Water

It's either falling at great rates from the sky, or disappearing from our holding tanks. How can you have too much and not enough of the same thing? On Wednesday morning, I got a call that there was no running water in half of the camp. Not good. I checked one of our tanks which holds approx 22,000 gallons and it was empty. Not good. After spending much of the day looking for a leak, we figured out that the pump 360 feet in the ground that fed that holding tank wasn't pumping the volume of water it normally did. The pump had finally wore out. It was good to find the source of the problem but pulling and replacing pumps is expensive. The bright side of this is that because of the rain we've had, our underground aquifers were providing plenty of water to our other tanks to keep up with the demand at camp. Thank the Lord for providing. Today I'm enjoying a day off at home.

Camp has begun

It's official...237 campers showed up on Sunday and we kicked off another summer season! It started out a little rocky on Sunday morning. Right after I signed off, it began raining harder than it has in a long time and it flooded two of our basements. We have an incredible staff here that all pulled together to get stuff cleaned up. By the time the campers arrived, it was hard to notice it had rained so hard here. Praise God he spared us from any worse flooding! Please pray for us as we enter into this season. Every area of our ministry is affected in some way with this much going on. Kevin, our food service coordinator said they fed 467 people at lunch yesterday! Whoa!

1st day of camp

It's Sunday morning and we're hanging out with the kids while they act like monkeys. I was going to mow, but it's raining, and I'd rather be doing this anyway.
Today is the first day of camp. It's an awesome time around here. Anticipation is high. Jude is playing the harmonica. India is strumming a guitar that plays metal music while she sings Jesus Loves Me at the top of her lungs. It's a good day
OK, back to the madness!