Today we continued wrestling with our theme about HOME through the story of the Exodus: Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery in ancient Egypt to a new home - a promised land of freedom. We finished one art class, switching to another one. Our programmatic approach moved us from our strengthened sense of community (from yesterday’s relationally bonding fun) to our first of several community service-learning activities which seek to expand our sense of community from ourselves, and our friends, to the city in which we live and the wider world of the common good. We’re doing a trash and recycling pick-up along College Avenue, seeking to support and participate in the work of the neighborhood, and the Rockridge District Association [web LINK], to beautify our hood and make it safe. And of course, there was ice cream.
TALK WITH YOUR CAMPER ABOUT TODAY’S CAMP FUN
Here are some questions for talking with you camper(s) about camp today:
1. What does Home mean for you? Where do you feel most at home? Is it a place, a space or related to people? Why would Abraham and Sarah leave their home for a new one that they didn’t even know about simply because God asked them do to so?
2. What new art class did your camper begin?
3. Who were some of the heroes/heroines (real or fictional) that campers dressed up as?
4. What was the weirdest thing that your camper, or his her/group, found on the trash-pick up?
Tomorrow is Crazy Hair Day! Go for whatever you can make happen!
We’re engaging the story of the Zaccheus and notions of home as family with Karl.
For lunch we’re having personal pizzas.
In our project-based service-learning we’re working with the Child Life Department of UCSF Benioff’s Children’s Hospital [LINK] to provide activities for children-patients who are in long term care so that the hospital might feel a little bit more like home. We’re doing this work on the church campus.
You can see photos of today (and every day) on our social media sites as well as on our photo 2019 page on the camp website HERE http://www.recreationvbs.org/2019-photos
Thursday is our art show from 6-7pm, a chance to show off and celebrate what we’ve been doing as well as to connect among families and friends. You can bring a dish of finger snacks (savory or sweet) to share as we seek to make our celebration like a real art show gallery opening!
Friday we’re doing a public art project, seeking to expand our conversation about home and what that means and who that includes to the larger city. We’ll be creating an art installation to go on the fence of the empty lot at the end of the block, at the intersection of College and Claremont Avenues. An idea curated by some of our church community members and VBS volunteer leaders, the project will include photos of your campers with their statement of what home is. There will be no names or identification with the photos, so that all campers remain anonymous. If you would like your camper to opt out of this activity, and not have their photo in the public installation please contact Monte by phone or email or at drop-off/pick-up by Thursday night.