Camp and Campers

So we're coming to the end of the year here at Camp Barakel.  The maintenance department has been punching out projects left and right.  This week alone we've worked on grouting the stone in Crosscut, rebuilding the Boeve's garage door, chainsaw maintenance, and some updates to one of the boxes we store wood in.  The work is good, but it sure has been cold outside.

Speaking of the cold, it's been bitterly cold up here the last couple days.  This morning on the way to church the car said it was 24 degrees outside.  On top of the cold we've gotten a little bit of snow that translated into a sheet of ice on the roads around here.  That led to one of the camp men sliding his camp truck into a tree.  Another guy, Dave Douglas, organized a fun run from Fairview into camp.  We had 4 people from camp run about 6 miles in the chilly weather for what was an average time of an hour.  On top of that we had one other adventure.  Titus Brown has wanted to get into the icy water for some time so he decided the first day of real snow on the first day of December would be a good opportunity to get in the water.

I'll be saying goodbye to camp on Tuesday for about a month.  I'm really looking forward to seeing some campers at camp when I return in January.  Walking through the West Side Dining Hall has been where I've really been missing the campers.  It's a reminder that all the work we've been doing since November is all an effort to prepare for spreading the Gospel to our campers.  So the work continues here, even as the snow starts falling and the temperature takes a bitter turn.

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