There’s nothing like a Sunday at camp! Our weeks fly by with bustling activity and often far-off adventures, but Sundays are for fun, play, rest, and community worship.
SLEEP-IN and DONUTS
The chimes of our valley bells direct the lives of campers and staff constantly throughout the week… except early Sunday mornings 🙂 Things start slowly on the Sabbath morning. There is no required attendance to anything until mid-morning when we line up for Chapel. Of all our Sunday traditions, sleep-in and donuts may be the most celebrated and “delighted in”! Our dining hall bustles with card games and the shuffling of slippers and pajamas as our campers relax over a delightfully sweet array of Sunday morning treats.
CHAPEL
For both Kahdalea and Chosatonga, Chapel is the anchor of our Sunday morning. This staff-lead service includes skits, scripture readings, testimonies, and a talk from the director. Themes for each chapel are prayed over by the staff the week before, and, while Chapel does hold a certain reverence at CKC, there is also a lovely playfulness present as the Gospel is preached.
CABIN TIME AFTER CHAPEL
After Chapel, campers and staff alike gather in cabin groups to pray and reflect together on the previous week and on the message shared in our Chapel service. This is a crucial moment of intentional remembering in which our campers are encouraged to write what comes to heart in their CKC Passport, a special journal outfitted with diary space to write in after each Sunday morning spent together.
Following our midday meal which is opened and closed by songs we only sing on Sundays, Catholic campers can attend a Mass held in our gymnasium at Kahdalea while the rest of our camp community enjoys our routine rest hour after lunch with an added opportunity for games in our Dining Halls.
LAKE DAY
After Mass and rest hour, our Kahdaladies take to the lake! Lake day is an opportunity to hang with friends, catch up on a good book, have some deep, meaningful conversation, and splash and play on a warm summer afternoon. Whether our girls are on the high or low dives, the rope swing, with water slide, the water trampoline, or our canoes, kayaks, or stand up paddle boards, there is something for everyone at Lake Day!
FRIENDSHIP COUNCIL
During Friendship Council at Chosatonga, the world stands still for just a little while. Our boys are free of their regular goal oriented hustle and bustle and they are encouraged to focus on the gift of “being” together. There are rare windows of opportunity in the modern world where friends and family gather and there is no agenda or to-do list apart from enjoying some down time and savoring one another’s presence. Well, Friendship Council provides just this. As you see from the pictures above, our boys take the opportunity to catch up with old friends, toss a frisbee or play ball, and just “waste” time together. This “wasting” is often where the richest friendships form 🙂
CAMPFIRE
While the Chosboys enter their happy flow state at Friendship Council, our Kahdaladies descend upon a beautiful grove in a deep wood where a raging fire burns. Campfire captures our imaginations with marvelous songs sung in glorious harmony, stories told for generations of CKC listeners, inspiring speeches, special awards ceremonies, and moments held in sacred reverence. These treasures around the fire center us and help us set sail for the coming week!
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
No pictures available for this event as it would not feel right to have a camera in the chapel as the songs are sung, but there is a sweet cherry on top of every Sunday. Our Praise and Worship nights are held in our indoor Chapel at Kahdalea and it is a completely optional event. Nonetheless, there is standing room only and often our worship nights spill down the stairs into the evening stillness. This is a time of special community prayer which buttresses the hearts of our young ones as they prepare to go back to the school year and beyond. Returning to the simplicity of praise at the best time of our day on the best day of the week does have a way of putting things in just the proper perspective. We keep you and your intentions in prayer on these evenings of worship, too! Please pray for us as well.