Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Meet the Goats of Luther Dell!


Tabatha 

Lucy

Tabatha and Lucy are back at Luther Dell for their second summer.  On June 6th, Lucy had two kids, one boy and one girl.

Here's some pictures from the day they were born:
Polly 

Peter




Jacob with Lucy and the kids


Peter and Polly are a week old today!
 I don't know how Peter can sleep with his neck like that, but they are pretty cute curled up in their spot by the shop!


Staff, campers, and church staff have been having fun with the baby goats!



Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Noodle Hockey and Servant Fair!


It's been a good Tuesday here at Luther Dell!  It started out really cold this morning but has warmed up throughout the day.  This afternoon the weather was perfect for running around outside!

We played an exciting game of Noodle Hockey this afternoon!  Each player has a noodle and a gator ball acts as the puck.  The object of the game is to use the noodles to hit the ball and pass it to your teammates down the field and into the net to score a goal.  If the ball touches your legs or feet, you have to freeze, put the noodle above your head, and count to 5 before continuing to play.  The campers from Lands Lutheran and Hosanna are really good at Noodle Hockey!








Tonight we had servant fair, which is where the staff do fun and crazy things to serve the kids.  The stations included:
Nail Painting and Original Song Creations 

The Confidence Boosters 

Hair Braiding 

Blood Pressure Testing 

Crayola Tattoos

Blind Drawings 


One of the stations this week was a G-mail station, where campers could get their picture taken with a Goat or a Gorilla, or both!  A staff member will then e-mail the picture to the person of the camper's choice!



The goats definitely provided added excitement to servant fair today!  We have two baby goats at Luther Dell this summer.  We'll do another entry to introduce you to the goats sometime this week!



Pastor Dave from Lands Lutheran had fun with the goats!


Here's what we've been up to the rest of the day!

First Word
Breakfast
Cabin Cleanup
Chapel
Bible Study/ One on Ones/ Cabin Time
Game Time
Lunch
Simmer/ Nap time
Free Time/Beach open
Free Time/Canteen open
Noodle Hockey/Art Shop
Team Building
Dinner
Rendezvous/ Time with God
Servant Fair
Canteen
Super Happy Fun Times Tuesday Worship
Church meeting
Skittles Night Game

Monday, June 11, 2012

Week 1 Campers are Here!

After two weeks of staff training, we are all so excited to be starting the week with kids here at Luther Dell!  We have campers from Lands Lutheran in Zumbrota and Hosanna Lutheran in Forest Lake.


Thankfully all of the campers got here yesterday before the storm rolled in.  We got a lot of rain and some crazy thunder and lightning but it passed pretty quickly.  Even though we weren't able to play a game of Medic as scheduled, everyone had a lot of fun playing Speed Pictionary inside.


It had been pretty hot here the last few days and the rain brought some much appreciated cooler weather!


This morning we played Extreme Duck Duck Gray Duck!





Tonight we played two great games of Mighty Mighty Scoop Noodle Challenge with each team winning one game.  They were close ones!




Here's what else we've been up to today!


First Word
Breakfast
Cabin Cleanup
Chapel
Bible Study/ One on Ones/ Cabin Time
Game Time (Ships across the Ocean and Extreme Duck Duck Gray Duck!)
Lunch
Simmer/ Nap time
Swim Tests
Free Time/Canteen open
Medic
Team Building
Dinner
Rendezvous/ Time with God
Mighty Mighty Scoop Noodle Challenge!
Canteen
Taize Worship
Church meeting
Boys Devo/Girls Devo

We're Back!

We are up and running again here at Luther Dell!  We have been a little slow on updating this, so we will give you an update on what's been going on up here!


We had the Youth Encounter teams up here from May 21st -25th for a week of VBS training.  It was fun to hear some of their stories from being on the road for a year of ministry.


Staff Training started on Saturday, May 26th.  We had a full two weeks of preparing for the summer and growing together.


We had a fishing tournament here at Luther Dell, over the weekend of June 1st-3rd.  There were about 20 fishermen that came to fish.  Here are some pictures of the winners!  Good work guys!  We hope to see you again next year!