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by: Dawn ggjonesfam@juno.com Our theme was last year was "The Olympic Spirit - Light
the Fire From Within." Each group picked a country. The stake theme song was a
beautiful song written by Janice Kapp Perry entitled "The Light Within". It can
be found in a Songbook with the same title at any of the church bookstores.
The stake scripture was D&C 84:45-47 "For the word of the Lord is truth, and
whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, eve the Spirit of Jesus
Christ.
And the spirit giveth light to every man that cometh into the world; and the Spirit
enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit.
And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the
Father."
They separated each day by:
On Your Mark--Faith Alma 32:27
Get Set--Obedience John 8:12
Go!--Receiving the Spirit Ether 4:11
The Finish--Keeping the Spirit D&C 50:24
The song sang at the closing ceremonies on the last day was "Keeper of the
Flame" which the 5th years and the stake sang after which we joined in. Absolutely
beautiful. I only have the words, not the music.
We had opening ceremonies where each group made their own flags and carried them in
procession to the ampitheatre. The stake, of course, were Greece and one of the priesthood
leaders up there for the week ran in, toga and all, with a torch and lit a torch which
stayed lit the entire time we were there. It was kept close to the stake tents with
someone always watching it.
We even had Olympic games between the groups, the shoe kick--see how far you can flip you
shoe from (the winner, believe it or not, flipped her shoe more than 65 yards!), choco
put--cover a girls face with coolwhip and teammates threw cocoa puffs onto her face, the
one with the most on their face wins, and other silly and fun games. I'm sure you can come
up with your own silly ones.
Ooops, forgot one thing. If you notice, on the Olympic flag, there are 7 rings, one for
each value. The stake flag, with some minor revisions, was the olympic flag with each ring
signifying one of the YW values.
My VT partnerwas the stake person over the Olympic games so will try to get those from
her. Just from memory, there was a game called "Heel/Toe" or something like that
in which 15 girls from each group lined up heel to toe, the longest line won. LOL! we only
have 13 girls so we had to use a couple of leaders and we still lost! Some of these wards
have girls with very big feet!
Another game had five girls eating licorice ropes in relay style--don't remember the name
to that one.
As far as the secret sisters, because we camp as wards, each ward could choose their own
names for this. We chose team "mates". It worked really well and I think really
unified the girls a little more than usual (we are a very small but close ward).
One other thing we did, for the first time, and it worked really well was the Singing
Trees. Each group chose either a hymn or primary song that fit with their group's theme
(i.e., faith, prayer, joy, etc.) and we gathered in a group of trees near the stake tents
with our flash lights at night. We sang a couple of songs together to start with and then
turned off all the lights. Each group in turn would turn on their lights and sing their
song. We ended by sing the stake theme song "The Light Within". I know it really
doesn't have anything to do with the Olympics per se, but it was beautiful. The spirit was
so strong. We were all in tears as we walked back to our tents that night.
Contributed by: Cynthia Keller megamom@srv.net
I was also reading in the church news and a theme
they used also sounded good. "Light the Spiritual Fire Within" Could
make a nice theme. I also read a scripture this morning that struck me for a neat
theme----AOL----Armor of light! The scripture was in Romans.
Camp
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