The castle walls came tumbling down as we prepared to undergo construction on our new Olympic Stadium. As the Winners’ Club staff focused on the “Olympic/Teamwork” theme, they worked together in setting the stage to hold their own Olympics in the NLA Chapel. In July, they learned that there is a lot of training and exercise that needs to take place when a person is going to be in the Olympics. The one main goal that every athlete has is to start and complete his or her race. Having a goal and staying on course to meet that goal may be hard and tiresome at times, but crossing the finish line is worth it.

The games included Thread the Needle, Team Building Relay Race and Obstacle Course, and we can’t forget to mention the Water Balloon Toss. The one muscle that got a huge workout was the stomach muscle, because they had laughed so hard while rooting for their teammates to finish each race.

As always, this year's Youth Camp was awesome! It was uplifting to fellowship with the youth of New York and to hear the testimonies of how God is working in their lives. The anointed preaching of Brother Staten and Brother Mooney was an extremely powerful and moving experience that blessed us all immensely. Every young person was strengthened and greatly ministered to in each service. Of course, no district youth event would really be a youth event without the prevalence of sports. So naturally, there were basketball and dodge ball tournaments, soccer games, baseball games, and other various sport-like activities that consumed a large portion of the young people’s time.

Congratulations to the staff who thoroughly dominated the campers in both the basketball and softball games. This year’s camp truly was a phenomenal time with the NY district youth and the Lord.