“Rock Your World Concert” was last night and it rocked! It actually rocked “heaps” as many of our New Zealand staff members would say. There were campers and staff jumping up and down everywhere, Russ and the Quixotic band were playing some of the best Q-Town songs from the past 15 years, Kick Flip Cafe was cooking their famous build your own Q-Dog, the Tuck Shop was in Q-Town full of treats and more!! I asked Carson from Cabin 29 what his favorite part of the concert was and he said this: ” I love the song ‘Light the fuse’, my favorite part is when the fireworks go off back stage during the song! It startles me every time, but it’s so awesome!” Campers love the concert and hanging out together listening to great Christian music that shakes their soul!

We are right in the middle of the last day of Junior High #4 and it has been a fantastic week so far.

I was just out on the main field as the big race was about to start! This relay race is as epic as it comes as it involves almost everyone at camp and a good portion of the whole camp property! Campers and counselors spread out from the challenge course all the way to the tip of the Aqua Park to get ready for the big race called “To Infinity and Beyond!” I asked Stevie-G what the race course looks like for today and he had this to say: “Well we start off at the qrok tower and then onto the marshmallow toss at Club Coco, then off to the challenge course followed by the chariot and pop chug on the main field, the race continues down to the beach with a kayak and tube race, up the stairs, back to the main field where the water relay awaits and then for the grand finally a team pyramid!!!! It’s going to be a great race!”

We have a little bit of time before the race begins as the blue team is still getting ready…let’s take a walk down to the start line to talk with some campers!  Caliegh is in Cabin #1 and she is on the blue team,  I asked her and a friend beside her what the strategy was to win the race and she had this to say as she looked over at me with excitement in her eyes: “Run fast, don’t trip and have fun! I can’t wait!!!”

Stan Parker our camp speaker is in the race too! I caught up with him at his section of the course and I asked him if he was ready to make his team proud and what he was thinking about to get himself ready.  Stan had this to say: ” If I had one tenth of the energy of one of these campers I could power a generator that could power the world with electricity forever!”  I love camp speakers! I asked Stan what he has been enjoying most about Q-Town times with the campers, “I love sharing how incredible God’s love is and how he loves each and every one of us in a very personal way, it’s been a really awesome week and I’m loving every minute of it!”

Ok, it’s almost time! The camp counselors are cheering on their campers, the campers are rearing & ready to go, counselors are ready! Stevie-G is about to start the race!  And they’re off! What a race!! You’ll have to ask someone from Junior High #4 who won! But I can say this – Stan, Carson and Caleigh made their team proud and ran a great race!

What’s next? After a tasty lunch the campers will soon be at Open Activities from the challenge course to Qwanoes Beach.  Something else special coming up this afternoon is our weekly skateboard competition with campers impressing the judges with every trick they know!

Thanks Junior High #4 campers for a great week!

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