Birchwood Fall Retreat

Soccer

The Chapel

Fire

Pumpkins

Leslie, Megan and Alisha

Twig with Ice

Mike and Megan by the lake

Games in the Lodge

Sun Rise

We had great weather and company at the Birchwood Fall Retreat this weekend. There were about 20 youth and 5 adults from St. John. Friday night most played capture the flag with glow sticks. We played a few games like shuffle buns and fruit basket upset. Saturday we ate good. We ate all weekend, our cook Bernita was awesome pumpkin pancakes, taco salad and chicken with mashed potatoes and corn oh my.

Saturday our youth leader Jay organized a game of professor, where the adults built a model then one youth from each team looked at the model and had to tell their team how to build it, but the rest of there team could not see it and the professor could not touch it. It was a lot of fun and all the youth participated.

We had free time in the afternoon where the youth played football, soccer, went on hikes, played games, and carved pumpkins. The pastor at St John came out in the afternoon and did a communion service at the out door chapel. After dinner the camp managers Steve and Marie organized a scavenger hunt with clues through out the camp. We had 2 teams competing the freshman vs everyone else. The freshman won by about 2 minutes. Then we had a camp fire with s'mores down by the lake.