I’ll be off to camp in a week. Jenny, Sam, and I will be at Michiana Christian Service Camp in Niles, MI for Junior High 1 next week. We leave Sunday and will be back late on Friday night.
I love camp. It’s made a difference in my life, and I’ve seen it work on so many other people also.
Here’s some totally random thoughts on camp….
Rise and Shine
Run up the flag and doing devotions
Tetherball
Baptisms in the river and in the lake
Potlicking on the lodge side
Late night pranks
Raiding the fridge
Round Lake
Ralph
Marla
Jeff Curtis and I hammering Coop on the basketball court when he was about 17. It shut him up for at least a week. 
Building the campfire on the lodge side
Jim and Brian Borton
Kevin Odor
Mike Tuttle
Mahoning Valley Christian Service Camp
The Hollar boys
14,000+ feet in Colorado (which time?)
Pat Hartson, the ultimate Mean Dean
Hitting the peak with my dad (HEY DUCK!), and having the photos to prove it (Thanks Richard)
Backpacking through the tail end of a hurricane in New Hampshire
40+ miles on the AT while carrying most of Mom’s gear
Capture the Flag
Mark Hamilton turning green in Leadville – and I mean that literally
Day hikes at Wilderness camp, with Penultimate Mean Dean – Jeremy “Red” Westbrook
Preaching vespers under the cliff
Bryan and Kate and Amanda and Tab and Dale and Darren (RIP) and Matt and Cade and Hillary and Maia and Jeremiah and Ed and Curtis and Angie and Jaime and Amy and Tab and Mark and Brian and Coop and Rob and ……………………………………………
Randy hitting on the faculty member (somebody with last name of Ferguson) who was about twice his age and married to a guy about 3 times his size lolololol
Leading worship with Micah Carrick when everything just went right
22 inch bass
Waking mom up at 5:30 AM to ask if she had some rope for our anchor (one of the biggest mistakes of my life)
I could go on forever, but I’ve got to get some more work done today. We’re on vacation the week after camp, so I’ll be on hiatus for a couple of weeks at least….
