Well, after a year's thinking, praying, and planning - especially on Diane's part, the campers have arrived at our new site for this year - no more Maugenhard, now we're at a dorm in Wittlingen. We'll just call it Witt and, if you want to sound "Cherman" you'd pronounce it "Vitt". Thirty-one kids have arrived and settled in. Well over a third are new to English Camp this year and then we've got some one to three year veterans. The same ratio applies to our staff - and, as usual, God seems to .

After the afternoon and evening together the spirit seems relatively positive. The evening walk following our evening meeting was spectacular - half moon bright in the sky as we walked the farm roads at dusk between fields of just harvested grains and yet to be harvested tall cornstalks. I'm not doing th Bible speaking this year - one of our new staff wanted to give it a go and convinced me he had the passion for it so we're giving him a go. One of my counselors is a former student of mine from BFA that I had back in 2001-2002 as a freshman, one is a recent BFA grad, and another staff is a student I had in Narragansett just a few years ago. We've got two young translators - not much older than the campers - and they're great.

Diane has worked so hard all this past year to see these camps come to fruition - very neat to se the kids stream in. Some are glad to be here because they've been here before and remember what a good time it was for them on many levels. Some are new and nervous. Some are new and thrilled with the opportunities that await.

Pray for us as we face our first full day together. Pray that our theme of "One Way - Jesus" based on John 14:6 would become absolutely real to each and every camper.