And it starts!!!

This week we started staff training here at CdC.  Always a fun time.  It is a week full of classes, preparation and craziness.  Here's a quick look at the some of the first day.

Señor Gamble, our fearless leader, surrounded by admiring counselors

staff on the way to class so they might fill there heads with useful knowledge

this years speaker, Mr. Brent Befus

fierce GaGa competition

the Olympic torch!!!!

ooh, the torch!

 

Please be praying for this year's staff and for the month ahead! 

Rush Creek Bible Church Work Team

If you've ever been to Puerto Rico for a visit to CdC and happened into our house, you would see something like the below. Actually that or bare cement, or painted over cement, or faded yellow linoleum with black patches on the really high traffic areas. It's been that way for years.

Until these wonderful gentlemen came two weeks ago.  They came and got right to work grinding,  chippy hammering, spreading smelly black goo around.... The kids and I had moved everything out of our house a couple of days before, and spent the week in our temporary house (aka dorm room). 

They moved on to thin setting and troweling and laying tile, and tadaa!!  the floor is now so beautiful we could eat our family meals off of it.  Yes, they are kissing their handiwork.  They spent a lot of time with those tiles....

Here's the rest of the gang, minus Mr Rick who went home early after welding his way through a list much to Jon's delight.  The girls kept busy cleaning and organizing and soaking up the sun rays!

Thank you for all of your hard work!! 

It's done!!!!!!

Sort of....Jon took the first turn sliding down the new waterslide today!!  All in all, it was a good ride.  There do need to be a few adjustments made to the transitions from the slide to the run at the bottom so that younger kids will be able to safely go on it.  It's a bit rough and bumpy as it is now. 

Here's one of Jim Gamble's runs down. 

Woo hoo, it's retreat time!!

The invasion starts tomorrow night.  A whole bunch of teenagers who haven't all been together since summer will start arriving around 6:30 and be at campa all weekend.  We are going to spend that time having lots of fun and being crazy and loud. 

We'll also be talking about all of the things kids love music, music videos, movies and the Internet.  We all listen, watch and surf. So how do we do that and still honor God with our lives?  By Sunday afternoon, we hope to send them off with the tools to be in the world, but not of it.

Please pray for us.  For the counselors who will be sharing their lives and with the kids. For the message to be received and applied. For all of the campers who are coming with hurts, frustrations, doubts and much more. 

Tube two!!!

The second tube went up today! Now we're on to the last and final tube.

The first tube is up!!!!

Next up is putting up tubes 2 and 3.... The goal is for it to be done by the retreats in later on this month.

Tubes are going up!!!

Yesterday with Logan's help, Jon and Alexander tore down the old waterslide.  Jon spent the rest of the day getting the alignment right so that the slope now meets the ground part of the slide.  So the next thing to happen is tubage!!!!   I think it was supposed to happen today, but it rained all night making the ground muy soggy.  Jon is hoping that it the new slide will be ready for our retreats coming up this month. 

There has been much discussion around here about who or what is going to take the first trip down the slide.  Suggestions so far.....Logan, a watermelon, one of the Marshall cats.  I'll keep you posted and hopefully catch the inaugural slide on video for you!