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A History of the Impact Skit and how Impact finally found it's identity.

Let me first start off with a bit of history about camps.... Within the world of church camps, there were certain things that were at one time accepted blindly. Thankfully we (or at least most of us) have moved on. Growing up going to camp and visiting camps all over the country, I noticed that most camps just do the same kind of thing every year. They basically have an old formula and they stick to it. The idea of a theme that permeated the entire week was not on anyone's mind, and camp pretty much ran itself. You did the same things every year with little imagination or spark, and a theme which seems just so natural now, was an afterthought. When Impact finally started using it's drama to help the theme, well it seemed like we finally discovered that a theme could mean something. A drama could make the theme real, unite a camp, and develop a real sense of community. A theme that enveloped everything about the camp, the games, set, skits, shirts, well it could give the campe...