Camp Week 1 - Worships

So as a Lead Program one of my most important jobs is to facilitate worship and really be the staff member who makes sure everything is prepared and set worship as well as making sure worships are logistically sound.  Well as this being our first camp week this was the first time we ran through every worship and although we did run into a few technical and transitional difficulties, I really do believe every worship was phenomenal and certainly had the potential to impact our campers in amazing ways!  As previously mentioned our worships were designed around the theme of Let Go and Let God, so Sunday night was about letting go of expectations and letting God guide your path.  This worship allowed our campers to paint an expectation onto a sheet and then as we read scripture where Abraham, Peter, the Samaritan, and Mary had expectations we tore down pieces of the sheet to reveal a new sheet with the a cross and the phrase "Let God" painted on it!  Cool?  I know!  Monday nights worship, consisted of a skit of an average high school girl in which we tried to show it is important to Let go and Be Real to who you are and to who God made you!  Tuesday night we went with our classic Vespers worship, which is traditionally an early evening worship that is upbeat and contains a lot of singing!  In this worship we utilized a balloon theme and asked them to write things they need to control on the balloons and then we let them rise into the sky and let go of our controls to God.  Our Wednesday night worship focused on letting go off our pasts, which was our testimony worship and gave the campers a chance to come talk with any staff members if need be.  Thursday nights worship was Letting go of our futures!  We had the campers do a little journaling about their futures and then asked them to lay it at the foot of the cross because God has our futures in His hands.  And lastly, Friday night was the commissioning of our campers to truly Let God lead in their lives!  Needless to say I think our worships were quite powerful and I truly saw God come alive in our campers specifically this week in our Vespers worship when the singing was phenomenal as well as the Thursday night worship, which Sharing immediately followed (a time to talk about where you saw God in your day) and the campers really opened up about their days.  Sharing is also something that we do everyday and it is really in and of itself another form of worship where our campers can share about their days!