Right this very second as I type these letters I sit @ Camp Manatawny....it is 10:22 PM on Sat 9/29 and the moon which was full this past Wed is waning.
There is a church here ----having a retreat...I really don't know anyone from this church (I know it's kinda odd that I don't know anyone).
My lovely wife, Margaret the beautiful one had voluntered to cook for camp a few times this fall and she asked me to be her helper, to which I forwent the Harding Leadership conference to serve here @ camp....
Hmmmmmm......Leadership Conference or serving others?
Anyway....We got here about 9:30 PM Fri nite and woke-up @ 5:30 AM to get in the kitchen and start cooking for the groups.
Folks, let me tell you.....cooking at camp is no joke.....serious labor....we started in the kitchen about 5:50 AM and got done @ 8:00 PM.
Thank goodness for Alex and Caleb two youth volunteers to clean the trays!
Cooking for 90+ people @ camp has it's trials....pots and pans are serious work....as is prepping potatoe's for breakfast and lunch...potatoe, potatoe, potatoe.....too many potatoes!
BUT HERE'S MY POINT---AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE.
I am at Camp Manatawny and it is NOT camp....it's not the same! The land is NOT what makes Camp so very, very, very special!! It's YOU who makes camp special....it is down right boring here without you!!
Yeah, yeah the weather is nice and the sky is as beautiful as any Manatawny sky I have seen before, but it is just not ever really camp unless the people are here.
I miss you okay...each and everyone of you.
I don't miss camp.....I miss what we share at camp.
What we share @ camp is a unique bond of love brought together by Jesus Christ.
HOW CAN WE SHARE THAT OUTSIDE OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS CAMP?
one word----
do ya' know it?
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