Fanari Camp

🏆Week 5, Day 4🏆

✝️Week 5, Day 3✝️

Well Fanari Camp Family, the air quality may have been bad, but our day ended up AMAZING! We started our day with Divine Liturgy beautifully celebrated with Father Kosmas, Father George, Father Ciprian, and Father Panteleimon. After breakfast, our plans had to change a bit from our usual programming so that we could all stay safe inside. Free time was had as always where campers indulged in indoor nine square, ice cream, and large versions of different games. At lunch, we were blessed with a visit from His Grace Bishop Dionysios of Zenopolis conveying the blessings of His Eminence Metropolitan Nathanael. The rest of our afternoon and evening consisted of four fun filled rotations: arts and crafts, a riveting song game, trivia, and a recent camp favorite BINGO! We ended the day with our spirit winners, the ATHENIANS (winning back to back might we add), an impromptu Greek night round 2, an announcement about a moose (ask your campers...they'll let you know), and finally camp songs! We're all pretty exhausted and ready to go to bed for our LAST FULL DAY OF CAMP OF THE SUMMER!

Fanari 2026 Day 5 Session 5 Explore this photo album by Metropolis of Chicago Youth & Young Adult Ministries on Flickr!

Even with the hottest day of the summer so far, we had a blast today! After Orthros and breakfast, our flex activities were themed around Orthodoxy. Campers got to make their own incense, learn about the vestments a priest wears, make koliva and prosforo for Liturgy on Thursday, and make prayer rocks! During free time, we beat the heat with mandated camp wide water breaks every 15 minutes and shade breaks every 30. The ice pops were flying off the shelves, and the staff were keeping our campers cool with WATER WARS the entire time. For our evening activity, campers participated in Saint Survivor and later were able to venerate the relics of a few Saints. At closing day, the OLYMPIANS won the spirit stick and we sang a few songs before going to bed!

Fanari 2026 Day 3 Session 5 Explore this photo album by Metropolis of Chicago Youth & Young Adult Ministries on Flickr!