The foundation walls are up and waterproofed. Pictures to come.

The cement guys came and poured the footing for the staff housing project! So exciting.

Eagle Lake Staff housing officially starts!

A week ago we broke ground on our new staff housing project. Pictured is our dig. Look carefully and you can see that we dug trenches for 268 feet of footings and the pad backs up into a hillside allowing us to have a walk out basement and two floors above ground level. This building will house between 25 and 30 staff members throughout the summer and will be a breath of fresh air compared to the 35 year old trailers we have been using.

Please pray that God will bless this job with safety and efficiency. Pray that God will give me wisdom on how to best serve Eagle Lake while managing this job. We have already saved 10k on materials to date by harvesting our own lumber and by finding favor with suppliers. Praise God!

2010 Summer Camp over

Sad day....all of our summer staff is gone. We had a great banquet last night. Rudy's bbq and sweet tea! Mmmm Mmmm. During the time when Mark, our Camp Director, was saying thank you to all of the full time staff for their job here a Eagle Lake, when it came to Dan's turn all of the summer staff stood up and gave Dan a standing O! What a sight it was. To see that what Dan does is noticed even though he is not "up front." We are truly where God wants us...it feels so nice.

We will miss all of the counselors that we made connections with. I would name them...but I would forget so many.

Please lift them up in prayer with us as they all go back to their lives around the country.

Shock week!

Ok, so I know that I haven't written in a long time...but we have been SO busy. Along with all of the visitors/family that we have had here we have been super busy with ministry life here at camp.

Well...this is week 10. We call this week Shock week because it is our high school week. All of the programing that has been done so far this week goes out the door and we have all new programing and rules. For example: breakfast is served in bed and bedtime is midnight. Hence catering to high schoolers.
We have had such an awesome summer...our best by far.

Some of our last five week highlights:

• Jen H. and I threw three showers. Rosa (baby), Katlyn (bridal), and Miranda (bridal)
  
• Our nieces Janey Haataja and Maddy Maki joined session 2 crew (five weeks working in the kitchen)
• Our nephew Peter Soderstrom flew out to work with Dan and Max.
• Eric, Brenda, Jim, Katie, and Susie Soderstrom (Beth's brother and family) flew out for a weekend and Jim and Pete stayed for week 8 Rez camp
• Ken and Emily Haataja came to visit Janey and drop of Daniel our nephew for week 9 Rez camp
• Eric Maki and Griffin (our nephew) drove out to drop Griffin off for week 9 Rez camp
• Our small group from Rocky Mountain Calvary came up for a Saturday afternoon
• one of Beth's girls in her bible study got asked to come back as a PC for the next two years....very exciting!
• Laurie (a girl in Beth's bible study left early...had to say goodbye to a good friend.
• meeting weekly with Derek and Miranda, the couple that we walked through marriage counseling

Here are some random pics of our last five weeks of highlights.

Beth, Rosa, and Jen at Rosa's shower
Niece Maddy working in the kitchenEric and the family

Nephew Pete and niece Janey

Friends came to visit

Our friends Ben and Jade came to visit.  It was their first visit to Eagle Lake Camp.  We had a great time catching up, grilling, hiking and eating ice cream.  We hope you come back soon!!

 

Maggie, Emma, Tozer and Jade

People we want you to meet.

Dan found out this spring that Max Clark, a past counselor, was coming to work with him this summer.  Dan has been so excited for Max to be with us.  Max is a great worker and is eager to learn from Dan.  Besides cracking each other up these past few weeks...they have gotten a lot done.  This is Dan and Max...Max is showing off his knife that "is bigger than Dan's."

Next is Alicia Franks.  Alicia was in my bible study last year and was asked to come back the next two years to be a PC (program coordinator).  Basically...her and Miranda the other girl PC are over the girl counselors.  It is a HUGE honor to be asked to be a PC and Alicia is very good at her job here.  This is Alicia.

Finally five of my six bible study girls.  I have been so blessed to have these girls in my care for the summer.  This past week we studied Caleb and I was so moved at how deep these girls went with this study.  They taught me a lot.  Please pray for us as we study God's word and grow closer as a group.  The only one missing is Abbey.  I will get her picture us soon.  In the first picture from left to right....Laurie, Becki, Jessica and Micha (day camp counselor).  The second picture is Rachel (horse camp counselor).