Staff orientation is over.

So we all survived the first week at Lone Tree Ranch.  Here are some of the highlights:

 

- Learning to tie a figure eight knot (and belay people without dropping them to their death), make guacamole from scratch, and operate the mechanical bull.

 

- Waking up at 5 AM yesterday to go on a two-mile hike with the Lone Tree staff, up a nearby mountain.  (Steve said we'd be walking just down the road and across a meadow, but apparently "a meadow" is a dry riverbed with a steep incline, loose rocks, and prickly grass stuff that likes to poke through the gaps of Chaco sandals.)

 

- Cleaning out the Longbranch cabin, which involved a colony of daddy longlegs, one dead mouse, and a minor flood.

 

 

This week at Lone Tree: an Open House for the Capitan community tomorrow afternoon, followed by a week of RYLA (the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards group from western Texas).

 

Prayer requests:

- That the staff could have unity and endurance (and that we could build each other up and encourage each other).

- That everyone at Lone Tree would be safe and have a great time.

- That our Open House would attract people from the community and draw more campers for next summer. 

- That the RYLA kids would be open to hearing the "God part" of camp, and that they wouldn't leave unchanged.

 

Thanks so much.  Stay tuned for more next week!  :O)