"Making a Diffrence"

Today we will have a staff meeting, just like we do every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. As I look around the table, I see witness to God’s calling in every staff member; people who put their lives on hold so many times to ensure that the families and campers here have the experience of a lifetime. To some people, a job is a job, but to others it is a calling. I have been told. “ If you love your work, you don’t have a job”. I am witness to what happens when God indeed calls you.

One particular story happened on the Adventure Course right after I came to work here. Larry and I had been asked to provide the teenage campers with some team building activities. As usual, once we finished the team building portion we allowed them a chance to step outside their comfort zone and try some of the high elements. “Challenge by choice,” as Larry, describes it.  On that particular day a young lady, whose body was weak from the treatment for her illness, so wanted to climb to the top of the catwalk like the other campers were doing. She attempted it several times but to no avail. She just didn’t have the strength.  Larry seeing how important it was to her, asks her to sit down and rest, he said,  “you will do this, I promise.”  She waited patiently, all the time watching camper after camper, celebrating and shouting with excitement as they made it to the top of the 20-foot high element. True to his word, Larry walked over to the young lady and said “Are you ready to do it?”  He then harnessed the young lady to him and he became her legs. He carefully climbed the rope ladder allowing this young lady the experience of a lifetime; I stood there and cried as I heard her shouting with excitement when she, indeed, made it to the top.