Summer Camp, What fun

Wow, it's been a long time since i've written in my blog, now that it's on the Camp Dixie website, I'm going to have to try to be more attentive to it. So the biggest reason that i haven't written anything since last MAY, was because of summer camp. Summer camp is always a great time, and this year was no exception. We had a great senior staff, a wonderful junior staff, and some great campers. The final numbers came in, and we had about 220 campers this summer. Now, that's a bit fewer than we had at Camp Omega where I was Program Director most recently (we had around 1800 there during the summer) but it was great none-the-less. We had a lot of question marks this summer, not knowing if the aftermath of Katrina would affect our registration numbers. I'm also the third director that Camp Dixie has had in the past three years, so that could have been a stumbling block as well, we also weren't able to get the summer information out as quickly as we would have liked to. Suffice it to say, we feel blessed that every camper who came was able to come to camp this summer.
So, believe it or not, it's time for me (and hopefully some campers and parents too) to start thinking about summer camp 2007. We've gotten some camp session dates figured out and approved by the board of directors, and we even have a theme. The summer 2007 theme is going to be: "Grace Is Free." The theme verse is taken from John 1:16 "From the fullness of his grace, we all received one blessing after another." I'm really looking forward to next summer, there are quite a few things that we are going to change, improve, and hopefully we will reach even more campers with the Word of God.
I've also just finished the Summer 2006 Camp Dixie newsletter. It's in COLOR this time because a color laser printer was donated to camp! Hopefully this will get some people excited about camp. Hey it's in color! Camp Dixie must be cool!
That's about it for now, I have some email to return, some newsletters to fold and label, and I know there is some cleaning I could be doing somewhere around here. Thanks for reading everyone.
-Mac