Working from Home

As I walked across the Camp Pearl lawn, I couldn’t help feeling like I had come home.  The past three summers at Camp Pearl had been good ones.  Good and Difficult.  Camp is the hardest thing I purposefully do in life, but the profound rewards make every task and challenge well worth the effort.  Those memories — the fellowship, the obstacles, the victories, the defeats — anchor me to this place.  I’m as much at home here as anywhere else in the world.  Christ is at work here at Camp Pearl.  This is his mission field, as much as if it were West Africa or Central Asia, and I wouldn’t give up the next six weeks here for anything.

This summer, we will have campers ranging from high school through 3rd grade.  Each age group has its challenges and it’s opportunities.  Please pray that the Lord will use all of us here at Camp Pearl as he works in the lives of these young people.  Please pray that we will remember that it is his work and depend on him for strength and wisdom.  Sometimes, working from home, it can be easy to forget.