Campfire Saturday–This is Your Brain on Faith!
This year, we enjoyed our biggest snow camp for high school teens yet!
It was so fun to watch the campers run to the door every time someone new arrived in order to greet them.
And yes, of course true friendship involves mashed potato art! In this case, another mashed potato duck.
After witnessing a variety of enthusiastic greetings, one of the leaders jumped on the band wagon and flung himself into Van Helsing’s arms when he arrived to lead chapel.
After a quick get-to-know-you game that involved a great deal of running, shouting, and some danger of broken chairs, it was time for the first chapel session!
Choco and Partake joined us to lead the worship, starting with some fun fast songs to get everyone’s hearts pumping!
It is so lovely to listen to teens sing together. Many of them have trained voices at this age and those who don’t sing with such vibrant enthusiasm. It is a joy to gather with these amazing campers to lift our songs before the Lord.
Van Helsing’s topic for the weekend was Your Brain on Faith!
Using the fascinating book The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation by Jim Wilder and Michael Hendricks, he addressed the tendency that we have to only connect with God in more left-brained logic types of ways like study and scheduled prayer times. However, if we ignore the part of our brain that thrives on making connections through emotions and shared experiences, we will miss out on so much of what God wants for us and how He relates to us as a loving rescuer not only a just master. Van Helsing took us through some right brained exercises to not just know who Jesus is but to draw closer to Him through a deeper connection to our Lord.
OK, that’s a wrap for Campfire Saturday! Join me over at The Campfire Blog for the rest of the story about Senior High snow camp!
