Jul. 25, 2008
Creation Camp

The week of June 7-11, the kids and I attended a week-long Creation Camp at OneLife, a ministry our friends have.  It was a joy to spend all week with them, helping them with the camp.  We got to know them even more, which was such a blessing.  I worked at a camp in college and realized once again how much I love camp life.  The fellowship with the staff is so uplifting and seeing everyone pour into the kids encouraged all of us and gave us strength (His strength!) all week. 

Our friend, Brent, who ran the camp, did Nature Study and did a fabulous job.  He was able to find a King Snake prior to camp starting and gave it a home that week so the kids could see her up close and personal.  We were surprised to come into the barn one morning (where we had worship and nature study) to see 4 eggs in the corner of her terarium.  Later in the week, Brent let all the kids hold it (all who wanted to -- all the girls did, including our Darling Daughter who had no qualms about it).

King snakes are named so, as they eat other snakes, especially the poisonous kinds like cottonmouths, rattlers, etc -- they are immune to their venoms!  Some people think that the snake from Aaron's staff was a king snake, since it devoured the Eygtian magician's snakes in Pharoah's court. (Genesis 7:8-13)

Kids enjoyed worshipping and singing, and all become very close-knit during the 5-days.  Darling Daughter is the 2nd from the left and Little Man is belting it out 2nd from the right.

I had the priviledge of doing the Bible teaching.  During that time, we focused on the 6 days of creation, dinosaurs, and Noah's Ark.  Our family has learned a lot about those things over the last year, so it was great fun to pass on God's truth to the kids.  Answers in Genesis has wonderful studies that I used as visuals for the kids and we talked about each day in depth the first 2 days.  It was neat to see how the first 3 days God created the "spaces" (Heavens/Earth, Sky/Water, Land/Water into Seas), and Days 4-6 He filled them (Sun/Moon/Stars, Birds/Sea Creatures, Livestock/Creeping Things/Beasts of the Field/Man).

Darling Daughter sat next to me as I reviewed with the girls the days and the items we drew in each section.  We went over this for several days and every kid now has a solid understanding of what was made when, and how a little how evolution cannot be correct, as it has birds evolving after dinosaurs, etc.

On Wednesday, we read from Job 40-41 and discussed how although the word "dinosaur" is not in the bible (since it was invented until the 1800's, while the KJV was traslated in the 1600's), the words "dragon, behemoth, and leviathan" are.  We read each verse and the children drew pictures from what was described.  I also shared with them some facts from "The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible."  They were really surprised that dragons were indeed real, not a myth as they've been lead to believe, and that they were seen up to the 1500's.  The boys also thought it was very neat that the royal family in China had them to pull their chariots.

Thursday and Friday, we discussed Noah's ark.  We talked about what a cubit was and although some references say a cubit is 18.5", while the Babylonian cubit was 24".  Using the both cubits, we measured off in feet.  Seeing it on the land, it was amazing how large it was!  I shared with them some information from http://www.worldwideflood.com/.  I also showed them the hydroplate theory video; I also highly recommend the free download videos from www.dr.dino.com.  (Our family watched the series from netflex.)

 The last day, we went out on a raft trip on a tidal creek that is on the Camp's property.  We saw alligators, herons, ibises, barn swallows, red-tailed hawks, and more.  The kids helped the rowers by adding a "feet-powered motor."

 Our friends' daughter, who is about 9 months younger than Little Man, enjoyed having her friends spend the whole week at her house, as we slept in their spare bedroom.  The kids climbed their fabulous cherry tree in the front yard, challenged each other to races to the barn, snuck tomatoes to snack on from the garden, and just enjoyed being together.

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Jul. 25, 2008 - That camp looks really neat

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