Remember This?

Were you at Senior Teen 2009?  Remember this?

The Work Has Begun

I made a trip to camp today to visit my mom who is the director of the Junior Week and I am please to announce everyone is having a blast.  Despite a few rain showers, spirits are high and everyone was enjoying the day.

What are you looking forward to?

After reading many of your facebook posts, I know you have a lot to say about camp.  With Senior Teen 2010 only a few weeks away, what are you looking forward to?

3 Weeks Left: The excitement builds

With the official opening of camp yesterday, we have 3 weeks until Senior Teen 2010!  That’s only 20 more days!

Junior Week Starts Today

The camping season officially starts today.  Only 3 more weeks until it is our turn.

If Nothing Else, Read This Post

With camp only 23 days away, there are things you need to know.  If you read no other post on this blog, please read this post!

What we are looking forward to

Believe it or not, Senior Teen week is the highlight of our year.  The entire staff counts down the days until August.  We plan our vacations around camp.  Our weekends are spent planning and preparing for one amazing week.  We do it all because Camp Timberledge is wonderful and has affected our lives in more ways than one.  God has given us the opportunity to minister to a great group of teens and we can’t think of a better way to spend our summer.

Weather prayers

I don’t know where you are reading this from, but man is it hot here!  It is an icky, sticky, hard to breathe, don’t want to move kind of heat.  It was on a day like today that one of my greatest camp memories was created.

A few years ago the weather at camp was nasty.  It was so hot that no one really wanted to do anything. The games we played we reworked for the shade and more often than not you could find teens quitting due to the heat.  I remember one night at chapel, running around trying to figure out where else we could hold service.  The air was heavy in the camp center and with no breeze, I wasn’t sure how anyone could concentrate on a message.

All week long we prayed for rain and a breeze.  Anything that could cool us down.  Everyday we prayed and on Friday afternoon our prayers were answered.  With a clap of thunder, the sky grew dark and everyone raced to the ball field.  As the rain started to pour down, I have never seen such excitement.  Together we danced, ran around, and praised God that it was raining!  If anyone had drove into camp at that moment, they would have thought we had all gone crazy.

Every year since then, the weather has been part of our camp prayers.  As camp quickly approaches, this weather makes me nervous.  But I know I serve a big God who created the earth and controls the wind.  I also know that God wants to hear our prayers.

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Philippians 4:6 (The New Living Translation)

So as the first week of camp starts on Sunday, join me in praying for the weather.

Senior Teen 2010. Will you be there?

Camp is less than 26 days away.  If you have not gotten in your registration, now is the time!! 

Staff Bio-Eric Krause

Name: Eric Krause

Role at Senior Teen 2010: Counselor

Date of Birth: August 22, 1988

Hometown: East Greenville, PA

Favorite Ice Cream flavor: Vanilla

If you could have any animal as a pet, what would you have? A Nittany Lion

What was your first car? Red1989 Dodge Dakota Sport

What is the scariest thing you have ever done? Swimming in a swamp at the age of 12.

What is your greatest Camp Timberledge memory? TBA

What are you looking forward to the most at Senior Teen 2010? Hanging out with some teenagers.

Eric is excited but nervous about joining our Senior Teen Team since this will be his first experience with any summer camp!  We are confident that Eric will fit right in.  For the past 4 years Eric has led the youth group at Valley Church.  During this past year he has taken on the role of Sunday morning speaker.  And last week Eric officially became part of the Pastoral Team at Valley Church.  Eric is a recent graduate from Valley Forge Christian College.  While not busy with Valley Church, Eric enjoys baseball and working out.