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Crafts at MSC Jr. Camp

Morning activities started right after cabin clean-up and one of the many activities campers do here is crafts.  Ms. Dayna, our craft director, has some amazing things planned this year.  Campers are making yarn art, leather bands, bubble blowing canisters and fortune cookie cuffs and team glitter gel.  The kids are loving it! Website: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com Blog Signup: https://www.midwestsummercamp.com/blog Text Alerts:…

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Monday Morning Flag Pole / Singing

Each morning at camp the campers gather for a flag pole devotional and then line up for breakfast to sing hymns together. This morning, our flag pole devotion was led by compadre, Devon Boone.  His topic was Be Strong – make good friends.  He told them the importance of making good friends and the example we have in the…

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Sunday Night Games Are In the Bag

Camp activities started Sunday night with some great old-time favorite games: Hula-hoop relay, three-legged race, between the leg shuffle, and sack race. Here are the team scores results after Sunday night: 1st Place – Hunter / Orange (tie) 3rd Place – Hot Pink 4th Place – Lime 5th Place – Green 6th Place – Light Blue / Purple (tie) 8th…

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Introducing Jr. Week Team Captains

On Sunday night, campers began camp by meeting in the amphitheatre to meet their team captains for the week. I’m not sure who gets more excited about camp — the campers or the team captains! Below are pictures of the 10 team captains. 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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MSC Jr. Camp Has Begun

We had a great start to a Jr. Week today.  Beautiful weather, great food and best of all, Christian friends. To start the week, we asked some of the campers what is the best thing about MSC Jr. Camp. Here’s what they said. 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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And the Winners Are…

Well, MSC 2015 Sr. Week has drawn to a close!  🙁  With 204 campers, this is the largest Sr. Week MSC has had since prior to the creation of Jr. Week (which is for campers aged 8-11). The awards have been handed out and the goodbyes have been said.  Everyone is leaving Shakamak with tons of wonderful memories and friendships…

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Saturday Morning Flagpole — “Be Strong”

Security staffer Ken Evans and the Cabin 10 boys led the discussion around the flagpole this 4th of July morning.  America’s Independence Day is a day of pride for Americans.  We know that it takes a strong army to defend a nation.  It takes a strong Christian to defend his/her soul.  The only person who can knock you out…

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Good Saturday Morning from MSC

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Good Friday Night from MSC

Well, we’ve come to the close of the last full day of MSC 2015 Sr. Week.  It was a great team day full of activities and it ended on a high note as Last Year Campers reminisced around the campfire following the lip sync competition and a presentation from Chase Cleary about his recent preaching trip to Nicaragua this evening….

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A Villainous Lip Sync Competition

The 2015 Lip Sync competition took on a villainous theme with songs from Disney villains, the Muppets, the Lorax, and even the Grinch.  Each team put in LOTS of hard work and it really paid off as it was a great evening of performances. Extra kudos to the Red Team for patiently enduring technical difficulties of broken speakers as…

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