Boys Blog gets New Name

Posted by phil

It has been a few years since we started the Blogs here at Ridgecrest Summer Camps. We started 3 blogs at the same time. There was the “Boys Blog” (super original, I know), the “Girls Blog”, and the Parent’s Blog (which we called “Just for Parents”).

Earlier this month we decided to stop being boring and actually name the Blogs something meaningful and interested. After some debate, and even asking your opinions over Facebook, we decided on a name.

The Boys Blog is now known as “Our Paddles”. If this sounds random to you, let me explain. For many years we have closed Council Ring Ceremony each Sunday night by singing a special camp song. This song is called Our Paddles. Every camper over the past 40-50 years has sung this song at least once. It represents the quiet sounds and songs of the warriors paddling down river towards camp, the second verse is sung louder as the warriors pass through the camp, and then quiet again as they move down the river. This seems very similar to how so many of us interact with camp. We get excited as camp approaches, the have the time of our life during the best 2 or 4 weeks of our year here at camp, and then as we go back home we slowly become distracted from the traditions, the adventure, and even the lessons God taught us here at camp.

We see this Blog as a tool to remember. We want you to remember what the Lord taught you here at Camp last year, or even 30 years ago. Similar to the warriors canoeing down the river, Our Paddles seems like a perfect title that calls us to remember how it felt to get excited about camp before we arrived our last summer as a camper, to remember the adventure that our God took us on while at camp, and even the transition back into the “real world” back home.

Check back here often, as Our Paddles is updated at least once a week! See you soon…

 

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