The preparations are in high gear right now as we are only four days away before our first wyldlife camp week here at Timber Wolf Lake. This past weekend we hosted over 200 volunteers from Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and beyond who came to help us clean, repair, and do maintainance all around camp. It was definitely a long weekend with an 11 hour day on Saturday and a 9 hour day on Sunday working in the kitchen. Some of the cleaning adventures I led included thorough cleaning in the cooler, the freezer, deep scrubbing grease off the hoods, power cleaning the floors, and cleaning the front line. Fun stuff! But as tiring as it was, we were able to get a lot accomplished because of the great attitudes and work ethic of the volunteers in the kitchen.
After the cleaning marathon was over Sunday I was able to head home for 24 hours to see the family. It was definitely great to hang out, have a home cooked meal, and play some board games together. Also, I was able to go to GR and catch up with some good friends, dominate some bean bag toss and have some delicious ice cream sandwich pie. All in all it was a good trip.
Then back to camp I went, ready to start our new week. It feels a bit wierd here because we are so close to the campers arriving. While we are busy with final preparations, everyone still knows things will change drastically once the assigned team, work crew, summer staff, and over 500 campers arrive shortly. It is easy to get anxious about what things will look like then. However, I have found quite a bit of encouragement from my devotions in Romans this past week. Here's one verse that stood out this morning. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have today.
"May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Romans 15:5-6).
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