Some highlights from a note from a summer staff member:
I just wanted to thank all of your for the awesome opportunity to serve at camp this summer.... Working at camp gave me a wonderful opportunity to grow in so many ways. I was able to make tons of Christian friends I wouldn't have had otherwise, which is something I needed and learning to witness to kids taught me how to witness to other loved ones in my life. Seeing the lives of children being transformed was such an encouragement to me and I am so thankful that I was able to be a part of that. Thank you for your help every step of the way! Keep doing what you're doing!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
December Newsletter Story: Part-time Internship
We're excited to announce that this fall camp added a new staff position: a part-time paid internship position from September to May. We wanted to expand the ministry of camp while also providing an opportunity for young adults to work in a ministry and grow in their personal and professional skills.
This position has three major parts: First, the intern will be taking various tasks from the other staff: Cleaning up after the summer, programming for year-round events, helping with hiring and recruiting and planning the summer program are just a few examples of this.
Second, the intern will have a "Big Project" that fits his or her skill set and will help camp better minister to campers, families or staff.
Third, camp is asking the intern to raise part of the funds needed for the position. While this fundraising focus does help camp, it also gives the intern a chance to learn to do personal fundraising, a skill that we know will benefit them wherever God calls them next.
Our first-ever part-time paid intern is Talissa Shaull. She served as the female site director at our Pekin camp this past summer. Her "Big Project" is setting up a mentoring program where female staff can come alongside older girl campers. She will also be taking the curriculum she is using and adapting it to fit with our summer Tyro program. The female junior high students who are a part of this program will be encountering Biblical truth through the study "Lies Young Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Dannah Gresh.
Finally, in keeping with the theme of this newsletter: This fall Talissa found out about a camper family whose kitchen stove was no longer working. Talissa contacted members of her home church for help and within weeks she was helping to deliver a working stove to the family's house. Way to go Talissa!
This position has three major parts: First, the intern will be taking various tasks from the other staff: Cleaning up after the summer, programming for year-round events, helping with hiring and recruiting and planning the summer program are just a few examples of this.
Second, the intern will have a "Big Project" that fits his or her skill set and will help camp better minister to campers, families or staff.
Third, camp is asking the intern to raise part of the funds needed for the position. While this fundraising focus does help camp, it also gives the intern a chance to learn to do personal fundraising, a skill that we know will benefit them wherever God calls them next.
Our first-ever part-time paid intern is Talissa Shaull. She served as the female site director at our Pekin camp this past summer. Her "Big Project" is setting up a mentoring program where female staff can come alongside older girl campers. She will also be taking the curriculum she is using and adapting it to fit with our summer Tyro program. The female junior high students who are a part of this program will be encountering Biblical truth through the study "Lies Young Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Dannah Gresh.
Finally, in keeping with the theme of this newsletter: This fall Talissa found out about a camper family whose kitchen stove was no longer working. Talissa contacted members of her home church for help and within weeks she was helping to deliver a working stove to the family's house. Way to go Talissa!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Meeting Physical Needs
One of our summer staff connected her church with a camper family.
This family needed a new stove and the staff member brought up the need to her congregation. Within a few weeks the church was delivering a new stove to the families house.
What a blessing!
This family needed a new stove and the staff member brought up the need to her congregation. Within a few weeks the church was delivering a new stove to the families house.
What a blessing!
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