Dear Friends

Yesterday, Adam and Billie Kane, along with their four boys, left for home in Indiana.  I miss them already!

Adam has been the program director all summer.  That means that he is the one that keeps the activities running and on schedule.  At meal times he makes announcements and delivers mail.  In the evening he walks the campgrounds, listening to how bedtime devotions are going, stepping in when a cabin is too rowdy, making sure lights out happens eventually.  

When the counselors arrived for the summer he did the staff training.  Because our theme has been the Olympics all summer, we all called ourselves coaches, and that word made a difference in how we looked at what we were doing with the staff.  When he or I saw problems in things that counselors were doing, we were able to take them aside and speak some words of correction, just as a coach of a sport would do.  It seemed to make it easier for the staff to take such correction, and easier for us to give it.

Adam was also the chapel speaker for two of the junior weeks, and he is a skilled teacher.  He spoke four nights of the week and gave one of the clearest presentations of the gospel that I have ever heard.  He had so many good illustrations to get the kids involved with what he was saying.  It was very good.

Adam gave some great illustrations of the word "sacrifice."

He used this activity to get across the idea that we can't work to
cover our own sins.

Adam's wife Billie does many things in our program too.  Her specialty is baking.  She spent her weeks baking cookies, cupcakes, and some of the most delicious pies you will ever eat.  She organized devotions for the girls on staff, and did a lot of mentoring (whether she realized it or not) to the girls who had kitchen duty.  She is a sweet person, and I'm so thrilled to have her in my life.

Billie's weekly creation!

The place is not the same without them, but they plan to be back next year.  I can't wait!