Adult English Camp

Amazing how time flies between these updates. It's already been 12 days since my last one? Inconcievable!

Things have been going great here at Camp des Cimes! English Camp ended on Saturday the 16th, and Adult English Camp got underway on the 18th. English Camp ended well, and apparently one of the campers commented that "70 percent of his good attitude throughout the year is a result of the time he spends here, and it's 350 days until it starts again". It's good to hear that camp can make such an impact.

The overall dynamic of Adult English Camp is much different than the last one. We have fewer campers (around 40, instead of 58), and they're almost evenly split between Americans and French. At the last camp, there were probably 50 French campers out of the 58. Having so many more English speakers is a change, for sure. The campers are also older (obviously), and speak better English. Some things are similar though. We're doing questions asked by campers again, and these are also heavy, "big" questions, such as "What is God's will for my life?" It's been good to hear what the daily speakers have to share.

Another big change at this camp is that we're able to take the campers out on day trips. We did an afternoon of rock climbing, and a day where campers had a choice of either mountain biking, via ferrata, shopping, or climbing. I helped out with the climbing portion, and it was great to see how our guide Chris was able to make such continuous comparisons between climbing and the Christian walk.

Early last week, I had the chance to do some scouting for this camp's randonee (backpacking trip). I went on two long day hikes trying to ensure that we would have reliable water sources and good camping spots. Needless to say, for me to be able to spend my days hiking in the Alps AND helping out the camp was a lot of fun. On Sunday, we left for the rando, and we got back this afternoon. Since I already talked about randos in my last update, I won't go into too much detail on how important I think they are. I will say that this one also went well, even though we had a handful of people leave early because they were sick (convenient to be hiking near a road).

It's hard to believe that I already have less than a month left here at camp, but it's true. As we go through the last week of this camp and prepare for Family Camp in early August, I'd appreciate your prayers for the following:
- Campers. As always, please be praying for the campers here, and that they'd be positively impacted by the teaching and general atmosphere.
- Staff. It's been three solid weeks of almost continuous camp now, and staff members can get worn down pretty easily. Please pray that we'll all be able to get the rest we need to keep going strong.
- ...actually, I think the last two pretty much covers the prayer needs here, albeit quite generally. Thanks so much for reading this, and especially for the prayers!