Every summer at Washington Family Ranch I get suckered into going on this thing called the Blob.  It’s like a giant air worm sitting in a lake.  The object is to run off of a high-rise platform, to the back end of the Blob thereby launching another individual off the front end in a catapult-like action.
In [...]

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So this year, I took it upon myself to make our camp t-shirt to save the area some money.  It was pretty simple really…I used Adobe Photoshop Elements, and scribbled a complete mess, then added some text, and poof, a fabulous looking shirt design.
I was feeling pretty good about our area shirts until I saw [...]

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We were gathered in a parking lot to caravan to camp with a bunch of middle school kids. Myself, and another leader named Shannon, were organizing transportation.
We had more than enough vehicles to fit the kids in, but it was about a 4 hour drive to camp. So we wanted to figure out how to [...]

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There is one in every bunch. This is such a funny video, from a Young Life leader in Saranac.

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I was in high school when our youth group got together with other groups from our denomination. I was bunking with a college chaperon, I idolized named Dave Melendez.
One day after a morning session, I was on my way back to the room when all of a sudden Dave, and another leader named Kevin, [...]

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I am a church partner who is active with Young Life, a non-denominational outreach to teens. Here in Oregon there is this amazing camp called Wild Horse Canyon, where we go each summer.
So it’s late and I am hanging out with some of our student leaders. It was toward the end of an awesome week [...]

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