We just returned from SHASTA!! Chris and I had a fantastic week with the youth and leaders. I will start with Chris' favorite parts of the trip.. He loved teaching God's word and talking and praying with the kids. Chris was the camp speaker this year and we spent the week discussing the signs of the Messiah in John's gospel. In the mornings we looked at the promises of the Messiah and in the evening we saw fulfillment. The kids really enjoyed this and said it was quite different than past camps. Back to the begining: We loaded up and headed out Tuesday morning with about 130 students and 25 leaders. We began our journey to Shasta Lake, CA. The first evening we stayed at Parkway Christian Center. We completed our trip the next morning. We finally arrived at sunny Lake Shasta Wednesday afternoon, loaded up the house boats, and headed to dock at our home for the week. The kids started every morning doing devos that Chris wrote. After devos we made breakfast and prepared for rec time. Big shout out to the rec crew for some INCREDIBLE games. The funniest was of course the bellyflop contest from the top of the house boats. After rec was free time. We were able to spend some really great quality time with the students. After free time each boat prepared their own dinner. My boat had the boys boats over to cook for them a few nights. The evening services were the best! Worship under the stars and hearing Chris teach the students was definately the highligght for me! Each moring and afternoon the kids also had the opportunity for tubing and wakeboarding. I was able to hop on the boats the last day for that. I was so sore on the ride home! Bathing in the lake was the most interesting part of the trip. I never realized how much I take my shower for granted. Overall it was an incredible week and we saw many lives changed. One student in particular came to Shasta as an Atheist with no hope. He left camp as a believer in Christ and SO excited about it! There are many other stories similar to this one of Kids retuning home with faith in Christ. We will be having baptisms at church soon for those students! Also want to give a shout out the the leaders from the week. They all did an incredible job connecting with and ministering to students. Overall we only had 3 people get hurt! Praise the Lord! We look forward to many more years at Shasta.