Campfire

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Timing

Washing up/Change clothes/Snack time: 20 min

Praise (2 songs): 10 min

Testimony: 30 min

Prayer and Walk to Campfire: 15 min

Light the Fire: 5 min

Uplifting Praise (1) and Intro to HP Skits: 15 min

Skits: (5 min intermission after 5 groups perform) 1 hour 50 min

Closing Remarks and Happy Praise (2): 10 min

Hug Train and Closing Song: 30 min

Back to Tabrenacle 10 min

TOTAL 3 hours 15 minutes

Theme/Mood Trying to Be Conveyed

Feeling of peace, feeling of comfort, feeling of closeness, at this point in camp the kids should feel good enough to be sitting together around the campfire, just enjoying an overall feeling of belonging and familial closeness.

Transitional Time Itinerary (build-up)

Immediately after Miss Baltimore, we would have the kids wash up any make-up for the Miss Bmore participants and change into their “campfire” clothes. Warm-ups, sweats, etc. because it will be a little colder outside at this point.

They will come back and have their snacks or drinks (whatever it is that the adults want them to munch on before the campfire).

When all students have arrived back in the Tabrenacle, we will start off with 2 songs of praise. (1 medium paced/1 slower paced, songs will be chosen beforehand)

Materials

• 200 tea candles and clear cups (1 tea candle per 1 cup)
• Walkie Talkies (as many as we can get, preferably at least 12–20 range)
• 1 acoustic electric, 2 microphones (and chords for the microphones [keep in mind, one chord needs the converter piece for the amp])
• Acoustic Amp
• Extension chords (possibly will only need 3–4 orange long extension chords). If we use the Acoustic amp, we will be running the wire from a power outlet in the director’s lodge, NOT the generator (generator is too loud and distracting, we will not use it at this year’s campfire)
• Printouts of the songs we are going to sing. (they will be typed up and printed out beforehand) Deliberately printing ½ number of sheets so that kids have to share with their neighbor. More bonding, more closeness.
• Trash bags (to sit on), we’re looking at around 100 trash bags. (so however many packs it takes to total 100 trash bags).

  This is more so for the counselors, parents and anyone 
  who will be sitting on the grass, during campfire, because there will be dew and so the 
  grass could very well be wet. The students sitting on the sand (volleyball area) do not 
  really have to worry so much. We will have everyone sit on the ground to avoid the 
  need to carry around benches and chairs, also it’ll keep everyone level, and we’ll all be 
  able to see the skits that take place standing up front and center.

• Megaphone
• Small boombox

**CD for campfire background music (I will prepare beforehand) **Extra batteries for the boombox

• Tiki Torches [same number of torches as there are walkie talkies] (set up along the route to campfire; later they will brought up to the campfire and used as stage lighting)
• Flashlights (for counselors)