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Wednesday Awards

Today, the flash card awards were announced.  Here were the winners adding points to their team’s totals. Spelling Group 1 – Corenne Benson (Hot Pink) Group 2 – Sarah Carroll (Orange) Addition Group 1 – Carter Elkins (Orange) Group 2 – Elza Niemeier (Light Blue) Subtraction Group 1 – Evelyn Maudlin (Orange) Group 2 – Jacob Swift (Hot Pink)…

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It’s Carnival Time

One of the favorites of MSC Jr. Camp is carnival day.  Campers enjoyed carnival games and inflatable slides.  At the carnival, kids played for tickets to use for carnival prizes, cotton candy, snow cones and face painting. Here are some pictures from the day. Website: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com Blog Signup: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com/blog Text Alerts: text “@msc4kids” to “81010” Email: allthingsmsc@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/msccamp Instagram:…

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Wednesday Bible Study

Today’s Bible Study what focused on how to be strong – even when it’s hard. The boy’s lesson was led by Lance Wenck who helped the boys learn how to identify when challenges happen to them. He used the Disney movie, Inside Out and the emotion characters of Fear, Disgust, Sadness and Anger to know when you are having…

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MSC Jr. Camp – Junior Olympics

Our Jr. Olympics day has begun and the teams are all excited to compete for the final team points available.  Kids were assigned roles in the 50 / 80-yard dash, the team relay race and the obstacle course. The obstacle course consisted of the wheel barrel, caterpillar, a rebus puzzle, the chicken race, frisbee throw tic-tac-toe, the spittoon race,…

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Team Picture Day

Today is team day and we started the morning with team pictures, cabin pictures, and a camp picture.  Do you wonder how we coordinate 220 people for one big photo in the rain?  You do it quickly!     Website: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com Blog Signup: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com/blog Text Alerts: text “@msc4kids” to “81010” Email: allthingsmsc@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/msccamp Instagram: @allthingsmsc

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Wednesday’s Flagpole Devotion

Wednesday morning, our flagpole devotion was led by Justin Hall.  His topic was Being Strong When It Gets Hard. He talked about good examples we have in the Bible like Job who, regardless of his troubles, still praises God throughout. He also talked about bad examples we have in the Bible, like Peter when he denied Jesus 3 times….

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Team Scores from Tuesday

Here are the team standings after Tuesday’s events: 1st Place – Hunter 2nd Place – Hot Pink 3rd Place – Orange 4th Place – Light Blue 5th Place – Royal Blue 6th Place – Lime 7th Place – Green / Purple (tie) 9th Place – Red 10th Place – Navy Today is our big Jr. Olympics with many team…

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Staff at MSC Jr. Camp

Some of the many reasons that MSC Jr. Camp runs so smoothly is our directors, Tyson and Ryan Bacon and their amazing staff.  We would be remiss if we didn’t share a photo of each of them and tell them how much we thank their hard work this week. Website: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com Blog Signup: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com/blog Text Alerts: text “@msc4kids” to…

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A Little Rain Didn’t Slow Us Down

This afternoon we received quite a bit of rain at Shakamak, but it didn’t slow us down one bit.  As a matter of fact, it only made the afternoon more interesting. Here are some photos and a brief video clip from one of the soccer matches – the Hot Pink team vs. the Orange team.   Website: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com Blog…

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Meals at MSC Jr. Camp

One of the best parts of camp at MSC is meal time together in the mess hall.  So far campers and staff have enjoyed hot dogs and pizza for lunches and lasagna and Mexican for dinners.  It’s also a time when we get a chance to visit with each other and build friendships. Here are some pictures from our…

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