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!

Phase 3

It's very, very cool! And very, very tall.  Ben calls it suicide tower. I think I will actually be a bit nervous to go down it.  Thanks to Mr. Craig Chaney and the group from Shoreline Church in Seattle, the new tower is up and looking great.

Here's the view from the top of suicide tower during the middle of Hurricane Irene.

Also some swordfighting viewed from the top.

Jon has been working to put up some trusses whatever they are.  Oh, he just informed me that they are what give strength to the slide and stability to the tube.  Check back for more pictures soon.



Aflote

I know, I know.....I left you all hanging this summer.  I faithfully posted a couple of days in a row about camp, loaded photos for all to see, and then nothing.  In my defense, we did have 91 campers our second week of camp.  That's a lot of campers.  After our camps were over, we had a month of nonstop work crews.  There were people here this summer from Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Pennyslvania, Ohio, Washington State and New York. I will be posting pictures for you all to see soon! In the meantime, you can enjoy this video that the New York group made for their church.  Thanks for all of your prayers this summer.  It was a great one!



I feel like a kid again!

....said by a 10 year old boy swinging on the swings.

More fun is being had by all!!!