Halfway through week six of summer 2011! Typically, the camps that come here are youth groups, so they know each other to some extent, and they have their leaders to help provide focus and accountability. But this week we have a junior high/high school camp with the kids who want to come to Bighorn for a camp, but their youth group is not coming. It is an exciting opportuity for these kids to meet some new people, and also for the facilitators to really provide leadership and pull the group together through team building iniatives and events.
Anjeli is a facilitator this week, she has the only girls group so they all hang out together, and we call them her posse. (In the best possible sense you can think of) All the facilitators for this week are super friendly, and good with people, and I am so encouraged by their willingness to invest in their kids.
DeLancey is TACing rock climbing and looking all hardcore while she does it. She is very capable, and is taking responsibility well this summer.
Through brainstorming how to keep extremely distracted junior high twelve year old guys focused; making brake lines for the high static; and scrubbing twenty dirty pizza pans, the summer staff is learning and maturing. We have been able to have some insightful conversations with each other, and be minstered to as we minister to others. I am really blessed to be working with the facilitators, and am learning a lot about leadership. I don’t feel as if I ever do anything good myself, I just look back on what happened, and say “Wow. Thanks for doing that, God!” Because there really are great things going on, and it has nothing to do with me!
I hope you are having a lovely summer, please find rest sometime. I am thanking God for Camp Bighorn and how He has changed me through its ministry. How cool is it, that God doesn’t stop there, but continues to teach me by giving me opportunity to be involved in His work here. Thank you for your part in this ministry, may you be blessed tenfold!
Here are some pictures of the kids that have joined us this summer...
Happy birthday to Jesse Isaac Doty, he is twelve today!
--faith
Praise be to God for His good work in your life and those of your sisters, other staff and campers this summer at Camp Bighorn. Your "just a glimpse" of what's going on is, in fact, a rich verbal and photographic collage. Thank you for all you've shared. It's also great to see your brief comments on your sisters' activities and your perspectives on how they're doing. Exceedingly well, evidently! :)
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ReplyDeleteDitto, David!
I laughed. I cried. It moved me, Bob.
Thanks for the glimpse, Faith. I was impressed by much of what you're saying during my week there. God is doing something very good in that corner of the world! Love you! Jessica
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