Going into this week, my team and I knew it was going to be a small camp. Although the church we were partnering with had around 900 people in their congregation, they had less than 30 kids registered. Not only that but no one in that 900 congregation was willing to billet to my team so we all stayed at Katie's place which was pretty far from the field. Upon arriving, we knew that this camp was going to be a bit of work even with so little kids. The church hadn't really put much work into the camp, and didn't have very many things prepared, in fact the coordinator was on vacation and not even at camp.
We only had a few volunteers but they were really good for the most part. The camp ran really well too, the challenge I usually find with smaller camps is there's a lack of energy. Kids feed off each others energy, so when there are a lot of kids, camps are usually more exciting. Having said that, this camp was pretty good, the kids really got into the stuff we were doing. Small groups went great too, it was nice having some volunteers that week that actually participated in the small groups. We had a few kids in the group that decided they want to be on God's team and thats always really exciting. Overall the week went great, I think the volunteers were really happy with how the camp went and they wanted to do it again, hopefully they'll have another camp in the future with more kids.
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