Camp Plans

Of course we’re in the midst of final preparations for camp. It’s amazing how after 9 years of doing these camps, that things still are more difficult than anticipated.

I noticed that the difficulties come in the fact that we have a turn-over of leadership through the years and we have to continually train the new “batch” that is up and coming.

This year, of the entire leadership team that is working on the Big House Camp, only 7 of the 18 who are involved in any part of the leadership have had any experience with our camps. That means that 13 of them are first-time leaders (that’s 61% of our team). Of those 7, a few of those are not as involved this year as they have been in the past, so a greater burden lays on the “newcomers.”

Don’t take this as a complaint. I don’t mean it that way at all. It’s just a reality of our situation in working with young people. In some ways, this what we’re here to do - train others so that they can train others and on and on and on.

The positive side of this is to see the number of young people who do learn new skills and have new experiences that open up their “vistas.”

I am thankful for these young people (yikes! I sound like an old geezer!) and all that they are doing for this camp. It’ll make the camp because of their part as God uses them. Please pray for all of these young & older people:
        Michelle                Emily                Hannah                Martin        Eli        Dasa                Rasto                Tomas                Jennifer        Sally Sue
        Patricia                Jamie                Nancy                Linda        Kelly
        Lenka                Matt                        Chris                

Thanks for your prayer support! Please pray that these people are tools in the hands of our Creator to impact the lives of the young people coming to camp (which starts this Sunday!).