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Monday Morning
Happy Monday everyone! This begins our “Middle” week of camp, the best week of camp in my opinion. I like to describe it to be the “sweet center” of t...
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Sunday
Sundays should be different… the Bible tells us that God made the earth in 6 days and rested on the seventh. He called that the Sabboth and gave it as...
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Here Comes the Sun
We awoke to bright blue skies and the promise of a lovely warm summer day. The weather this week has been perfect (from my perspective as a “native”) ...
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Quiet
I am an introvert but always wanted to be an extrovert. Oh to be the kind of person who is completely at ease in a crowd! I prayed for this attitude b...
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Adjustments
A good friend used to say that “Life is just a series of adjustments”. His name was H.M. Barfield (Lell Harboe’s father who spent many summers helping...
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First & Second
Today is the Second day of classes but interestingly, the campers will be taking classes for the first time. This is because we run an every other day...
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First Day
My favorite moment yesterday afternoon came as the girls ran into the Pavilion for their first “Assembly” of the camp session. The bugle blows, lettin...
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Raise the Curtain
My father used to get so excited about Opening Day… he was always giddy about every moment of this magnificent day. He loved that moment when the firs...
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Opening Day
It has been a very busy day and I almost forgot to do an update! SORRY!!! About the only people that care about what is on the blog today are those wh...
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Here in the bubble everything makes sense. I grow closer to friends and I’ve never felt closer to God and His creation. I never want to leave.
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The Greystone Bubble
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Challenge Day
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I have fun here every single second of the day.
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I love being able to simply be a girl, surrounded by the people I love.
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June Camp Highlight Video
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It is a place where you can be free of stress. No one judges people here. It is a break from a world where you have to be perfect.
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My counselor treats us like we're her best friends.
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Greystone is a place where everyone feels safe and loved.
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Well Done
On opening day we started our opening assembly with a line of counselors cheering the campers into the Pavilion. The girls could hear the cheers of th...
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Banquet
Banquet… what a wonderful word! It is an evocotive and exotic word to a camper (who often has never attended an actual “banquet”). The word assumes ev...
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Closing Vespers
The play was SO CUTE!!! We could not be more proud of the Directors, Cast, and Crew who worked so very hard to bring it all together in the last minut...
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Livestream
From time to time we give you the option of “attending” a camp event with a cool technology known as livestreaming. Tonight (at 7:30) we will have our...
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Monday... HURRAY
I feel sorry for people that dread the return to work on Monday mornings. At camp, we quite literally jump out of bed with keen anticipation of anothe...
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The Prize
Our final Stumblers of June Camp provides a touchstone for the entire camp. The t-shirt reward for running both Sundays is part of it (this is a reall...
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Beauty
The Breakfast Club joke is always anticipated by the girls. They come up to me throughout the day asking what the next joke will be (they know the jok...
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Sleep Late Friday
Little things delight when at camp… I think it is because life is sweeter when life is simpler. A good example is sleep late Friday, a much beloved tr...
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Are You Kidding?
Last night’s EP was Carnival, the very definition of an “outdoor activity”… completely dependant on good weather. Needless to say, we watched the weat...
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1/2 Way Home
We have now been in camp for ten days. In ten days we will be going home. That is the very definition of the half way point of the session, but it doe...
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Crazy Fun
Last night we made a mess and had a ball. We did a “fake” EP announcement at lunch (did a rhyme about having a camp wide “read your book” event… and t...
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The Middle Begins
Happy Monday Every One! This begins our “Middle” week of camp, the best week of camp in my opinion. We describe it to be the “sweet center” of the Ore...
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