One of my favorite parts of English camp is being in the mountains and forests of Czech in July. That's when wild blueberries are in season. This year there is a bumper crop. When we go hiking the kids (and me) come back with blue mouths. After our first camp this year with the youth group from Pardubice we went on a hike in central Bohemia. We stopped for lunch by some rock outcroppings and ended up in the middle of blueberry heaven. Camps this summer have been good so far. 
My team and I just finished our second camp and have our last in one week. I sat down with them on Friday, the last day of camp. I was the only one who wasn't sick or injured somehow. We're hitting the second camp slump I think. Camps are an exhausting ministry. If you are doing one camp you can pour yourself into it and spend the next week recovering with the knowledge that life will be normal until next year's camp. But, when you do three in a row your body really suffers. Not all camps have the best food. People usually don't sleep that much while at camp. Those of us doing camps all summer long take a beating. On the right hand side of this page are a couple of photo albums from our first two camps of the summer. In them are some stories of what makes this ministry worth the physical pain. I would love it if you would take some time and pray for Andy, Bonnie, Bethany, Julie and I. We're pretty tired, but want to finish the summer ministry well.
We've been praying for summer camps. It's hard to belive that YOU'RE the only one not injured!!! Are you getting careful in your "old age"?
Posted by: Jon & Erin Woodard | August 07, 2008 at 07:14 PM