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Day Camp done for another year

Well it was that time of year again where 200 odd of the primary school kids (and 100 odd other bods who are leaders for the week) descend upon the Allawah Scout campsite for Day Camp. It is also the time of year when many of the young people from churches between Ipswich and Indooroopilly all converge on a single location and continue with a conversation that they were having 12 months ago. It never ceases to surprise me how people seem to come out of the woodwork every year for this as there are many people who just keep coming back. Equally impressive is how quickly everyone seems to scatter after the event. Perhaps it is all a bit much and they need 10 months to recover.

That said, being the ecumenical idealist that I am, I really think that it is great when the people from the local churches all get together to run a local event. I really think that this whole deal of doing work within your own community in which you live seems to have been forgotten of late. It is also a great opportunity for the Youth of the area to network with others within their community (specifically those outside of their individual church) and be part of the wider church as opposed to operating in their own little world within their congregation. Furthermore this is an excellent example of a large scale even that is organised and run by the lay people within the churches, not just the paid staff.

What was equally impressive was the rain that we got on Tuesday, which lead to the main assembly tent breaking and needing to be replaced. In amongst the cars sliding sideways in the car park (thankfully no-one was hurt) and the kids getting a bit feral after being kept within a relatively confined space for 5 hours, the day worked out really well. The bonus from this rain is that we got to swap the usual dust clouds for mud, much more fun and less irritating (even if it can be a touch dangerous and slippery)

I also got a chance to give my shiny new car its first real use and also get rid of a bit of that shiny new-ness about it. Overall though it fared very well and still looks new. 

Overall through, it was an excellent week and I very much look forward to next year.