Planning

As everything around camp begins to speed up, we are planning out various work days and schedule deadlines for different tasks that need to be accomplished before summer arrives. In my previous posts, I have discussed the hiring of summer staff and the creation of a staff manual. Well I am happy to say that our staff is fully hired and the manual is complete. YEAH! Now it is time to schedule all of the training that those staff members will do once they arrive on the 24th of May. It is difficult to schedule this training time because not only do we want to train them around the camp and promote good teamwork, we also want to make sure that all of the work projects are done before camp starts. So it is hard to schedule training because we might have a lot of work projects still left to accomplish when they arrive and that could takeaway from our team building and training time.

I must say that I did have a very scary moment this past Friday when we were filming one of the camp rules videos. One of the camp themes is focused on Ninjas so I was "fighting" with another staff member in the background of the video and once we began to film the actual take after rehearsing is when I injured myself. There was one section where I am being "tossed" out of the screen but when I landed on the ground I hit my head on the one part of the field where there is NO grass. But instead of just stopping all of the video shooting because my head was in so much pain, I continued the fighting action and finished the video. Afterwards, all I could think about was Liam Neeson's wife who hit her head skiing but felt fine after the fall but two days later she died at the hospital. As of now, everything is okay with my head and I am grateful that I am not severely injured, but I am glad that I was able to learn a lot about sacrifice which is extremely important in this ministry. I hope to look back on that experience during this summer and just laugh because of how funny the video is.