Fair Haven Camps Trip Successful

My time in Maine where my wife, Wendy-Jo, is the Program Director at http://www.fairhavencamps.org/ was immensely enjoyable and seemingly successful. On June 15th, a group of 29 people from our church (Crossroads in McKean, PA) and from Christ EFC in Saegertown took off on a week-long mini-missions trip to help prepare the camp for its summer season. In addition to our group a group of 48 from Eastern PA joined us in our efforts of painting, building, refurbishing, trimming brush from the High-ropes course, cutting fire-wood and more. After the groups were gone, the summer staff arrived and I remained in Maine to read and study AND to do spiritual life training/leadership development with the counseling staff. Finally, it was time for the first wave of campers to arrive. It is just awesome to watch my wife at work in this arena. It is her dream-job, and while it is incredibly exhausting work running a camp with about 50 staff and 750 to 1000 kids, it is also incredibly rewarding. Pray for Wendy and the staff and the Camp this summer that God would do great things. I have returned home to PA to batch-it for a few weeks. I had some great meetings yesterday with Jim Bzdafka and Jim Hagen from Providence Church in Avon, OH, and then with Randy Spurlock from Orchard Church in Olmstead Falls, OH, then with Jason Oesterling of iKon Church in Medina. Over the next few days I will be preparing for our District Church-Planting Retreat which is next week. I also plan to help out at Crossroads Church this Saturday as the finishing touches go on the new playground in preparation for a large outreach event on Sunday.