Basketball Camp

Hey everyone! I just wanted to give a bigger update about the Basketball Camp. Everything went really well. God blessed us with 4 days of perfect weather. It did rain on the 5th day, but it all worked out ok. We were planning on ending early that day to have a pizza party and give out certificates of participation. So the rain did not interfere too much.

There were 9 kids who participated in some fashion at the camp, and we also had 5 teachers who helped run things. Each day we started with stretching, and then broke into two groups. One group was the really basic skill group. I led and helped with this group. We did VERY basic dribbling, passing, shooting, and defense drills. It took me back to my days of basketball practice.

After the drills part we played some sort of game. Games throughout the week included knock-out (a Camp Okoboji favorite), a dribbling competition, hot-shot, 3-on-3, and a free throw competition. The kids really enjoyed these and us teachers also had a chance to compete in some of them.

After the competition we took a small break and then had a Bible reading, message and prayer. I posted the theme verse for the camp in a previous post. Each day we tried to relate the message to how Christ gives us victory in life with some component of playing sports or competing in basketball. For some of this kids it was their first introduction to Bible from the foreigner teachers here at Concordia. They all will have Bible class starting next week, and I think this was a great foundation for them from which the year's Bible class can be built upon.

Here are some pictures from the camp.


Practicing dribbling


Pastor Lio gives a message


Get the rebound!