Dolfin cabin day 3

Needless to say day 3 started with most of our students wanting nothing to do with getting out of bed. I of course had to get up supper early to help with the making of pancakes and bacon (thanks to Taylor for being my co-Baconator for the morning). After breakfast everyone was forced into cleanup duty at gun point (well, water gun point at least), and they actually did a pretty good job. As bad as we made the Dolfin's property look (and we did make it look like a hoard of children raised in a pasture had come through) I have to say the students cleaned up fairly well. Students then had a chance to prove their memorization of scripture, which was the final part of our competition. Our group memorized something like 225 Bible verses, which comes out to about 10 per student. Not only did they have to memorize them, but also state what that verse meant to them. It was awesome to see so many students passionately speaking about verses they selected. Our time at the cabin concluded with our final worship session, and despite it being early the students again danced and sang with all their energy. I'm writing this three days later and some students still don't have their voices back. We went ahead and skipped the message because, frankly, what needed to be said and heard had been done by the Spirit the night before, so it was no time for me to muddle with God's work. The bus was then packed and headed for Fazolli's, where the results were given. Dan's team ended up with an incredibly thin margin of victory, and earned the right to split $100. Thanks again to all the leaders, the Dolfin's, the bus company, and everyone else for a amazing weekend. Thanks especially to the students for giving new things a try and really opening themselves up to God. I'd say next year can't come quickly enough, but we've got two more trips to Silver Birch to get excited about before that!