Flashback - 60's Dance Party

This year's theme for the Tuesday night dance was the 1960's. As usual, our students did not disappoint. Time was well spent shopping a Goodwill, tie-dying t-shirts, and "bumping" hair. We were a groovy lookin group.

We had a good variety of 60's fashion. One highlight from was the Scooby-Doo inspired group of Jamison, Sarah, Lindsey, and Preston. Not only were their outfits great - they were so great that they won "Best Outfit" at the dance. You will remember, this is now a distinction which Jamison Lloyd has held for 2 years in a row!

The Scooby-Doo crew after winning their prestigious award!

Temp Tats for Missions

Our apartment of completed 9th and 11th grade girls have found a fun and creative way of filling their free time this week. They have opened up “Temp-Tats” A temporary tattoo parlor. Passport campers can come by outside their front door and get their choice from a variety of pirate, games, rock-roll, and other themed tattoos.

They are accepting $.25 donations for each tattoo and all donations will go to the Passport missions offering collected at the end of the week.

It is a great way to meet people from camp and raise money for missions. I am writing this post from the Temp-Tats parlor and there is a line of 6+ “customers” from other churches waiting for their tattoos. They have nearly sold out of their initial inventory and a new stock of tattoos is in route from Walmart.

The word is spreading and the popularity is growing. What a neat idea!!

Camp Photos - Login

Every day Passport staff is posting pictures on the Passport camper photos area of the Passport website. You can check out this weeks pictures by going to -

http://www.passportcamps.org/campphoto/files/wingate6.php

The login word is "sole" - currently they have posted pictures from Sunday - of our groups as we arrived, of each of the Bible study groups and of our adult leaders. It looks like there is maybe a 1 day delay in their posts.

Wet, Wild and Crazy Kids!

Tonight’s evening activity was a Rec competition. All the Bible study groups competed against each other in messy, wet relay race events. Upon arriving at camp our students were assigned to Passport Bible study groups. Their group ID is stamped inside their Passport - Red Triangle 53, Black Circle 81, Blue Square 46, etc. Everyone had a great time and the winning team was Red Triangle 53 - there are a bunch of Second Baptist Students in that group. Check out the video of Alex DeCapri and Jamison Lloyd going down the giant slip-n-slide.

Trust!

Our four theme words for this week are Trust-Follow-Share-Serve.

At Passport, the theme is presented each morning with a scripture passage during our morning quite time devotions. The theme and scriptures are then emphasized during our opening assembly, Bible studies, choice group discussions, evening worship service, and church group night time devotions.

Throughout the day our students have been thinking about and talking about their trust in God. Our scripture passage was Matthew 6:25-34. During Bible study and devotion times we talked about the times when it is difficult to trust God and how we know we can always trust him to work out his purpose in our lives. What a great theme to start the week with!

We have arrived!

We have safely arrived at Passport Choices in Wingate, NC. Our group consists of 30 youth and 6 adult chaperons. We are looking forward to a great week. We have had dinner and are preparing for opening celebration.

Thank you for your prayers. More pictures and updates to come throughout the week.

Bye Bye Italy - Hello Wingate!

No, you are'nt lost. The Italy blog is now the Passport blog - and after that it will be the CLUE camp blog. Different name - same URL. This way you can use the same link to follow all of our Youth Missions Adventures.

We leave for Passport Sunday morning, 8am!

Thanks for keeping up and for keeping us in your prayers.