August 17, 2008

• This past week I was at Christian camp with my kids.  Monday - Thursday lunch was a junior high and high school camp for a few church youth groups along with our kids and then Thursday afternoon to Saturday was an elementary and kindergarten camp for just our kids.  The camps were fun and provided good bonding opportunities.  My kids are lacking spiritually though and weren't into worship as much as the kids from the other churches.  I was glad that they were at least able to witness some "cool older kids" from other churches worship from their heart.  Anyway, here are pictures from the first camp, most of them were from our play time since I only took my camera to one of the worship and small group times.

  Some of the boys gathering for the first worship... Korean camp style, no chairs

  

  My orphanage's pastor, Pastor Lee, giving the opening message

  

  The praise team... they're a praise team from some university in Seoul and some of them are only 19 or 20 years old... made me feel old.  They were good though.

  

  On the second day we carpooled to a local gymnasium for playtime

  

  One of the weird games we played... the kids had to keep big pieces of ice in their mouth and whichever team had the most ice remaining after 5 minutes or so won

  

  Soo Min is the boy to the left... he will reappear in a couple pictures...

  

  Do Hyun and Young Jin (boys to the right) preparing for tug-of-war

  

  Soo Min tug-of-war action shot... 

  

  In this game the boy had to run across all his teammates backs across the gym and then back

  

  My boys laughing

  

  At night we had a campfire and played a few games... Kyung Mi took this picture of me, two of my small group boys (Do Hyun and Min Ho) carrying Sun Ran... she had to fight against another girl and whoever would pull off the panty hose from the other's head first would win... we won, of course

  

  On the third day we spent some time playing in the pool... which mainly amounted to sneaking up and dunking each other

  

  Taking down Kyung Soo

  

  Soo Jin's turn... this girl just wouldn't learn not to splash at me.   Don't worry, the kids all had fun.

  

  Some of my boys egging me on... I'm a bit stronger then them so they would attack me in groups of four or five... those cheaters...

  

  Preparing to take him down

  

  With most of the girls from my home

   

  More playing

  

  My small group during the camp... my friend Kyung Mi (far left) led and I helped out

  

  This girl from some other church asked me to marry her but then found out I'm about 10 years older and made a face like, "Oh, he's that old???"  I'm getting old...

  

  The kids

  

  I'll post pictures next weekend of the cute munchkins from the second camp.  God bless!

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