West Coast Counselor

West Coast Counselor.

I was able to send letters to people I knew. I asked them to give me money. I needed around $400 to around $800 USD or so, or more, or something, so that I could fly from my first college, the Word Of Life Bible Institute (WOLBI) in Pottersville, New York USA, to the Word Of Life's West Coast Camp (WCC). I raised enough money. People mailed in money or I at least thought people did. I was able to fly in an airplane to the camp. I was able to be a counselor. I use to go to this same camp each year when I was younger as a camper from the years of 1999 to the year 2003, which was 5 strait years.

July 2006
21 years old
West Coast Camp: California, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

Children Ministry Team

After high school, my missionary friends flew me to New York for camp and college. I arrived in New York in June 2004.

In September, during the first days of college at the Word Of Life Bible Institute, I auditioned for the Drama Team, but was rejected, but director John "Giddy" Brown, of the Children Ministry Team (CMT) saw me and welcomed me into his team.

I was able to join forces with another guy with glasses, as we were Flatman & Bobbin, which is a puppet-show parody of Batman & Robin. Our team was able to faciliate and run children events with songs, activities, games, puppet shows, drama skits, food, music, lessons, and other such things, at schools, churches, fields, buildings, in the different states in and around the state of New York USA, which includes New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, PA, and others.

I was on this team from September 2004 until August 2006.