Mark your calendars!

Staffers,

Thanks to everyone that's come out to belay, help, or facilitate for some of our August events!! I've had a blast so far and its great to see you again. Here's a list of everything going on up through the end of September:

Sat.Aug.28- tower and challenge 1-4pm. WAKW paintball booth 11am-9pm
Sat.Sept.4- (Labor Day Weekend)- zipline 1-3pm (two more spots)
Sat.Sept.11- zipline- 1-2:30 (one more spot)
Sun.Sept.26- zipline- afternoon, time TBA (two more spots)
Wed.Sept.29- zip and tower 6-8pm. CHCA (Lance's school) 6th grade (4 more spots)
Thurs.Sept.30- zip and tower 6-8pm. CHCA (Lance's school) 6th grade (4 more spots)

These are open to any past staff who enjoy belaying and facilitating group challenges. If you are interested in coming, YOU MUST CALL OR EMAIL ME prior to the date- I only need so many and they do fill up.

Also, be thinking about a staff reunion of some kind this fall...maybe October. Could be at camp or away. Any ideas?

I hope that your heart's always warm

It is odd to no longer see campers running around with counselors and meeting at the mast for dinner.

One of the hardest things for me last year was leaving this wonderful community of brothers and sisters- not just the leaving but the living without seeing their faces every day week in and week out. But because of the pain God taught me a huge lesson about relationships.

In the absence of those wonderful and intensely close relationships that I yearned for, I realized that God, the one who I claim to be my best friend, was calling for me and He could be even better than what I had here at camp.

It was a hard winter, but my relationship with God blossomed and I craved more time with him to learn more about him, to feel his touch on my life- and it happened. Not all at once, and not easily, but it has made the prospect of life possibly without those people all the more tolerable, even exciting, because no matter what God has promised me he will always be with me, wherever I go. (Joshua 1:9)

I love you guys, and I do miss you. I really hope you fall even more in love with Jesus this winter, and that He remains the most important focus of your lives.