7/11 Night at Falls Road

Hi guys! I am a little on the tired side this morning. I have good reason to be though. The youth group went to a youth rally last night from about 7 to 11. We played about a weeks worth of camp games in a night!

The First game was Bombardment. For those of you unfamiliar with The Anchorage Camp games let me explain the rules. It is played a lot like dodge ball. If you get hit by a ball that hasn't hit anything else you are out. If you catch the ball thrown by someone else and catch it before it hits anything else the person who threw it is out. If you get hit in the head, the person who threw it is out. The point of the game is to knock a duck pin (short squatty bowling pin) off of a traffic cone on the other side of the gym. Now, if you have gotten out, you can get back in. How? When your team members catch balls you are allowed to get back in, one at a time in the order that you were gotten out. We lost all but one round of this game.

The Second game was Poop Deck. I am pretty sure everyone has played that so I won't go into the rules. If you don't know how to play just say so and I will explain them then.

After this we ate and Mr. Aaron Burk did a devotional from Deuteronomy 7:11. "Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them." He talked about how we don't like rules. Even when we want to do something and then when we get told to do it, we all of a sudden don't want to do it at all! But, when a relationship comes first the rules all of a sudden don't matter. We will follow them to keep that relationship going. So, we should WANT to follow the rules and guidelines we are given by God because our relationship should be the priority.

The third game we played was called Chicken Murder. It is played with rubber chickens and a rubber bass. The bass is for bonus points and doesn't show up till the round is almost over. It is played similar to basket ball in the sense that you can only take two steps with the chicken in your hand before it is passed. You can't dribble rubber chickens...You score by hitting the chicken./bass on the backboard. You get a bonus point if the chicken subsequently goes into the basket of the bball goal. I have a nice scar from that game. Hannah caught me with her nail across the side of my face. My team lost this game horribly.

The Last game we played was Medic. Very similar to bombardment in the way you get out. The way you get back in in this game is there is a person who is the "medic." When you are hit you sit down and wait. The medic is supposed to come around and tag you and you can get back in. The point of this game is to get everyone out. So you have to keep your medics alive. Makes it quite interesting. My team lost that game too. I was not on a very good team.

We had a blast though! It was so much fun! I can't wait to do something like that again!

Thank you to the Seniors of Falls Road for hosting it! Thanks also to Pastor Mike and Mr. Aaron for running the games!

Btw, thanks for the comments! Keep them up! :-)