Epic Time at BMAC

Over Labour Weekend, 13 young people and four leaders from Hutt City Corps went to The Salvation Army’s Blue Mountain Adventure Centre (BMAC) in Raurimu, for three days of outdoor challenges and relationship building.

Captain Cameron Millar reports, ‘The focus of the time together was drawing closer to God and drawing closer as young people. The boys’ cabin took time at the end of each day to read the Bible together, and all spoke afterwards of it being significant for them.’

With funding from the Jeff Farm Trust as well as a generous local donor, the group travelled to BMAC in corps vans on the Friday evening. Outdoor activities over the weekend included high ropes, caving and a full day rafting on the Tongariro River. Games and devotions were also a key feature of the weekend. The long weekend meant the group had two full days of activities with Monday being pack up and travel home day.

Cameron reports that many of the young people said rafting was their favourite activity, because they enjoyed seeing their leaders and other young people being thrown off the raft by the massive rapids. One of the young people said the caving was their highlight because they had never been so far underground before, reporting ‘the glow worms were pretty epic!’

Major Jeannine Serevi was ‘camp mum’ and kept the young people fed and they all spoke highly of the delicious food.