Clint Helbley
Post-storm Help Leads to Prize
The gusts paused and water receded into the expansive Wyoming wilderness, leaving the kindly Pathfinders under a spectacular rainbow. While helping other clubs impacted by the storm, Emory Bailey, teen leadership participant, heard of the opportunity to participate in the Campfire Cooking Challenge. Bailey, with the Cherokee Pathfinder Club (combined clubs of the Calhoun and Georgia-Cumberland Academy churches), jumped at the chance for another adventure, and enlisted the help of his trusty sous chefs, Gavin Helbley and Michael Turner. Together they registered for the three-day Campfire Cooking Challenge.
On the first night, Bailey led the team to create a Campfire Eu Claire. This decadent dish ensures that any Pathfinder can enjoy a sugar rush before bedding for the night. The judges agreed, and all celebrated the victory of night #1.
Upping the ante, the competition required a unique spin on the Adventist “haystack.” Bailey and company went to task cogitating over the most mundane collection of food-stuffs. But, their attention to detail and culinary prowess again paid off. The competition that evening was more pronounced. The corn chips dropped, the beans were beanie, the vegetables were varied and copious, the cheese, the dressings, the pickles … Wait? Pickles? On a haystack? Yes, that is what stood out about the Southern-Stack — straight from the mind of Bailey to the judges table.
Yet again, joy resounded as they celebrated the victory of night two.
Night three brought a moment of distress to the three chefs, as they struggled to determine a cooking path for both lentils and “manna.” Wandering Walmart as well as other food trucks, they sought to procure ingredients to meet the new demand. Placing the final product before the judges, Bailey waited impatiently. Would he be the first to win all three nights of cooking competition? The announcement of his name brought resounding whoops from all three boys, and, with medals in hand, they bounded back to the campsite.
In reflection, Bailey shared that helping others with the storm gave him the opportunity to hear about the competition. Something good coming out of a difficult time … what a reminder that God is in the smallest details and can always work things for good.
A longer version of this story is available at www.gccsda.com/news/11466.
Georgia-Cumberland | October 2024
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