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More of the Same
Another beautiful morning… another hot summer day… another great memory from another great evening program… more DMCs are being scheduled… more levels...
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Jimboy Miller
Director
Jimboy (a Director since 1988) has been the Executive Director of Greystone since 1996. He grew up at camp and has worked in virtually every area of the business, from horse groom, to maintenance boy, to canoeing counselor, to camp cook, then Director. Jimboy makes camp fun! He brings simple enthusiasm and devoted care to every detail of the summer. Fireworks during the carnival, amazing facility renovations, and generous giveaways all bear Jimboy’s “over the top” signature. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and RTS seminary before returning to Greystone to serve as Director.
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Carpe Diem
The sun rose in a cold blue sky, but the mist on the lake quickly dissipated in the low humidity of this perfect summer day. Temperatures will rise to...
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Friendships
Todays Morning Assembly Devotion introduced this week’s theme on friendships. “Brother Reid” used an illustration of three water activities to conside...
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Slowing Down
We are entering what is considered to be the “slow” part of camp… the week before our big camp productions… a time when campers feel like there is a l...
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Sunday July 9
Our beautiful 5-Year Celebration started with a Garden Party… that is as iconic a “girls camp” sentence as I can imagine! A boy’s camp would have not...
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Surprise, Delight, Inspire
That was FUN!!! Yesterday’s theme day turned out as good as we hoped, which is to say a day to remember for years to come. A great day at camp will no...
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Happy Taylor Swift Day
Today is, of course, the day that Taylor Swift released her re-recorded album “Speak Now”… a fact that the Main campers are well aware of. One of the ...
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Joy
Another beautiful morning, another Great Day… This is the chorus of our Greystone song every summer. Some beautiful mornings are rainy, and some are s...
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Challenge Day
It’s Challenge Day at Greystone, a big deal at camp! Campers delight in the games, relays, matches, and races (all of which were challenges formally m...
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The Fourth
The Fourth of July is always a big deal at camp. We dress up in gaudy garb, play American-themed music, march around, have a carnival, and shoot firew...
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The Bubble
It is Monday, July 3rd… a holiday in the real world but just another Great Day in “The Bubble”. I don’t know exactly when the campers started calling ...
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Sunday July 2
Sundays are different in many ways that campers love. We sleep late, enjoy a morning run (an optional Stumblers Club), savor a leisurely buffet breakf...
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Fired Up!
Everyone was fired up in the Dining Hall this morning. They were so hyped up it was noticed by all. What was the reason? Waffles and bacon, freshly cu...
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Routine Surprise Tradition
Camp is a place of routine, surprise, and tradition. Our routines are established from the first day: bells and bugles scheduled with the predictabili...
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CLUBS
One of the many lessons we learned from our Covid summers was the positive impact clubs have in Main Camp. We substituted a class period in the aftern...
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Peace
One of the decisions that we wrestle with as a Head Staff every year is what the theme verse of the upcoming summer will be. Our team presents several...
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Insufficient
The blog is my attempt to show you the “awesomeness” of camp, but it will fall short. There are SO MANY facets to this jewel of a camp, each one of wh...
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Welcome to Main Camp!
The blog is our way of communicating with you every day of the summer. I make it a priority in my day, posting before noon if possible (typically arou...
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Are You Ready For This!
It is early Saturday morning, and camp is not quiet… in fact, it is abuzz with the sounds of preparation. The food delivery truck arrived first, unpac...
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Sunny Skies
The headline of today’s Blog is obvious, for it is the thought that dominates every camper and counselor this morning. The heavy cloud cover has lifte...
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Rain Rain
Rain, Rain, Go Away… we are about ready for a change! The forecast calls for gradual improvement in our weather pattern over the course of the day. It...
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The Show
There are many cumulative moments happening this week; one of them was the Play “Seussical” last night. This EP has taken the entire session to put to...
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All Good
Yesterday’s rain did not impact our program very much. Nothing fell until midway through the afternoon classes. At that point, it rained hard for abo...
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Wet Dog Day
Some of my favorite childhood memories occurred during long rainstorms. I was a camper at Falling Creek, always attending the Main Camp (seven weeks l...
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Father's Day
While we do not celebrate Father’s Day at camp (we reserve that occasion for homelife), we acknowledge the fact that Dads play an important role in fa...
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Self Image
Body image… This subject is still a major problem for many people. It is one of those things that has always been a burden for our campers (even in th...
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Chicken Day
Any day that begins with Chic-Fil-A biscuits is a GREAT DAY, and that is what we enjoyed for breakfast this morning. We slept late and set out a lavis...
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Having a Ball
My Grandmother’s birthday was in July, so her father made sure to treat birthdays as a big deal at camp! He set one day apart to honor these girls in ...
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Good Times
Spirits are high as we enter another GREAT DAY at Greystone. The girls are celebrating the Great Day way of living as we enter the final stretch of ca...
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Good
In the beginning, God declared His creation good. This fact has not changed, dispite the impact of sin. Our cynical and pessimestic minds might tell u...