A Tribute to the Man I Love

My dad is the most amazing person I know. He is a man of sacrifice and love. He gives and has given so much time, energy and hard work into our family; making ends meet, supporting us in every step of life, providing security, teaching discipline, and most of all showing us the kind of love that can only come from an intimate relationship with our Savior. He is a man of God.

He's that guy. That guy that everyone knows. That guy that can start a conversation out of thin air with anyone. That guy that you have one conversation with and you remember him forever. That guy that will go above and beyond. That guy that will do anything and everything to protect and provide for his wife and family. I love him dearly.

I grew up being refered to as "Jimmy's daughter" and this was something I was never ashamed of, but rather so proud. I am so proud of my dad. I love when people ask me about him and I can boast about how amazing he is. That he can do anything anyone asks him to do. I love telling about his numerous jobs that cover the whole map. He knows how to do so much and he does it all with excellence. He is a fantastic nurse, a supportive boss, has had management positions in the hospital, has been the manager of an ice park, an independent business owner making wood furniture, a director of oporations at Covenant, a chef, a student and on top of all those things a loving husband and father.

He is the leader of our household and I hope one day I find a man who is half as amazing as my dad. I don't want to have to learn how to call the plumber, or contractor, or electrician, or mechanic, or anything like that. Growing up, calling wasn't a question, you just "ask dad to look at it."

Thank you dad for all that you have given to our family. I would not know our Lord and Savior the way I do now if it wasn't for the way you and mom raised us. Thank you for being an example. Thank you for trusting in the Lord. Thank you for your leadership. I love you!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

(a day late, sorry, I have no concept of days here)

The Name Above All Names

Yesterday was quite possibly the worst day on waterfront this year. It was rough. Really hard. Relationally and logistically. Things were said, walls were put up, attitudes were present. It was really hard for me. Definitely a rough day...

...But...today...was by far the best day on the waterfront this year!!! Thank you Jesus! It is 100 percent, completely because of the Lord. God is so good. Everything fell into place. Finally today, things were how they were supposed to be. It felt so right and so good. I have no idea what went differently today, nobody did anything differently, but somehow we finished set up way earlier than we have been, everyone was in great spirits, there were positive attitudes everywhere and I saw some things that I know made the Lord smile. And campers had fun! That's the most important part.

Thank you so much for all of your prayers. They are definitely making a difference. I can feel it. Thank you to whoever prayed for sunshine. The rain was wearing on our attitudes and yesterday it didn't rain as it was supposed to and today we got to see the sun! It was awesome. Please continue to pray for our summer staffers, that they would finish out these last four days strong. Please pray for our summer staffers who will be arriving shortly. Pray that the boat drivers and lifeguards all pass their tests! This makes a huge difference in the logistics of things. Please pray for each spot on the waterfront that God would strategically place the nine people he wants in those spots. Thank you so much for praying!

Full of Fun!

Yesterday was an absolutely fantastic day. It was so much fun! I had off, which always helps. I went to brunch and then club. The say so was, again, awesome. God is so good and the Kingdom is definitely growing! There were 150 kids at the new believers walk yesterday morning and the leaders asked for 175 Bibles. There were close to 100 kids who stood up for the say so. How awesome is that?! It is so encouraging and amazes me every week. God is so good and so powerful. Great way to start the day.

I then went with some other interns to play a round of Frisbee golf. We normally play in teams cause then it doesn't take quite as long, but there were just a few of us so we played individually. It was the first time I ever played a whole game by myself, and I'm really bad. I ended up with plus five, but I was okay with it. I did get a hole in one on one of the holes so that was exciting!

Anyway, after that I went with some of the intern guys up to the mountain bikes and we went on some of the trails. It's been raining here A LOT so it was really muddy and we biked through a ton of puddles. I'm really bad at mountain biking and it makes me really nervous. My hands always start to hurt cause I grip the handle bars so tight. I was pretty scared the whole time and almost turned back at the beginning but the guys wouldn't let me. I was really glad I did the whole thing. After a while I got a lot more comfortable with it. We went on the hard course, but it was really fun. Really muddy, but definitely fun.

These are the crazy guys I went with. Matt, Chocklett, Charlie and Derrick.

We got really dirty! Matt tackled Chocklett in a puddle and they fought for a while. It was hilarious!

After mountain biking we played volleyball. It was the first time I was able to play so far because of my wrist, but it is getting better, so I played. We played two on two and Bob (my boss) and I were on a team together. We're both really competitive, but I'm not very good at volleyball. It was really fun though. We won the first game, but lost the second.

After volleyball, Bob, Chocklett and I played the front nine of the Frisbee golf course to kill some time. The workcrew and summer staff went to a minor league baseball game for their day off, and we wanted to go tubing, but had to wait until they left. After Frisbee golf for the second time we went tubing.

Brittany, Sam and I in our wetsuits cause it was a little cold because of all the rain we've been having.

The boys in the three person tube. David (property staff), Chocklett and Sam.

This was David and I on the individual tubes. So much FUN!!!

Tubing is literally one of my favorite things ever. It is so funny to me that sitting on a tube behind a boat can be so great. We got out the really big three person tube that we use for family camp or younglives camp. It was surprisingly fun and we were just messing around for a while. Then we did some normal tubing, which is two single tubes behind the boat. Bob and I went together and Chocklett drove. It was really fun. We definitely got a lot of air. It is super exhausting though. I tubed on the individual tubes for like 30 minutes straight which kills your arms, especially when the driver is trying to throw you off. It was so much fun though that I didn't want to stop. I love tubing! (if you didn't get the picture)

After tubing we went to Kyle and Kathy's house for dinner. They had a ton of food and it was really good. There were venison kabobs, hot dogs, chicken, mac and cheese, chips, dip and beans. The venison was really good. We just hung out and ate and then a few of us stayed at their house and played Scattegories. It was really fun. That game is a really fun group game. And I won, so that always makes it more fun :)

After that, I crashed. I was so exhausted. It was a busy day full of activities. I wanted to go for a run and work out and stuff, but didn't have time and I figured I did enough physical activity for the day. I am definitely sore today from tubing. My arms are dead. It was so much fun though! An awesome day off. It was really exhausting, but somehow surprisingly relaxing as well. I don't know how that works, but it was. Just not having a schedule is really nice.

New campers come today! Yay! The weather has been pretty crummy lately. We've had a ton of rain, so prayers for beautiful weather would be awesome. It's raining out right now and is supposed to thunder storm, so I don't know what that looks like for our welcomes today, but hopefully everything will run smoothly. Please be praying for these campers, and for my summer staff. We have to wake up 15 minutes earlier tomorrow since they have been having trouble getting there on time. It's been hard. I hate being the "mean guy," but them being late cuts into our devotional time. Please pray that the dynamics of our group would piece together nicely, that we would all be working towards the same goal and striving to get there with excellence. Please pray that I would be able to shower them with grace, as grace has been showered upon me.

Week 2

This week has been...interesting. Fun, energetic, challenging, frustrating, good, and hard all at the same time. We have whole new camp of campers and they are actually about to leave. Charlottesville area is here this week, so that has been fun. I got to see some of my leaders from high school and one of my good friends from high school came with his guys as a leader, so it has been fun to see them. There are a couple campers who just graduated that I know because they are in Justin's grade and it's been really fun throwing them off the tubes. Lots of old faces, which makes me feel old. I ran into Lilly Wardell yesterday. I don't know how we haven't seen each other all week, but we stopped and talked for a while. I can't believe she's going to be a junior! So crazy. And then yesterday I was tubing Andrew, who is a CHS leader, and another kid, who I didn't know. Then when the other kid feel off, as I was going around to pick him up, I realized it was Gabriel Hunter-Chang! I used to babysit him!

It's been a lot of fun. All the guys love to go crazy on the tubes and I love throwing them off. I gave rides to Charles' whole cabin yesterday and he was telling me how his guys kept talking about how the highlight of their days is when they go tubing with me and I give them a crazy ride. It was really encouraging to hear him say that and knowing that I am helping these kids have the best week of their lives. The familiar faces have been really fun, even though they make me feel really old.

The behind the scenes things have been hard. I'm learning a lot about leadership and how hard it is. I've never been in such a demanding leadership role. We have bible study once a week with all the interns and we've been talking about leadership, what our spiritual gifts are and the ways in which we lead. I've been learning things about myself that are obvious, and I knew, but I am realizing how different my brain is than other people's.

I lead in order to reach a goal. Yesterday in our bible study we took a little test to see how we lead and then we got in groups and talked about it. I was in the "lion" group. We are goal oriented and like to get things done. We talked about how we all loved making lists and crossing things off of them (even writing down things we've already done, just so we can cross it off). I am someone who is bold and will step forward and take initiative in situations. I am also detail oriented and analyze everything to make sure I am doing things in the most efficient way possible. I'm a thinker. I've know this, this is not some new revelation for me, but I'm learning how it plays into my role as a leader and am realizing that not all people are receptive to it.

I've been a little frustrated and feel like I'm not doing a good job leading. There is part of me that just doesn't even know what else to do. We've talked with our summer staff multiple times, taken different approaches with it, and I am so sick of nagging. It is exhausting and not fun. They are tired, which is completely understandable, but some things are starting slack. I can't seem to motivate them to strive the extra mile for excellence. I think Lisa and I are on the same page of pursuing excellence in every way possible, which is great, I'm really glad we see it the same way and both desire to put in the extra effort to make things just a little bit better. It's been hard though to get our summer staffers to want this themselves. It seems like we have to nag them and make them do things rather than them thinking to do it on their own.

The thing that keeps coming back to me is the line in Remember the Titans that makes a 180 flip for the team. "Attitude reflects leadership." This is so true and it makes me feel like I am failing because I don't love all the attitudes I see. I do have to say that there are some attitudes that I love. We definitely have really hard workers and people that go above and beyond. We just don't seem to all be there yet, and we can't work as a cohesive unit and body if we're not all on the same page. I just get frustrated when I'm not doing a good job and am out of new ideas. How do you motivate people to strive for excellence and how do you lead people spiritually who are not getting in the word? That is the problem. That is the root of it all. They have to get in the word, but I can't make them do it.

We do devotions every morning and the assignment team has asked us to do this bible study on Mark. So we have been going through the daily devotional every morning, but it just gets frustrating. They don't read it, so they have nothing to contribute (again not all of them, but the majority). We've talked to them about getting in the word and talking with each other about what the Lord is teaching them and such, but it hasn't seemed to make a difference. I just need to constantly be in prayer about all of this. I want them to be growing. I want them to have a stronger relationship with the Lord. I want to encourage them in their walk.

It's been hard. It's been a challenge for me and it's been frustrating. But I am up for the challenge and I think God has a lot he is teaching me. Please pray that God would give me grace to pour out on out summer staffers and that they would be truly seeking after him. Please pray for the campers as they close out the week tomorrow and head home and please pray for the campers that will come on Saturday, that their hearts would be open. Thank you all so much for investing time into praying and reading. You are all awesome and such an encouragement to me.

Amazingness

Well I have a little catching up to do, but all of it has been amazing. Yesterday I had the day off. It was fantastic and necessary. I was the only intern who was off that went to brunch (I can't miss a meal) and then I went to club with the campers. It was great. Todd spoke about what it means to really stand with God; to get out of the ship and walk on water. And then there was the "say so," which is such an encouragement and the reason I am here. The say so is when kids publically stand up, introduce themselves, and tell the rest of the camp that "this week I decided to surrender my life to Christ." What amazing words to come out of a high schoolers mouth! The Kingdom is growing!

It is always such an encouragement to see that what I am doing here is changing people's lives. I love when kids who I've built a relationship with throughout the week stand up in the say so. Yesterday there was a boy, Louis, who I had driven on the tubes multiple times who stood up and said, "this week I found a new best friend." How awesome is that!

There were around 250 campers last week (a really really small week) and I would say around 30 of them stood up for the say so. In the morning Todd did a new believers walk and there were 70-80 kids there and when we asked how many Bibles we needed to hand out to kids it was close to 100. Please pray for these campers; that their decisions made here at camp would go home with them. Please pray that their hearts have genuinely been changed and they will grow deeper in thier relationship with the Lord. Please pray for guidance for the leaders, that they would be able to help and encourage thier campers.

So that was a great way to start my day off. Then all of the intern girls who had off went shopping, but I didn't go. I'm lame, I know...but I'm really glad I stayed back. The mall is about an hour away and I had some things I wanted to get done and I wanted to make sure I actually rested on my day off. I also didn't need to go shopping for anything. So I stayed back and got a lot done. I cleaned my room, vacuumed and did a lot of laundry, which was very needed. I then got to go work out. It was so good and so much fun! I went for a run and then went to the mini weight room thats on camp. My body was definitely in need of some movement and it reminded me how much I enjoy being active. It has been really hard to find time to run, but I'm hoping to get better at it. When I'm active I'm instantly in a better mood and feel much better. Crazy how that works.

I was also able to call my brother JJ yesterday and wish him a happy birthday! Happy 25th Birthday JJ! I also got to call my dad and talk to him on the phone for a little bit. I also talked with one of my summer staffers for a little while. God is teaching me (I'll talk about this later).

Once the girls got back a bunch of us went out for pizza and bowling. It was really fun. There is a really old school bowling alley here where you have to keep your own score. It was really fun, but I literally played the worst game of my life. I was constantly trying to suppress my competitiveness, which I think I did a pretty good job of. It was fun to hang out and I love bowling. Overall it was an awesome day. Definitely relaxing, which was so great and I was able to just spend the day with the Lord. It was one of those days where there was no schedule and no rush so we just got to talk all day. I'm learning what constant prayer looks like. It's a lot harder when your really busy and have a million things to do and think about, but I know it's not impossible, so I will continue to learn.

Today was also a great day. I got up early and went for another run. I didn't want to while I was in bed, but once I was out running I was so glad I made myself go. I have so much more energy when I work out in the morning and I feel so much better. We then had a really great Bible study with the waterfront group (this goes along with the stuff God has been teaching me, I'll make a different blog about it).

We then had brunch, an all camp meeting, finished up some things on the waterfront and got ready for the welcome. Today is day one of week two. Charlottesville is here this week, so I know a couple of the campers because they are Justin's friends, so that was fun. It's so crazy that they all just graduated! I feel so old. It was just a great day today. I don't know, nothing special happened, it was just a great day. I drove the boats for a little while and then just did whatever needed to be done on the waterfront. Thank you for your prayers, the Lord is continually showing me grace.

And to top off my great day, I got a fantastic care package from my community group! Thank you guys so much for thinking of me and sending me something! You all are amazing!

It had quite an assortment of things from sunglasses to waterballoons to gum and snacks. And of course, beautiful pictures drawn by none other than the artists of Ally and Jake. I just need to get some tape and they will be going up on the wall in my room. Thank you guys so much! It was the perfect way to top off a great day.

Wasting away/Daily renewal

Well, it's day 6 of week one and I'm already feeling the 5:45 mornings. I'm tired; I feel worn and weary. I hate the feeling. But at the same time I know that this is when the Lord demands I cling to him. I have no other option. He has to be my source of strength; my source of energy. This feeling stinks, but at the same time, it's what I asked for. When everything is going just fine, I forget my need. I am desperate. Exhaustion reminds me of just how desperate I really am.

I can do nothing on my own.

My flesh hates that, but my spirit loves it. I am so thankful I can rely on a God who will meet my every need. As my body gets weak, the Lord is stirring my soul. The fire has been lit and I long to cling to the cross. I want to spend every waking moment with my Jesus. I want to dive into his word, I want to spend time in prayer, I want to become more like him. It's what 2 Corinthians 4 talks about.

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting

away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day."

I am wasting away, but the Lord renews my spirit. What an amazing God we serve! He renews my soul everyday. He is so worthy of praise.

Please pray for rest and renewal not only for me, but also for the summer staffers. They are tired. Please pray for the campers. Tonight is the cross talk. Many of them will hear for the first time the amazing love story. Pray that their hearts will be open and they will understand the love of the Father.

Mark

Our summer staff have arrived and camp has started! It has been amazing. Busy, exhausting, fun, spirit filled, and amazing. Our waterfront summer staff are great! We have a good group of hard workers, which is exactly what we need. For those of you who don't know, summer staff are college students who volunteer for a month to serve the campers and run camp. Lisa and I, the waterfront interns, are in charge of 9 waterfront summer staffers. They run the waterfront, and we just make sure everything goes smoothly. They are a great group. We have lots of energy in our group which is soon going to be crucial.

I have to share this story with you, because it just makes me smile. Our God is so faithful! He is so good and so much bigger than we could ever imagine!

Okay, so because our summer staffers are on the waterfront, they have to be lifeguards. To make it easier for them, we do a life guarding class here at camp before things start so they can all get certified. So our summer staffers came earlier than most.

Thursday morning at breakfast there were a few new faces. These are the waterfront summer staffers. So I go around and introduce myself and there is this guy there that looks really familiar. I feel like I know him somehow, but I have no idea how. I just figured he looked like someone. He said his name was Mark. Sounded right, but still didn't ring a bell. I didn't say anything to him and just figured I was going crazy.

So half way through the day he turns to me and says he can't figure out where he knows me from. Okay good, I'm not crazy! I told him he looked really familiar too and I didn't know how I knew him. We ran through everything. He's from Pennsylvania, he's two years younger than me, no relation to anyone, nothing. I asked him if he had ever been to Champion before. He said he came as a camper two years ago. At first he thought it was in July, but we figured out it was in June, which is when I did summer staff two years ago. Crazy.

So after talking we figured out that he was one of those campers just like me. They LOVE tubing! When I did summer staff here two years ago, I loved hanging out with and getting to know the campers who were like me. I loved doing tube check out and learning the names of the crazy kids who loved tubing as much as I did. Mark was one of those guys. We couldn't believe that after two years we still recognized each other. God works in mysterious ways.

Saturday I got a chance to chat with Mark while we were getting drinks for everyone and hear parts of his testimony.

He met the Lord here, two years ago.

I got to indirectly be a piece of his testimony. That's awesome.

He had never heard the gospel before, until camp at Champion two years ago in June. And now, He has turned from the ways of the world and is living a life that longs to further The Kingdom! God is so good! Mark is now sacrificing a month of his time and energy to give campers the same experience he was given.

It was so awesome to see the reward of my month in June of 2007. What a gift from God. It is so great that he would encourage me right from the beginning that the work I am doing here actually is expanding The Kingdom. It is so humbling that he would choose to use me. I am nothing. He is everything.

I just saw this as a testament to God's faithfulness and power. I am daily in awe. It is also an awesome circle of Young Life. That Mark came as a camper while I was here, got saved, is now a leader himself, and is one of my summer staffers. So awesome. So encouraging.

This is such a great reminder for me as well. The long days, early mornings and extreme exhaustion are beyond worth it to know that lives are being changed. The Kingdom will grow by the thousands this summer because of Young Life camps around the world! And that is a testament to the Lord, not Young Life. I feel so honored to be a part of it. It makes it all so worth it to know that high schoolers are hearing, learning about and meeting Jesus, Our Savior who took my sin upon himself so that I could have a relationship with him. Man, God is good!

Girls Night

I have gotten so behind. I want to be better, I am just really pressed for time. There are a couple things I want to go back and highlight and then I will try to stay on top of things.

The intern girls tried a couple times to have a girls night before the summer officially started, since our schedules are all so different. Friday night we finally got it to work out. I have to say, initially I was a little hesitant. I wanted to do a girls night and some of us had already talked about just sharing with each other, but when you say girl night, I get a little anxious. Painting nails and putting make up on kinds of girls nights don't go over quite so well with me. So I was a little unsure, but it turned out to be absolutely amazing. We just wanted to sit down and talk about things and get to know each other on a deeper level. Girls mentioned things they struggle with or find offensive or things like that, just because we're all living together, but for the majority of it we just shared our lives with each other. We went around and talked about why we are here personally, how we got here and what some of our goals are for this summer. It was a lot of fun and the Lord was definitely with us. I'm so excited for this summer and am anticipating what the Lord has for me here. I loved that night. Hearing peoples testimonies and stories is literally my favorite thing in the world. I could have sat there for hours and hours just sharing life. Building relationships is definitely something that takes time, but I love when people are intentional about it. God is so good and I am ready for this summer of lives being changed. Mine included.

Rivers, Tents and Fellowship

(sorry I have a ton of catching up to do!) (I've been working on this one post in chunks of time over the last week)

(Last)Monday and Tuesday were a ton of fun! Monday we woke up and went canoeing down the Delaware River. The river was running really fast and it was really fun.

Alli, Lisa, Anna, and Brittany!

Jeremy (property staff), Charlie, Doug, Sam and Derrick

There were definitely quite a few parts that were rough and had rapids. We all got wet, but it was a ton of fun. Two canoes tipped in the rapids. I had my camera with me in my back pack and was just praying it wouldn't get ruined (it didn't!). We were canoeing in the middle of rolling green hills and it was gorgeous outside. It was fantastic.

How gorgeous is God's creation!?! It was absolutely amazing!

Krissa and Doug in the background, then Sam and Chocklett

Chocklett and I were in a canoe together and I was able to share with him what God did in my life in the past year. It was really awesome to look back and see God's hand at work and his amazing faithfulness. He is such a faithful God and I am utterly dependent on him. We canoed down the river and then got out and had a picnic lunch.

Sam, Chocklett, Brittany and Krissa!

It was so amazing to be in such a beautiful atmosphere and surrounded by awesome people. I am so excited about our intern group this summer and the beginning of the week was a great time for all of us to hang out and unify as a group. Canoeing didn't take as long as it should have because the river was running so fast. We came back to camp and had about 2.5 hours until we were going to leave to go camping. We all put in a movie and took a nap. It was fantastic.
Later we went camping right around the corner at a campground that basically never gets used. We were the only ones there and it was really fun to just get off camp together as a group. We just hung out, played games, and talked by the fire. We had burgers and hot dogs for dinner and of course made s'mores. (above is Kyle making the burgers. He is one of my favorite people ever!) We also shot off some fireworks that were left over from the wedding. It was such a great time to just get to know the other interns better and hang out as a whole group before the summer starts. Cause once camp starts, we will all have completely different schedules. It was so good to hang out and fellowship together.

Waterfront at it's best! Love this girl!

We left the camp ground pretty early the next morning and I basically had meetings all day. We met as the interns for a really long time. It was so good though. We were informed about our role with our summer staffers and interacting with the assignment team and everything like that. It was really helpful. We also went over the basics for camp and our vision for this summer. It definitely got me pumped up for campers to come. We also spent a while talking as a group about living in community. We talked about what we wanted our community to look like, how we wanted to be remembered and what we were going to do in order to make that happen. I love just putting things out there like that. The meetings were all really long, but I actually really enjoyed them. I had been waiting for a time for all of us to be together and focus on what it is that we are doing, what our purpose is and why we are here. We are all here for the thousands of campers that are coming this summer. We all want to love on and change the lives of high schoolers. I can't wait!

Blessings

Yesterday was full of blessings. Amazing blessings from God. I got to sleep in and spend a lot of time with the Lord in the morning. Then we had pizza for lunch and hung out with all the interns. Then a group of us went to Wal-mart to get some things. On the way back we stopped for ice cream, which is always a good thing. When we got back I finished my blog from yesterday and cleaned my room. It is so nice to have a day off where you can just catch up on everything. At 4:30 Lisa and I went out on the boat and learned how to drive wake boarders. It wasn't too hard at all, I just had to get used to them pulling the boat a little bit from side to side.

After that some of the interns went tubing. I got to go and, man, I love it! I put a wet suit on cause it was cold and I went with Chocklett. Lisa trashed us. It was really fun and one time I hit a wave and I literally flew like 10 feet in the air. It was crazy. And somehow, I'm not sure how, I managed to stay on. It was so much fun. I was so glad I got the opportunity to do it because I literally think it was my only chance this summer. Yesterday was the first time, and the last, since I've been here that there weren't any campers. Once the summer starts, there aren't any opportunities to do things like that. I'll have a day off, but there will still be campers here and I wouldn't take their turn tubing. And then when there are roll over days, that is a break for the summer staffers and so we drive them and run rides and things for them. So I was really glad I got to go cause I absolutely love tubing! After dinner Lisa and I had to go out and put more time on the boat. It was really cold out so we pretty much just sat in the middle of the lake doing circles. It was a really great time though. We put some worship music and on and we were just praising together. Then we turned it down and talked for a little bit. We made the commitment to one another that if we ever have a problem this summer we will approach each other and not talk to other people about it. We don't need to go to another intern or one of our summer staffers or anything like that. I'm really excited about working with Lisa and we get along really well. We're both pretty easy going and just go with the flow. I don't really for see anything becoming a problem, but when you are around someone for that long everyday, things are bound to happen. So it was great to just talk about that and talk about how we want to lead our summer staffers and not have a waterfront click. I'm getting really excited about this summer starting.

Today we get to go on an intern adventure! All we know is that we need to wear something that can get wet and we're going to be outside all day. I'm really excited about all of us hanging out together and just getting to know each other better. We have today and tomorrow reserved for our outing, so we'll see what else we have in store. Then Wednesday some of our summer staffers who are going to be boat drivers are coming and taking their test, Thursday is lifeguard training (I think I have to be the victim for that), I think Friday the rest of summer staff comes and Saturday we get campers! And then it is busy, busy, busy until I'm done in August! I'm really excited and really praying that God would be at work this summer, in my heart as well as everyone else who steps foot on this camp.

Please pray for our time together as interns, that we would become one unified group and we would encourage each other in our walks with the Lord. Please pray for our summer staffers that are coming for the June session. That they would be ready to work hard and long hours and they would have the attitudes of servants. Please pray for the campers, that the Lord would be preparing their hearts to hear the most amazing love story in the world!