NY has a lot of Christ-centered camps that operate year round, with a special emphasis on youth camps in the summer.

Covid stole that from most of them.

Camp Cherith, in Western NY decided to offer family camp for units traveling together.  Each group got their own cabin and their own dedicated bathroom facilities and dining table.  We also got to rotate between activities over six times slots on three days.  They also provided us with post-breakfast personal devotion material, post-lunch family devotional material, and after dinner songs and campfires with testimonies and games.

We left our house around 8:30AM to be at Cherith by 10AM.

We unpacked, played a game, and then decided to drive by Houghton before lunch so that the girls could see where Stewart goes to college.

There were some yard games set up.

There were also bees.
Katriel got bitten, or stung, or something. 

People responded with help, and after some ice and a topical medication, she felt a little better.

After lunch we did an activity to demonstrate what happens when we “poke” people with our words.

We signed up for our activities for the next three days.  Today we would have time to go out in the canoes.

Afterwards, some of us used freetime to swim, and Tab set up her reading station in the back of the van.

Dinner was at 6PM.  We took a different route.

A few mores games.

Then at 7PM we went to the pavilion and each group rotated through the four games they had set up for us.

Then we had songs.  Smores.  A testimony. 

Bed!  We were the good kind of whooped!

This isn’t a normal Butler vacation, but this is not a normal year.