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Adventurer Camporee

Over 550 parents and children camped out at Crosslands on the weekend of 23-25 October for what was the largest ever Greater Sydney Conference Pre-Adventurers (Little Lambs) and Adventurers (4-9 years olds) Camporee.
Over the weekend the Adventurers completed two awards – Bible Children and Weather (a new award created by District Director, Norm Tew). In completing the awards, the children were involved in crafts, painting and acting in a play. Pr John Wells, our associate youth director, kept the Adventurers captivated with his stories of children in the Bible including: Jesus growing up, Samuel, Naaman’s wife’s maid and the widow and her boys who the prophet Elisha helped.
Sabbath morning worship took place on the tarp at ‘church under the trees’. The Mt Druitt group taught everybody some new songs. The children then enthusiastically recreated the story of Jesus and covered their costumes with messages about loving Jesus. The pre-adventurers looked very cute dressed up as stars, sheep and cows as they acted out the Christmas story.

For the weather award, the Adventurers painted rainbows and murals of the weather in Eden and Heaven. They also made pin-wheel wind collectors and rain-gauges. Thankfully the rain-gauges didn’t need to be used, despite the rainy forecast. Pr John Wells commented: “It was clearly a miracle from God that the rain held off for the entire weekend and it only rained the last hour before leaving.”

The success of the weekend was the result of the hard work and creativity put into the program by the members of the Adventure Advisory and their helpers, who made this an enjoyable weekend.