Whirlwinds

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Well, It has been a whirlwind of activity since the last blog update. Home in the States living in Mom’s basement (the American Dream) and attending to all sorts of issues, needs, urgencies and the one huge pleasure of seeing Amanda married to Brad. Five churches in four weeks, clearing out the house for future rental (pray for that situation) caring for grandson Cameron, getting Hannah’s driver’s license taken care of, visiting friends and supporters, stocking up on supplies for the year (shopping ahead on Carl’s jeans as he grows exponentially, cheap ibuprofen, etc.), and more. We were busy and exhausted.


That hasn’t changed since returning. Each day until now has been full of either moving from one home to another or setting up and launching this year’s English Camps. Diane and I are training, shopping (enormous amounts of food are consumed by 150 campers and staff in a few short days) and “troubleshooting” for the first session of camp. It’s been exciting to see first the staffs arrive and begin to gel as teams and now working camper pickups we’re seeing the same thing happen with them. We’ll be directing at the second season of camp in a facility new to us – its structure is reminiscent of a maze. Our staff will be a mix of veterans and newbies and it will be great to see how God works out this team’s efforts.

When it’s all said and done it will be time for school to start again for staff at BFA although we might be able to sneak in a few day’s rest (plus the wedding of a former BFA student to be held in France) – I hope so. We’re also looking forward to welcoming our friends the Shumans to the staff here at BFA – they’ll be living just four doors down in our row house building.