Why to Come to Camp Without Your Friends

At this point summer has gone by more quickly than I would have ever imagined.  Once we get started with summer camp there is little time for many of the tasks I should attend to as part of my position.  Most days are spent driving up to camp, driving the bus, helping fix things and taking care of the items that require they be addressed. Several years back we had a g...

This past Sunday at my church the gospel reading was Mathew 14 and the story of Peter’s faith not being strong enough to complete his walk to Jesus on the water.  How many of us have faith so deep and so strong that we feel our faith would provide us with the strength needed to complete the journey?  I was on Lake Michigan a few weeks ago fishing with my brother and...

Recently I asked Tom, our Executive Director, why we no longer distribute a monthly camp newsletter. He couldn’t remember when or why we stopped sending it. I dug up a folder full of my old “Minute with Ben” newsletter segments and found that my most recent contribution came in August 2017. So yeah, it’s been a bit. After five and a half years, it’s fair to ask, “Wh...