The 6th week of City Camp was 'Around the World' week! Each day of the week we picked a different part of the world to study. Monday we studied Australia, Tuesday – Asia, Wednesday – France, and Thursday - Africa.
Some of the activities that we did through the week were painting animals from Australia, learning how to speak and write some basic Chinese, and tribal – African face painting.
On Wednesday we made Eiffel Towers during devotions and talked about having a strong foundation in the Lord.
Friday we took a field trip to the Kansas City Zoo to see all of the animals from around the world. Thank you Kansas City Zoo for sponsoring a trip for City Camp!
A big thanks to Shawnee Mission Park! We were able to go to the park for an afternoon and have a fun fill outdoor recreation time.
Thanks so much to Cleveland YMCA for providing a fun filled recreation afternoon in their gym and pool! Our City Camp kids loved it!
New Life Community Church brought their high school youth group for a week at City Camp. Thanks so much New Life for ministering with us for a week.
We're already done with week 7 and in some ways it seems like we just got started and in other ways it feels like we've been with these campers for years. This week we traveled through history learning all about our past, how America came to be and the heritage we have in the faith. We were blessed to have an awesome volunteer group here from City Refuge Church! They were a huge help and we are so thankful for them. 
This week we packed in all sorts of activities from making homemade ice cream, building forts, playing dress up, learning new gym games, playing with the parachute, making colonial cookies, learning new facts, and going on some great field trips!
This week we went to Miss Stephanie's church to watch a movie and have snacks! It was a fun relaxing afternoon to escape the heat. We also cooled off at the Concourse Fountains which is always a blast. Clay County Parks and Rec hosted us for our Friday Field Trip and we had so much fun with the interns and the park rangers. They taught us how to fish, shoot bows and arrows, and even let us check out their wildlife. The campers loved all of it...even touching the snakes!
We are excited to jump into our final week of City Camp for the 2011 season. Please be praying that God really works in the lives of the campers as we wind down and they gear up for school.
