Everyone is divided into Houses, and you do days of competition to see which house will win it all. This youth camp consistested of four house: The Green House, The Blue house, the Yellow House and the Red House. Spoiler alert: I was in the Red House and we came in dead last. The events are organized by someone they call the Eegway. An Eegway is a cross between an M.C. and a god. Weird, right? So the Eegway runs the whole camp, and awards points to teams for the competitions and just for whatever they feel like. On top of that, in an attempt to get extra points, the teams will continually run up to the Eegway and bow down chanting "Eegway, Eegway" as they praise them. Well, guess who got to be the Eegway. I'll give you a clue - they called him "Cheezgway."
Cheezgway was accompanied by seasoned Sierra Leone Venture participant Tim Dikun, our second Eegway. Cheez has since told a number of people that this was his favorite project he's done on a Venture trip. He claims it is because he loves youth camps. I think its because he loved hundreds of people bowing down to him.
The purpose of camp was to share the love and teachings of Jesus Christ with the teenagers. Many of them live in the children's homes on property. Others walked for miles from other villages to join. We heard sermons from Uncle Mark Drennan each morning, and from our very own team members in the afternoon. There were skits to act out the bible verses, and as mentioned before - lots of competitions. Don't worry, we have video coming of all this stuff.
Now enjoy the pictures from youth camp.
