The campers are here! The cars came rolling in starting around 3:30 Sunday afternoon. Our staff and friends saddled up to greet the families and entertain them while waiting for the gates to open wide and the wild rumpus begin! Week 1 is for teenagers and very young adults. It was great fun to see…
Rancher Camp
Tuesday and today the Ranchers have been training the incoming counseling staff for Ranch Camp. They do this by being “Campers” for two days, and they take their job very seriously. We do, too, even paying them their regular wage to do it. Everything happens that will happen at regular camp in order to give the…
Aldersgate
Jerry and I drove up to Brownwood last week to visit Aldersgate Enrichment Center. I’d been there many years ago, having discovered it driving back and forth to Abilene, where I grew up. The Methodist Men of Central Texas, inspired by a visit to the Baddour Center in Senatobia, MS, originally began Aldersgate as a…
If I Needed You
Whew. Yesterday was Jerry’s birthday, the end of a long month of family birthdays. Out of 16 members of our immediate family (Jerry and I, our four daughters, three sons-in-law, six grandkids, and one grandson-in-law) nine of us are blessed with birthdays in the merry month of May. (Actually, I suspect the really merry month…