As I am writing this, we are in our last week of camp. I will be including a camp update in our September email newsletter. We have a had a great summer, I want to just take a moment and thank everyone that has been involved in our summer camp program. We have had an exceptional group of Event Coordinators that have planned some wonderful camps and brought a great group of faculty. All of our Event Coordinators and faculty volunteer their time to serve the Lord in helping shape young lives for Christ. I want to thank everyone that has helped in this way. I also want to thank our kitchen crew and volunteers, it was a little different this year with some staff transitions. We did miss Janelle Lloyd as our food service manger, but welcomed Kristin Boruff as our new food service manager. We had a great team of maintenance guys who kept the grass and weeds down and maintained our buildings. So much goes into these 10 weeks of camp. I do want to BRAG on our summer staff. We had a wonderful group that made a committment for 12 weeks to be dorm R.A.'s, facilitate recreation and life guard, they clean and flip our buildings from camp session to camp session. What a GREAT group we had this summer!  The summer staff works between 10 and 15 hours a day. They do this without much apprecation and with little sleep. They have sacrificed family, vacations, time hanging out with friends and finances. They do not get much pay, and yet they have maintaned their faithfulness to the kingdom through serving. With this group of young people we have a GREAT future ahead of us. Whatever they do in life, they will look at serving with a different set of lenses. So, let me just GIVE everyone a BIG THANK YOU! I can't wait to share our numbers in next month's newsletter!

Gary Baker - Executive Director