Worships - Tuesday to Friday

Tuesday - Let Go of Control/Worries
So Tuesday which is our "Vespers" worship was a big hit this year.  The administration really liked, I think because it was simple yet we gave the Vespers a more specific topic.  Vespers worship is a worship done in the early evening, usually right after dinner that incorporates a lot of singing and joyful worshiping, lots of camps will do a Worship as if you were a Child type thing.  Ours was very much like a celebration as well.  We had our campers split into their six person Christian mission groups, which is the group we work with during the day.  Then we walked them down to the lake and presented them each with a helium balloon and a sharpie and had them discuss with each other something they needed to let go of control of and that they could write on the balloon.  Once every member of the group had written on the balloon they prayed over it and released it letting go of their worries/controls.  After that we had them come up to the pavilion to sing and dance, which was being decorated by a few of us staff members while they were down at the pond.  Definitely, one of my favorite worships and really super cool to do!

Wednesday - Letting Go of the Past
Normally most camps also incorporate a night where each staff members gives their personal testimony.  This is usually a late night worship and definitely more serious, a lot of campers call it the cry night, which we never specifically create a worship to make campers cry and honestly all of our worships are powerful in there own way and could effect people in different ways making them cry on any night.  We did this down by the pond as well and each staff member stood ankle deep in the water as we gave our testimonies.  This is because we gave each camper a marker and asked them at the end to write in one word something about their past that they needed to let go of and told them once they were ready to come and wash it away.

Thursday - Letting Go of the Future
This is worship in design was very similar to Sunday night's worship as it started with three speakers who each had a specific scripture to read about worrying about the future and they Jozy, MC, and Chelsea each talked about different worries of the future like Where, What, and Why and after they spoke we let each of the campers journal for about five minutes and then allowed them to each come forward and lay their future's at the foot of the cross.  Then we sing and the singing on Thursday was always super powerful.  Right after worship we had sharing on Thursday and that is the night I led sharing.  The Sharing on Thursday was really powerful most weeks.

Friday - Letting God guide your future!
Friday night worship is basically already mapped out for you, but it requires the most set up!  Friday worship we use luminaries and every single mason jar we own to really set the most powerful worship mood.  (However, on 2nd and 4th camp week we had a copperhead join us in worship and I most say that they kill the worship mood really quickly)  Anyways, we always have Holy Communion on Friday as well and part of my job as Lead Program was to make sure it got blessed.  I must say I had fun with that a few weeks, setting up appointments with local pastors can be tough! If you have a camper adult that is a pastor they can do Communion however, and that only happened for us one week, and I was setting up worship Friday afternoon and was like oh my goodness I never had communion blessed, but I had just forgotten that a camper was handling it that week... it was quite a good 15 minute freak out.  Then after Communion the Camp Director normally gives a personal story about following God, and then they tell the Fishhook story from a fishers of men perspective and we begin to commission all of our campers to go out and do God's work!  Giving Campers their fishhooks is honestly one of my favorite parts of the week.

The only other note on worship I might add is that we used the songs Never Let Go and I Will Follow as theme songs and I really recommend them if you have never heard them!  As well as All the Poor and Powerless, such a good song!