NWOCYC

My new computer has arrived! Hurray!

Words cannot describe how relieved I am to hold technology again. Thanks to my father, and my birthday, I am the proud owner of a new laptop. Woohoo!

There hasn't really been a lot to be missed since I haven't been blogging, except the church camp that I've attended over the past month, and will be attending again this upcoming Saturday.

Northwestern Ohio Christian Youth Camp is the name of it, also known as NWOCYC for short. I've been attending this camp since I was eight years old, and it's changed my life drastically; truly it has. It's a week long summer camp. You arrive as a camper on Sunday afternoon, and then leave the next Saturday afternoon, so I suppose it would be a little less than a week. 

Anyways...

Let me show you around...

One of my favorite parts of camp, my favorite places, one of my retreats would be the campfire, also known as fire circle at camp. It's a place that the entire camp meets every morning, and every night. In the morning we have a prayer and a morning lesson to get us ready for the day, we sing a couple of songs and off we go! At night we come together to praise God. It's so powerful feeling so close to Him as you sing and pray, it's one of my most treasured memories.

Now let me introduce you to MY week at camp:

  

  

This week was actually my first week at Tim's all ages week. I didn't know anyone except for a couple girls I had met who went to Jeff Slater's week with me. So going to a whole new week was extremely intimidating and scary for me, especially because I'm used to knowing everyone that I'm at camp with! Which tends to happen after spending a week every year for twelve years with those people. But this week was totally new to me. After about Wednesday I started becoming really close with a couple of the girls and older adults, and by Friday I didn't want to leave. That's what is so powerful about this church camp...you come out of the world into a retreat with people you may have never met before, and you leave with new brothers and sisters. It's breathtaking how God works at this place.

Now - allow me to save the best for last.

We received THREE new brothers, and ONE new sister in Christ this week. FOUR baptisms in one week. God is so good.

Also: I got to mark something off of my bucket list while I was at camp!
Item number 31: Lay in the road in the middle of the night

While I was at camp we went stargazing twice. We all grabbed pillows and blankets and went out to the middle of the country road which leads into our camp and all laid down while we listened to music and gazed up at the stars. It was so unbelievably powerful people, you have no idea how close you feel to God while you're gazing at the sky. It was perfection.

Well, that is the end of my camp stories until next week!
I just wanted to share a little bit of my heaven with you all!

lico,
Megan