Nicole and Sam have both been very busy at camp. Nicole didn't realize she would be putting her nursing skills to work. She and the other camp nurse see between 30 and 40 patients each day! Ailments range from headaches, heat exhaustion, pink eye, flu, colds, scrapes, a young hypochondriac complaining about high blood pressure, sore throats and more. We have also had three fairly serious medical situations. A young boy fell from about 8 feet and broke his arm. An 18 year old homeless orphan that one of the pastors picked up from the street and brought to camp one day went into alcohol withdrawal and had a seizure. Last night a camper had some type of a seizure as well. In all of these cases Nicole was right there to help take care of the person and assess what needed to be done. I was impressed at how calm she handled herself and the knowledge she brought to the situation.
Sam has put crafts together each day at least once and sometimes twice along with Nicole. They never know how many people might show up. It could be 5 or 20, which makes it tough. In the evening after the meeting the campers have snack time that they can invite people to join. On many nights Sam and Nicole have done crafts with girls until 11:00 or later. Like all our activities, our hope is that the campers enjoy it and that it builds a relational bridge that gives us a chance to speak truth to them.
Both have also helped with the Olympic games and whole camp games that we organize and implement each day. One day they might run an Uno or Dutch Blitz tournament, another day they might referee soccer, help with the climbing wall or frisbee golf, teach softball, or lead water balloon volleyball.
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