By: Mo-T Wilks
It snowed here at camp the other day. Actually, it snowed two days in a row. It was pretty exciting. It has also been very exciting carving pumpkins and doing some trick or treating with the school groups that are here this week. Do you know what else is exciting? This Sunday’s Gospel reading!!! (more…)
By: Mo-T Wilks
Last Friday a group of summer staff and year round staff went to Pewaukee to see Matt Maher in concert. The concert was at Queen of Apostles parish and it was free! For those of you who don’t know, during the summer of 2007 we used Mr. Maher’s song, Welcome to Life as our theme. It is a great song, touching on many different aspects of our faith. We even have high school retreats here during the year that we call Welcome to Life retreats. Since then many of our staff have become even more interested in Matt Maher’s music. (more…)
By: Sara Knutson
Howdy Camp Gray folks!
Here’s a great quote from a student at St. Luke’s in Plain, here in late September for a leadership retreat:
How did you connect with God while you were here?
Hope all of your weeks are going well! God bless! –Sara
By: Bill Van Wagner
Hello friends, this is Bill reporting once more. Finally, folks, the verdict is here. The answer to all your burning questions has arrived. By the end of this post you will be shocked to find out the how the twisting tragedy of the misplaced campers ends. (more…)
By: Amy Baker
Hi everybody! This is Amy writing to you again. The weather has turned crisp and most of the leaves are on the ground. Life around here is still hopping, though. As I write this, there is a group on camp in the middle of Super Crazy Fun Time. (It needs to be said loud and quickly.) SuperCrazyFunTime! Anyway, here is the devotion for this week: (more…)
By: Amy Baker
Hello, this is Amy writing to you this week and lots of exciting things have been happening here at camp. Not only are we having a beautiful fall with the leaves changing, but we’re just coming off a great retreat with some students from St. John Vianney! The devotion for this week comes from the Gospel of Matthew. (more…)
By: Mo-T Wilks
Here at camp we like all things Pork: hotdogs, ham, pork chops, pork tacos, pulled pork, pork tenderloin, spam, sausage, pork kabobs (also known as porkabobs), pork jerky, pork pizza, pork gumbo, porkabello mushrooms, and especially, BACOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!! Unfortunately, that is not what this post is about. It is actually about our staff trip to the Porcupine Mountains. They are not actually mountains, but close enough for us. This area is commonly referred to as “The Porkies”. Some of you readers may know, however, that the cool thing to do is to leave key syllables off of certain words. Hence, we began to refer to our trip as going to “the Pork.”
In the days preceding our trip one could often hear these words falling off the lips of the volunteers, full time staff, and some summer staff who joined us. “I can’t wait to go to the Pork!” was our cry. But first, there were some preparations that had to be made. We needed to pack our bags with all of the 10 essentials (things you need to take on every camping trip), group gear such as tents and food, and a finger bullet (a nerf type toy you can launch at your friend).
I think Sean and Andy are actually trying to fit a small person into this bag… (more…)
Whew, it’s been awhile since we’ve had a chance to post on the blog! Prepare for a whole spat of posts in the next week or so… hooray!
Let’s start with some great quotes from the students at St. John Vianney school in Janesville, who have been here the past few days for environmental and leadership learning. They were fantastic, and they took equally fantastic lessons away from Camp:
How did you connect with God while you were here?
What did you learn about yourself and/or being part of a group?
We’ll be back with more of the camp goings-on soon!