maybe like 10 years
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of camp for you? Oh, yeah, for sure. It's been
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10 years at Camp Trinity. Okay, that's awesome.
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So to clarify, you are the supervisor for Bigs.
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Yes. So like what is that age group? The Bigs
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age group are ages 8 to 10, so like grades 3
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to 5. Okay, and you're a supervisor for you.
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Yes. So what age group is that? Yeah. Youth will
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just go from grades six to eight. And then after
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that, once they've graduated grade eight, they
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have the opportunity to go on to being an LIT
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or just leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just go about
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their lives. Yeah, exactly. But a lot of them
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do end up being LITs. That's awesome. Just the
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junior youth age. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Camp Trinity
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starts at four? Four years old. Okay. So like
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we have some preschoolers who are coming up all
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the way to like grade eight. Yeah, exactly. So
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this is like a huge. age. group of people. Yeah.
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Okay. And I think you told me there's like 140
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some kids who are going to show up here tomorrow.
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The last I saw was 147 registrations as of Friday.
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Okay. There's definitely more, at least one or
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two, but probably like 10 or 20. Sure. Yeah.
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Okay. Very cool. Yeah. So they're all going to
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show up tomorrow morning. What does a typical
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day at Camp Trinity look like? So especially
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on a Monday, everyone comes in, kind of finds
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their age group, gets to know their counselor.
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We play some icebreaker games. And then my favorite
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part of the day, we go in for worship. And that's
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kind of when the whole camp, ages 4 to 12, we
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can all just come together and worship and sing
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our favorite songs and learn new dance moves.
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And then we come back for a lesson of the day,
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which the assistant directors and supervisors
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have worked super hard to kind of make them super
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fun and engaging and also knowledgeable. And
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then you kind of get to... play some like choose
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your own activity kind of we have soccer um like
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arts and crafts just dance you just get to play
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around with the counselors and then we kind of
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break for lunch and then at the end of the day
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or like in the afternoon we have like a fun trip
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so like the pool the inflatable water park um
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for the younger kids it's we're going to the
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farm so it's just a fun activity to kind of close
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off and end off the day and then It's home time.
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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like a pretty good
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structures. You all come together to get to do
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all these games, your Bible lesson kids. Yeah.
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I have the opportunity to like get to try lots
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of different things. Yes. Yeah. And then I think
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the day trips are probably the highlight. Oh,
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for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Is there like a particular
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day trip that like. you like is like your favorite
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they're like this is the coolest place to go
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i really think that the inflatable water park
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is the coolest place to go because you just see
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the creativity in all the kids i mean you get
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this big bounce structure in the middle of a
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lake and then you just get to see how much fun
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they have and like the new friends that they
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make oh my gosh you're close to me on this play
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structure come and play with me over here and
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you just get to see the whole group kind of come
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together and you see how much they love their
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counselors too because they're like oh my gosh
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please come play with me over here or you get
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to jump off into the lake and yeah it's just
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it's a fun time okay sure okay yeah and i know
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rylan you this is your first year at camp is
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there a certain trip or thing that you've heard
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about that you're like most excited for Honestly,
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I didn't know that the inflatable water park
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was on a lake actually until 10 seconds ago.
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So I think probably that, that sounds pretty
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awesome. Um, yeah, I have been told that the,
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cause yeah, the, the trips vary a bit based on
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age range. I've been told that the youth get
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to do some pretty cool stuff. So, um, yeah, that's
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a big one I'm looking forward to, I think is
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like the heavy inflatable water park. And, um,
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and then you're like tree top trekking and glow
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in the dark mini pot. Yeah. Yeah. Tree top trekking
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is another one. If I get to, I don't know if
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I get to actually do it, but just to see them
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having fun, cheer them on, challenge them. It's
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fun. Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be
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fun. I can't actually say I haven't been there.
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It will be. Yeah. So, um, is there anything that's
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like new or like different about camp this year
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compared to like past years? Um, I think a big
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difference, especially for the bigs is that we've
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separated them into bigs one. Oh, sorry. And
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bigs two. Okay. So we kind of did this because
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the, there's a lot of kids from ages eight to
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10. Sure. And we just kind of split them up so
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that they can kind of have, I don't know, more
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specialized like treatment and stuff and kind
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of all not be together, but you have. kind of
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only 35 kids, which is what all the other age
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groups are. And it was just with 70 kids just
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trying to move everywhere. I feel like the transition
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times just took so long. And so I think now we
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can just kind of get ready for our trip and then
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go instead of just waiting around for everyone.
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Cause I mean, with 75 kids all the time, you
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don't, you can't always know what they're going
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to do. Like five kids might want to go to the
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bathroom while the other 70 have to wait. But
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then with just like the 35 to 40 kids, you can
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kind of manage that a bit better. So yeah. everyone
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has a smoother summer camp experience. That sounds
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great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think like building
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on that, like learning over the years to be able
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to be like, okay, this is how we manage 150 kids
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who all show up at the same time. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Um, so why do you think
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that it's important for churches like Trinity
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to have a summer camp for kids? That's a good
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question. Yeah. This is the first time I think
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I've seen a have a camp this big, invest this
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much in a camp. I just think it's huge. I think
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it creates, it's a big outreach opportunity.
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You're way more likely to come to, as a kid,
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to come to a camp run by a church than maybe
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just a regular Sunday. Sure. And as a parent,
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I think you're still more likely, if you're unfamiliar
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with the faith or with faith in general, to...
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to be on board with something like this. Um,
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so I think there's that accessibility part of
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it, um, where it really brings kids into the
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life of the church a little bit. Um, there's
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also the continuity for, uh, for, for kids, for
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youth that are in programs throughout the year.
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And then, um, in the summer when like, you know,
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they, they might want to do camps, they might
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want to do, um, Some are things, right? But they
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get to stay connected with the church, with the
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people, the adults who've been pouring into them
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all year long. So I think with generally just
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continuing to be learning about the things of
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God, but also having fun, and especially I think
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a really big one is, again, just the relationships
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that are built with adults who are maybe either
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volunteering or staff that are just pouring into
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them. Yeah, that they get to be a part of their
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summer because summer is when many of our best
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memories are made. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But
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no, no, I think that's true that it yeah, it
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gives it's an outreach opportunity. But then
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it also is that continuity for the kids. Yeah.
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Who, you know, they need things to do in the
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summer and churches can provide that really meaningful
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space for them. Yeah. And I just want to say,
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too, that a lot of a lot of time that becomes
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like a kind of cycle like. like almost like a
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revolving door, like a kid might come to camp
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and then get involved and then even end up working
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here, but then we'll come to our youth group
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or we'll come, you know, so, um, that's cool.
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Like, you know, that's, that's awesome. That's
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the goal, right? Is like, um, introduce them
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to the faith. And if they're already at a church,
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that's awesome. Um, but a lot of the times these
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kids are coming from no real faith background
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at all. So it's like, it is a golden opportunity.
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Yeah. Yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. What would
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you sort of add to that? I would say like adding
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onto that, that it just built such a community.
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I mean, even coming from, I don't like Trinity
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is not my main church, but I just connect so
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many amazing memories here. And I just feel like.
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Even when I was a camper, I just felt all the
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love from everyone that did work here. And then
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I kind of got to grow up with that same community.
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And I think that having a camp within the church
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can kind of also guarantee that there's a lot
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more familiar faces for these children. If you
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come in, you kind of have a little bit of nerves
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on the first day. You can see someone that you
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see every Sunday at service. And I think that
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really builds more confidence in people. And
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I think that's what makes this camp so much fun
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because everyone just loves each other, is guiding
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with love. it's just here to have fun and you
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can kind of branch it both. Like you can come
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here during the year and then you can look forward
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to what this church will put on for you during
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the summer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like,
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when you think about your own sort of journey,
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you know, go from being a camper to LIT to the
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like staff, like, like how, how have you seen
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that like impact your life and your like relationships
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and faith? I think that I've grown a lot of confidence.
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I think Trinity was a very welcoming community
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to me and I kind of got to grow. as a camper,
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just enjoying all my experiences. And then I
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got that little bit of responsibility and then
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I got more responsibility. And then I had a full
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sense of responsibility here. And I think that
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that kind of allowed me to kind of see what abilities
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I had, my leadership skills, the confidence I
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had. I mean, I remember having no confidence
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as a little LIT, thinking that I wasn't useful.
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And then growing into a counselor being like,
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wait. lits are useful and then being a council
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a supervisor and then saying wow my counselors
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my lits are what makes this a community makes
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this a team and i think being a team is good
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but being a community makes the team stronger
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sure yeah yeah trinity's like really made a community
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of counselors not a team of counselors yeah yeah
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so not people who just like work together but
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people who actually care about each other and
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like have fun together and yeah yeah that's awesome
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yeah um rylan do you have a part of camp that
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you are like most looking forward to yeah i i
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one of them is is i'll just go off of what you
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just said emma like The community of leaders
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and just seeing how that impacts the kids. Part
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of the discipleship year program that I just
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finished, we were learning a bit about witness
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and how like in the early church witness and
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like even in the Christian writings, like in
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the New Testament, it was almost always. viewed
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as something that you do communally, right? It
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wasn't so much individuals going out and evangelizing.
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It was like that the goal is the church would
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just live a certain way and that in the community
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and that people would see that and be like, there's
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something different about these people. Right.
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And that's exactly what happened. That's how
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they grew. And I just think that's, there's something
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about. camp that I've experienced at another
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camp that I've worked at and, and just like seeing,
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um, yeah, how a team can become such a strong
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community and how, um, that just shines so much
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light on kids and truly does and helps them to
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feel secure, um, in the team that they're entrusted
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or that are entrusted with them. Uh, so I think,
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yeah, just, just getting to see, um, A team.
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God do really cool things through the team. And
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then, of course, like just seeing how that shapes
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the whole camp experience for the kids, because
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it always does. Yeah. Right. For better or for
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worse, whatever the team is, the community or
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lack thereof will will just bleed right into
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the camp experience for the kids. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And what about you? Do
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you have like a favorite part of camp? I think
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my favorite part of camp is worship. I mean,
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I get to just you get to kind of bounce around
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and hang out with all the campers. But I also
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really like choose your own activity because
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that's kind of a time where the kids get to kind
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of explore the church, see what the counselors
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have worked to put on for them. And then the
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counselors also get to play and have fun with
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their campers as well, because I think that's
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a really important part. It's one thing to just
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be there to supervise, but it's another thing
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to. welcome all the campers that come in and
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say i want to have fun with you i want to play
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soccer with you i want to help you build a bracelet
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or fly paper airplane i think that that's what
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differentiates someone's someone having fun or
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someone just attending a camp sure yeah yeah
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that the leaders aren't just there to be like
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here are the rules stay safe do these things
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now but they're like no let's like play let's
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like yes make sure that we're all having a good
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time together yeah and i think with um especially
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in the bigs age sometimes you just need to be
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that leader that would start to throw the paper
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airplane first and they'll be like, wait, that
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actually looks so fun. I'm going to do that as
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well. Right. That game was so fun. I think that
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someone just needs to take that initiative to
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say, this is super fun. We should all try it.
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Right. I think that's what makes being a counselor
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or supervisor so much fun. You just need to enlight
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fun, like lighten fun in everyone. Yeah. It's
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like fun is like. you know, top point on your
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job description. It's like, keep kids safe, have
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fun. These are the rules. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay, so obviously camp is a lot of fun. There's
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lots of really cool things happening. I'm sure
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that as staff, it's not always super fun, right?
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There are challenging moments as well. So maybe
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what are some of the challenges that you face
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or that you anticipate facing as camp staff?
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Yeah, I think it probably the biggest thing for
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me that I've faced working at camp is just the
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reality that life keeps going. Sure. We all have
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personal lives and stuff happens. Like I think
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as much as we have this idea of summer just being
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the time of just, you know, freedom and relaxation,
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like some really tough things can happen. And
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so just being able to like really regulate yourself
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and. Yeah. Just, just kind of take care of yourself
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holistically in the midst of the craziness of
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camp. Like an example, it's, it could be so easy
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when you're, you're done a day of camp, you come
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home and then you're just exhausted. Like you
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got nothing left in you and just kind of lie
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on the couch and then you have something to eat
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and then you just go to sleep and you wake up
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and it's time again. Like it can, you can fall
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into these bad cycles that make it hard for you
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to be. your best self for the kids right and
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then on top of that again life life keeps going
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so when you have other things you're struggling
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with um i think that can that can make camp really
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tough sure um but on the flip side i think just
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like having people um especially other people
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other coaches and other people in the same role
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having people to to be accountable with just
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to make sure that you're you're taking care of
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yourself you're checking and you're processing
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yeah the other stuff that you need to deal with
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so that you can be your best self sure bring
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everything to the table for camp is is everything
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but yeah i i've personally i've i've struggled
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with that a bit before and like the diet can
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can crash a little bit based on sure we're running
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around so much so yeah i think yeah it's it's
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exhausting right it's a lot of work that you
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put into like a lot of hours of the day but then
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yeah to also find that space where you can take
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care of yourself and make sure that you can show
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up really well the next day yeah exactly exactly
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it takes a lot of work to find that balance yes
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for sure so yeah what would you say about like
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what are some of the challenging bits of camp
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I would say that a main one is even though we
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can prep as much as we can, schedule everything,
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have a plan for everything, obviously not everything's
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going to go to plan. Like the weather might be
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too hot or might be raining or a bus might come
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super late or might leave super late so we're
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coming back to the church late. I think that
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the hardest part about that is just being able
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to communicate everything to the counselors for
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sure because you might be thinking it, like me
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as a supervisor, I might be thinking in my mind,
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I'm thinking to myself, okay, this is what we're
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going to do. But then it doesn't actually work
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out because I didn't tell anyone or I didn't
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feel like I had time to tell anyone. So I feel
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like the biggest part of that is just learning
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how to go with the flow a bit in actual camp
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and just learning to communicate, okay, we're
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not doing this anymore. We're going to leave
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30 minutes later. add this activity on. So I
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think just a big part is just learning how to
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communicate the new changes, not just the actual
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schedule, just the new changes as well. Sure.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Always being on top of things.
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Yeah. Yeah. Like there's a lot of kids to manage,
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but then therefore there's also a lot of staff
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to like communicate with and make sure we're
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all on the same page. And yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's
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a lot to handle. Yeah, I've seen not being on
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the same page and how just small mistakes would
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happen. Obviously, no one means to because you
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don't know the changes, but just be like, okay,
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instead of this taking two minutes to complete,
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it's going to take us seven because we all went
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the wrong way. Let's turn around. So I think
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that that's just the hardest part, just making
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the transition times a bit smoother, even when
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things don't totally go as planned. Sure. Yeah.
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Yeah. No, that makes a lot of sense. Okay, so
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given all of these challenges, all of these things
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that you're sort of looking forward to, what
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are some ways that folks at Trinity can be supporting
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camp and praying for you as leaders this summer?
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Yeah, I would say for energy. To go off of what
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I found most difficult and just God's grace,
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honestly, and God's grace and strength and wisdom
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to be able to pivot. And yeah, just to go in
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with the, I would ask for prayer that we can
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go in with just the right mindset to just not
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make it about ourselves, not make it about just
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making money or getting hours for the summer,
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but really about these kids and about showing
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them God's love, telling them the truth of Scripture
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and what an amazing story we can be caught up
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into. Sure. Yeah, I think, yeah, we ultimately,
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we've talked about a lot of the things that can
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be the difference between this just being another
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camp or a life changing experience. But I think
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ultimately it's the spirit of God. Just if God's
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presence is there, if it's orchestrated by his
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hand, it will be amazing. You know, and then
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so for us to just keep that in mind, you know,
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it's easy to forget what it's all about when
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stuff's going. not according to plan and when
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you're tired. Um, but yeah, just to continually
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remember and remember that God's strength is,
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has made perfect in our weakness. Right. Right.
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Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No lessons to like
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keep in mind for yourself and like be encouraged,
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but yeah. Then also to invite folks to be praying
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for you and to be offering encouragement when
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you, we see you on, on Sunday or, or whenever.
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Right. Yeah. Big time. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Encourage
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in terms of a practical thing, encourage, uh,
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encourage staff when you see them and yeah and
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also yeah spread the word too about um to kids
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and parents um about this camp because like ultimately
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however difficult it is it's a joy and it's a
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it's a blessing that we get to be a part of when
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we we want as many kids as possible sure um Yeah.
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Yeah. I don't know if I'll say that in week three
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when, you know, I got like a million on my hands,
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but I'll say it before. Yes. We want them all.
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We want them all. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Yeah.
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Yeah. What would you sort of add to that? How
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can folks be praying for, encouraging, supporting
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you? Well, I for sure, I want to bounce off what
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Rylan was saying, just kind of praying for the
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energy of the counselors, because I think that
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counselors showing up to. provide a service to
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provide fun for all the kids kind of really does
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make their summer. And I mean, even coming from
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my experience, I grew up with camp counselors
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who genuinely loved being there. And I think
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that's why I genuinely loved being at camp too.
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I mean, I waited all year for summer to come.
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Sure. And every year I was not disappointed as
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a camper, as an LIT, as a counselor. So I just
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think that the energy and the excitement from
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the counselors is really what can make a summer
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amazing for all these kids and all the kids that
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come to camp do deserve an amazing summer yeah
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so i do pray for or i hope that the church community
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can pray for like that health, well -being and
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energy of the counselors, because I think that
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they're the foundation of what makes this camp
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run so smoothly and why all the kids just love
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coming back. Yeah. Yeah. So we've talked a lot
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about like, you know, the fun bits of camp, the
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like really exciting and different things. But
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you also mentioned, you know, like worship is
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kind of your favorite part. And like, you know,
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you do these like Bible lessons every day. So
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like. How do you see the connections between
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like all of this like fun, crazy stuff that happens
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at camp and the like faith piece? Like how do
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they come together? What do you see is sort of
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valuable in that? I think that our lessons during
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the day, we also like to kind of talk about God's
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love and his how selfless he is. And I think
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that kind of comes back into. I find myself using
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the lessons from the day in behavior with kids.
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Sure. So when someone's doing something nice,
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I'll say, you know what, that was really nice.
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Or I like to kind of like bring positive to the
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things that I like to see. And then the things
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that I don't like to see, I like to touch back
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on the lessons as well. Sure. So I feel like
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camp isn't always just this go, go, go, like
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always doing activities. I think there's also
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time for reflection with the kids and also with
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our small groups that we do in our lesson times.
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We kind of like to let the counselors give the
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kids the floor. even the eight -year -olds, the
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nine -year -olds, you'd be surprised. They like
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to talk about what they're feeling inside. We
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kind of like to give them open -ended questions.
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And honestly, like when I first was doing a small
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group, I was like, they're nine years old. They're
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not going to want to participate, but they actually
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do. And if you show that you're going to listen
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to them, they're going to want to tell you how
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they feel about Jesus and how they feel Jesus's
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love and how they want to show up to camp. And
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I kind of like to put that into arts and crafts
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as well. So even just in the first week, I'll
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say it right now, but we're doing like a kindness
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heart. So we're going to make a heart and say
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how you want to show Jesus' love in your life
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or at camp. And then we're going to put it on
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the wall where you can eat lunch and see it.
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So I think that even though we're doing fun activities
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and we're moving around, there's always a reminder.
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Sure. Even me, myself, or the counselors like
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to kind of... put into the kids. Yeah. That,
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that like the values of your faith, the values
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of God and love and kindness, like are the things
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that drive you, right. Even in the really crazy
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moments, but then also in the quieter moments.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anything you would want to
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add to that? It's good. Yeah. Um, I think it
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just, they go hand in hand. Um, and God is a
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God of fun, a God of excitement and joy. Like
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really. And, and, um, yeah, I, I, Man, I don't
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know. There's so much. Your answer is really
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good. And I would maybe I would kind of add on
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a little bit to what Emma said. Like, I think
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any opportunity you have to connect day to day
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stuff to the message is awesome. Sure. And like
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particularly the messages that I'm really excited
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about, because we have like a kind of double
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lesson in a way every day where Megan's going
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to have. a teaching with everyone. Okay. And
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then we're going to break into our little smaller
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groups and then go into our own teaching. The
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supervisors would lead that. Okay. And it's just
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really cool because the way we're going to be
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doing it this summer is like an overview of,
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Megan will be talking about the character of
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God and what's sin all about and what does the
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cross mean and the resurrection and life with
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God and like five different points, like a format,
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but like using different illustrations and analogies
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and then. the supervisors and like the large,
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the dispersed groups will be looking at specific
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stories in the Bible from Abraham all the way
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to like Paul. Right. And how this, the character
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of God and the pattern sort of, you know, sin
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of God's mercy of like a death and resurrection,
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how that plays out again and again through the
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Bible. Sure. I just think that this is so important
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to like. to just to it goes hand in hand with
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camp is like this again this amazing um story
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that we are all so excited about yeah um to where
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like as much as the games and everything is so
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important that ultimately where our joy comes
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from is is god right you know and that the same
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god who you know asks people to do very difficult
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things um is also the god who yeah who loves
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play who wants to play with us i think like even
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if that this maybe seems a little crazy. I think
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it, uh, it can help tear down some of this stigma
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around our faith that like, you know, we're just
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super pious people and we, um, we just come together
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and sing songs and then go away and, you know,
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don't do any of the fun stuff that everyone else
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gets to do. It's like, no, that's not true at
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all. Yeah. So I, I don't know. I just see it.
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It just goes hand in hand. Maybe that's because
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I grew up in Christian camps and everything,
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but. Yeah. No, I think that totally makes sense.
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Right. And I think you're right that God is in
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our joy. God is in our play just as much as God
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is in the like serious moments and the like behavior
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correction and the like all of those things.
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Yes, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Okay. So
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if there are some kids who are listening, who
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are like, I don't know if I should come to Camp
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Trinity. Maybe it's cool, but maybe these people
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seem really lame. Okay, what is your message
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to the kids who are, like, coming to Camp Trinity
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or who are maybe still thinking about coming?
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First of all, ouch, if they think we're lame.
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Do you have something else? I don't know why
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I processed that wound. Well, you processed the
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wound. I would say that Camp Trinity, no one
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here is lame. I think that we all... We're all
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counselors that just want to have fun as well.
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And I mean, we're all a big community and we
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want to have fun with you. I mean, if I'm talking
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to that one kid, we want to have fun with you.
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We want you to come and hang out with us and
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have this fun summer with us. And we're not going
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anywhere. We're here. We're going to have all
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of these activities and we're here to play with
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them. But I think that. you should give us a
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chance i mean we're all gonna show up we're gonna
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put our best foot forward we're gonna show up
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with the best summer energy and i feel like you'd
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miss out if you didn't give us at least one week
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of your time okay sure it's a real good tails
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pitch right there anything you'd add to that
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rylan yeah i would just say like a simple summary
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if i can is that like um it's really a place
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for uh the church and the unchurched people to
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come um And it is really for everyone. It's run
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by people who take the Bible seriously, who take
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God's love seriously, and who want to show it
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to you. But it is for everyone. And something
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I was saying to some of the LITs is whatever
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you end up coming here for, you're going to get
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so much more out of it. Sure. So for them, it
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was like, well, you're coming here for hours
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because you're... Parents forced you or whatever.
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You're going to get so much out. But the same
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goes for kids. You might come here for fun. And
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if you want to have fun, come here. You're going
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to get that at bare minimum. You are. But then
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you're also going to get so much more. You're
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going to build friendships. You're going to get
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to see some really special things in your leaders
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and just the care that's been put into this whole
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program. So yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna
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get, uh, what is it? The bang for your buck.
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Yeah. Yeah. You get the fun, you get the community,
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you get some Jesus. Yeah. Just like all of these
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pieces that we're all looking for is like, whether
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you're looking for a place to send your kids
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away so you don't have to worry about them, whether
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you're looking for a place to have lots of fun
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and adventures to make new friends, to like,
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yeah, get some of that, like, you know, Christ
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centered love and community. All of those things
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are available at Camp Trinity. And I think that's
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what makes it really special. Yeah. And I think
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for kids, too, especially growing up, you kind
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of want to find a place where you can belong.
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And I think that Trinity is just the place where
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you feel like you will fit right in. I mean,
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all the counselors here, we want you to be here.
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So we'll leave. I hope that every camper that
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comes to Camp Trinity leaves on Friday feeling
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like they were meant to come to this camp and
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they belonged at this camp. I think that that's...
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our main mission for the summer for sure. Sure.
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Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Everyone has a place
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at Camp Trinity. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank
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you so much, guys. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.
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And thank you for tuning in to this week's episode
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of Trinity Talks. Whether you are a kid or a
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parent or just someone who's interested in camp,
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someone who comes to Trinity, I hope that you
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feel encouraged that you come. Join us this summer
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and that you pray for our staff and leaders as
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they go through this really challenging, really
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beautiful, really amazing, joyful, fun summer
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together. Yeah. We will see you again next week.