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The Current Board Here is the current board with the year they joined and their area's of responsibility.. Steve Davidson (1992): Director Lisa Davidson (1992): Concessions Dudley Chancey (1992) Sets Johnny Markham (1994): Classes, Speakers and Worship Leaders Todd Loyd (1997): Creative Director, Impact Charities Mike Shepherd (97-06, 2015) Morning Impact (97,98) Stage Manager (99-06), Catch All (2015) Roadies (2106) David Skidmore (1999): Sets (till 2013), T-Shirts (till 2014), Creative Team David Rubio (2002): Assist with Set, Skit, Creative Team Chris Harrell (2002): Chaperones and Adults Justin Bagwell (2008): Stage Manager, Roadies till 2016, MC in 2015 Jim Cox (2009): Security Walter Surdaki (2009): Counselors Abby Jackson (2010): Counselors John Micah Richardson (05-07, 2011) Evening Entertainment (till 2015), Counselors Aubrey Wood (2011) Coffee House (till 2015) Evening Entertainment, Morning Impact Shelby Kohring (2012) Sets Jessie Kohring (2012) Se...

For years I have reflected, disected and analyzed just about every aspect of Impact. I have always simply based my favorite years on how much I liked them. Honestly I have loved every year, but I am a habitual lister. Therefore, I constantly rank things and Impact is no different. So I decided to really delve deep into ranking the Impacts. I did not go into this biased to my personal favorite years. This is NOT my personal list but an objective look. My personal favorites would look different. I broke it down into seven categories and did it on a points system. My categories were: Theme, Assemblies (Keynotes, Praise time and evening events), Personal Impact, Stage, Morning Impact, Skit, and T-shirts. Now to be fair T-shirts really should not play as large a role into the rankings, so I weighted the categories. The major Impact things like: Theme and Personal impact, and Assemblies were weighed more heavily. The stage and skit kind of messed with the rankings a little since both have be...

For the past 18 years. I have dreaded this day. Much like a kid who has unwraped all of his Christmas presents as the morning he had looked forward to for months is now over. It is Saturday and all that is left of Impact 2009, is the long task of taking down the memories that had cemented themsleves in our minds for the past two weeks. I woke up early to take care of some plans for the Fall. I don't think I have ever been awake before ten in the morning on the last day before. I stumbled out of the room, made my long phone call and went about the business of gathering the many items like my sunglasses, Polcemans hat, and all the costumes and props that were spread across campus. Walking across the seemingly empty campus that had seemed so alive the proceeding day, is a bit of a depressing ritual. I was watching as bus load after bus load of campers rolled away.As I entered Allen Arena I watched and provided (very little) help to the take down crew. I assembled the signs, and props ...

Theses are the moments that can define Impact. Those moments when things just seem right . They are not, perhaps my personal favorite moments, I may do that later, just when the crowd goes wild or when God takes over. It does not seem right top rank these so in no paticular order.... - The appearence of Zach Hunter at Impact 07 and his inspiring words to our campers. Let no one despise you becuase of your youth. -Jars of Clay performs for the counselors at Impact 95. - The last night of The Mighty in 07. The skit had really been kind of off, honestly until the last night and the rallying cry Skid gave to the teens that they could do mighty things. - Courts Vesey shares her testimony at Impact 2000 "Because of the Wonderful Things He Does". - The last night of worship at Impact 99 Unmasked. If you were there you know what I am talking about. -Wes King plays "Holy Ghosts" at the very first Impact in 92 with the crowd singing along. It was an awesome moment one that Im...

10. "1998 Go West" The first attempt at a western was really good. Lee's last year to do the set. 9. "1996 Major League" Nice baseball set, the first year the set looked professional with bleachers on stage. 8. "2002 Sheild About Me" Who could forget that massive castle, a lot of hours went into that one. 7. "2006 The Story" Nice "pop-up" story book feel. 6. " 2001" Ten In Search of the Covenant" Complte with waterfall it felt like a jungle. 5. "2003 Deep" It actualy felt like you were underwater when you entered the auditorium 4. 2009 "The hiddeN": Another great Skidmore set, it was bright flashy and just perfect. 3. "2004 Escape" Nice prison camp motiff" 2. "2008 Day of Reckoning" Skid outdid himself this year. The arena looked like an actual Ghost Town. 1. "2004 This Mystery" The whole auditorium looked like a library very cool.

10. "2005 Escape" Security Shirt: Although it was a terrible shirt fit wise the black and blue camo look was cool. 9. "1996 Major League" A nice baseball look for 96, I especialy liked the long sleeve versions they put out that year. 8. "2008 Day of Reckoning" Roadie Shirt: I like black t-shirts, I thought it was the best of the three shirts this year. 7. "1992 Impact" Just about as plain as possoble, since we had no theme just Impact. A plain white shirt with a Bison that read Impact. 6. "2003 Deep" Camper Shirt: Nice Nautical navy blue shirt with " diver down" flag on it. 5. "1995 Live To Tell" Security Shirt: Red shirt with simple design, very good shirt. 4. "2000, Because Of The Wonderful Things He Does" Camper Shirt: Comfortable shirt, grey with simple logo 3. "2006 The Story" Roadie Shirt: Not the best color, a faded orange, but a great Smokey Bear design. 2. "2002, Sheild About Me...

2008: Day Of Reckoning: Year two in the big house. Without a doubt this was a great year, possibly the best theme and maybe even skit ever. I have no doubt that many of you will proclaim 2008 as your favorite year. There is a difference between my personal favorites and best themes, and skits. While the theme and skit are a big part, our personal favorites have more to do with things going on in our lives and the general week itself (perhaps you were baptized one year, making it your favorite). I can tell you for example that I thought (just my opinion) that as a theme I was not to high on “ 1995 Live To Tell” but the timing in my life was so perfect, it did not matter whether I liked the theme or not. This year was a little marred for me by my families various sicknesses as Amanda had strep, Brock took a nasty ear infection, Battle was okay, but Brewer my youngest was still dealing with a nasty cold. On top of this Amanda had to get healthy because she was leaving for a medical missio...