Kind of a cool start to August 8th

One of the 30+ shirts that have been made for Servant Camp.  As Terry and I drive out to camp today we will be visiting the 42nd edition of camp.  Over the years it has varied a LOT.  It started out as a backyard camp with a handful of kids.  In numbers it peaked at 400+ in the mid 90s.  On its way up in years it had struggles.  One year the leader of our community in the Twin Cities put out a memo, unknown to me, that if we did not get more campers in the next couple of weeks there would be no camp!  We did top out that year with 200+ campers which is the number I figured I needed to run the kind of camp I felt God wanted us to have.  After camp I received a bottle of Baileys as a way of saying "sorry, I should not have done that."  "That" being the memo that we may cancel camp.  I need not get into the many things we did at our meetings to drum up interest in camp but some are worth listing.  One time we brought a canoe and paraded it into the meeting.  One time, as I was giving an announcement I took off my pants!  I heard some gasps but I did have walking shorts under my pants!  I think camp, today, has leveled out to maybe a bit under or over 300 which I am sure is a good number.  About 9 years ago South Bend started sending their youth here and that certainly helped the number of campers as well as the available staff.  As Terry and I walk around camp, go into the dining room and director's cabin as well as the staff cabin I am sure I will see MANY staff who gave so much of their time when I directed camp and continue to do so today.  

After we visit camp Terry and I will head to St. Louis Park where the quilt from China is now DONE.    From 2013 to 2019 it is about time.  Terry brought the binding over yesterday and they called later in the day to say it was ready.  It will be fun to see it and then put it on the bed.  It will replace the camp shirt quilt that is on the bed now but I am not sure where that goes.  "For sure" it can not go into retirement.

No, I am about finished with my FP and then it is time to water the garden and get ready for the drive to Cannon Falls where camp is.