Day 2 of Work Weekend started out with a hearty breakfast -- the cooks have been excellent and spoil us with delicious food at every meal! I spent the morning organizing the music materials and writing up song sheets to replace the battered ones. Out at camp, we like to hold up posterboards with the lyrics to the worship songs on them, and now we have 52 song sheets all ready to go for the camp season. It was raining for most of the morning, so a lot of indoor tasks were accomplished while we waited for the rain to pass.
After lunch (which included the cook's to-die-for sweet potato pie - yyyuuummm) some headed outside and a few others headed into the kitchen to finish wiping down everything that hadn't been touched for 6 months. The pathway, which was all set and hardened, was edged with dirt so that grass can grow back around where it was dug out. Some of the dirt also went to leveling out where water typically collects so that it stays away from the building. I helped with raking up pine needles around all the cabins so that the siding doesn't get moldy and so that the campers aren't infested with woodticks and mosquitos. While raking, I found a new camp mascot -- a baby toad burrowed next to one of the girls' cabins. To any directors reading this: I'd like to request to be in the cabin with the toad by it so I can watch over my new little pet -- maybe I can feed it any bugs squished in the cabin (: Any name recommendations for the toad would also be gladly taken into consideration, hehe.
Overall, there was a ton of great things accomplished this weekend. Here's a list of the main things we did this weekend (I might be missing a few, so sorry if I forgot anyone's projects):
- A beautiful concrete path from the main building to the gazebo
- A fence put up along the retaining wall and building corner
- Signs to direct cars to camp
- Mulch ordered for the playground
- New batteries put in the smoke detectors
- Fan put in the mop closet
- Dryer vent cleaned out
- Pine needles and dirt rake away from sidings of the cabins
- Cleaned the writing off the green girls' cabin
- Worship songs cataloged
- Game closet and craft room organized
- Kitchen pantry wiped down and organized, expired food thrown out
- Kitchen deep cleaned
- Nurse's office restocked and organized
I feel so blessed to have been a part of this weekend. Even after going to camp for so many years, I never realized how much work is done beforehand and behind the scenes to make camp run smoothly. The people who were out here with me worked so incredibly hard and got so much accomplished. They did it all with such a joyful attitude and offered up their time, skills, and knowledge to make this camp a better and safer place for all the campers. I definitely would like to come back to help out in the years to come; it made me feel so great to be giving back to camp this weekend through time and effort. Thank you so much for the hard work that all of you gave this weekend; it will be greatly appreciated throughout the summer!
I'd like to end with Romans 12:1 -- "And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plea with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice -- the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him." (NLT) To summarize the message the director gave us Sunday at church, each of us has our own particular "sacrifice" we can give to worship God. This means our time, the talents and skills we have acquired and developed, and our willingness to serve, just to name a few things. The actions we take and the story our lives tell are a witness to others of how we devote ourselves to God and the calling He has given us. After working this weekend, I feel more convicted to try and use the skill sets and gifts God has given me to serve others and act in a way obedient to His will for my life. This is something I'll be including in my prayers -- for clarity in the direction my life should take; for an understanding of how God wants to use me and my talents; and for the joyful, hardworking attitude of a servant I saw displayed in everyone I worked with this weekend.
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