Leelanau:

Ben Bishop, age 6
Cabin: Argosy
Counselors: Will Bisbee and Billy Shugart

What I love about camp is the competition, because no matter who wins or loses, everyone still has fun.

Charlie Busch, age 15
Cabin: Cherokee
Counselor: Mike Holland

What I love about the Flag Trip
I love the competition during the flag trip.  Nobody gives up while raiding or tackling.  The intensity is very high, yet the sportsmanship and brotherhood are even higher.  While out there, you tackle with love, you raid with love, and you simply love everyone even though they are not on your team.  Not only is love in great supply, but the food is awesome, almost as good as the kitchens.  We had ribs, pasta, omelets, and amazing desserts.  The flag trip is a blast, and if you ever go, it is literally the time of your life.  I love the flag trip.

Kevin Dunsire, 15
Cabin: Shoshonis
Counselor:  Andy Rathburg

Final Banquet is one of the most honorable and memorable nights of camp.  We start off in an orderly line at camp as we walk quietly in our Sunday whites to the Great House.  As we enter the Great House, it is decorated with streamers and balloons.  There are two tables set up.  There is a table for the North Team and a table for the South team.  When all of us are seated, the counselors begin to serve us the delicious meal that’s been prepared.  As we eat, we clap and sing joyfully to camp songs.

After dinner, we watch the slideshow from the year.  Then we have the award ceremony as the parents come in and watch.

Kohahna:

Caleigh White, age 9
Cabin: Gulls Nest
Counselor: Lydia Sinkus

Some of the things at camp I did were horsemanship, frolicking in the meadow, ceramics and landsports.  During horsemanship, I fell off head first, but I was ok.  In camp, I was in Gull’s Nest and I made a lot of friends.

Anne MacLennan, age 14
Cabin: Clifftop
Counselor: Sara Lowry

On the Challenge, during capture the flag, the Pines decided that I should go raiding on the Sands’ campsite.  It’s not often you go raiding by yourself, but our team decided it would be a good tactic, so I felt I needed to do what was best for the team.  So I got to the Sands’ site, was there on the campsite, almost to the flag, and thought: “this is the time to run.”  So I got up, sprinting through the pitch black, scared for my life, looking for the flag, and felt a surging pain in my back.  (It turned out that a Sand player had tackled be to the ground.)  I didn’t have a flashlight, so I was happy to see that the Sand player had one.  They took me to jail and that was that.  But, after I was let out of jail, and was on the Pines’ campsite, I went and got a flashlight and saw some blood on my shirt.  Then I saw that there was a HUGE cut, very deep and bleeding all over my left arm.  Instantaneously I felt my arm explode with pain.  I started to cry and all through the night I couldn’t get the pain out of my head
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When my shift for sleeping came, I fell asleep wondering why it hadn’t hurt before I looked at it.  So I woke up the next morning and looked at my arm.  It wasn’t that much better, and still hurt a lot.  My counselor came up to me with the Science and Health and read to me: “A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive.” Science and Health 463:12-13

I thought about this all day, and realized that before I looked at the scab, I was peaceful and had my thought pure, and that there was nothing wrong with me, but as soon as I saw the cut, I gave into my material senses and let error take over the truth.  Immediately I corrected my thought. The truth defies error.  Nothing can interfere with my harmony or peace in thought.  I really believed this, and knew that God would remove whatever is offensive.  I took this with me all through the day and found it healing very quickly and by the morning of the next day, nothing was there.

This healing taught me about myself.  I am a spiritual idea that has not a single element of error, and the truth removes properly whatever is offensive about me.

There is nothing like Camp Kohahna.  When I go there, I can be free of drama, free of error and free of disorder.  It makes me feel peaceful and happy.

Bonnie Sholeen, age 10
Cabin: Gull’s Nest
Counselor: Lydia Sinkus

Camp was the best! I did camp crafts with Heather and I also did canoeing (and even capsized!). It was fun. I also tried water skiing and got up on my first try. I really like the food at camp. You get pizza on Fridays and milkshakes…yum! My favorite milkshake was chocolate mint.

The main reason I like camp is that there are a lot of people looking out for you and always someone to play with. In my cabin, I was able to help my cabin mate when she was homesick. I told her that her parents wanted her here because it is the best place you can be. God is looking out for you and loves you even more than your very best friend could.

Next year I really want to come back to Camp Kohahna. Everybody should come!