Lets start off by saying that we are the team that survived
two of the worst travel days in UW history. Don’t believe us, just ask Sam. We
are THE best region by far, sorry to burst your bubble Coach Andrew.
We started off camps in the lovely city of Yakima,
Washington! The morning camp was an all soccer camp and the night camp was an
outreach camp in the inner city. Coach Kelli did great at soccer, Coach Sadie
made Caleb do everything, and Coach Cindy mastered her British accent while at
the morning camp. At the night camp we heard what Coach Sadie insisted were gun
shots and what Cindy insisted were fire crackers (she was just being
optimistic) many times throughout the week. Caleb tried to take a joyride on a
golf cart while at lunch at a golf course, Sadie and Caleb both successfully
went joyriding on a moped (well it was at our host home), and that is just some
of the fun.
The night camp was rough the first day but ended up being
the hardest to leave. A lot of the campers parents were deep in the gangs and
if they weren’t the campers had a ton of influence to be in the gangs. We were able to see a few kids from that camp
ask Jesus into their hearts. They were so enthusiastic, joyful, and on fire for
the Lord and it was just a reminder of how we should feel about having Jesus in
our hearts. We got so attached to the kids there and it was such an incredible
experience.
We then left there to have camps in northern California by
having the most crazy day ever of training.
Wake up at 5am + Drive
3.5 hours in the opposite direction + Wait 2 hours + Fly 1 hour + Wait 4 hours
+ fly 2 hours too far + drive 2.5 more hours back = 15 hour travel day to go
708 miles.
We had morning camp in Cloverdale and our night camp was in
Novato.
In Cloverdale Cindy had 4 team 45ers 2 of which were 3 years
old, needless to say the kids hit the playground a lot. Sadie took claim of
Kelli’s cheerleaders, and Caleb had the Pastor and all the parents convinced
that Cindy grew up in London.
For the night camp it was an outreach camp that was a ton of
fun. On the way Kelli reworded the song
Mr. Roboto to say Domo Orrogato We’re going to Novato. It is now our them song…
Just kidding. On Monday we had a whole 7 campers at camp. 4 of which were
cheerleaders. We did end up growing and having about 30 by the end of the week.
They had cheerleading and then we alternated with playing huge games of
football and soccer. That attracted a lot of people. Caleb had to abandon his
team on Wednesday to be in a friends wedding so it ended up being the three
girls in charge.
Thursday started off great and we headed to Novato. Camp
went great and one of the campers who had never been to church asked Jesus into
his heart. Sadie and Cindy were going crazy and decided to dance around to you
rock my world, which we normally didn’t do.
We then were meeting with the volunteers afterward to discuss how great
things were when a gang fight broke out in the parking lot. Meanwhile our
camper who had just asked Jesus into his heart and his cousin witnessed the
entire thing, including seeing a gang member get stabbed. The cops came and the
gangs dispersed, some of them even ran right by us. Us u dubbers were the only ones who were
truly calm through the whole thing. The
kids were terrified but asked us to pray with them and for the hurt member. It was
really incredible for them to ask us to pray after what they had just
witnessed.
The camps ended great and we couldn’t have had a better
team. We only did about 50 u turns, laughed the entire trip, and had about 7
dozen cookies between the four of us. It
was a fantastic session and there are many memories from it!
There’s so much more to
Region 4!
Caleb, Kelli, Sadie, and Cindy
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