The End of the Summer is over

Alright Jonah Lovers,

I just said goodbye to the last of the staff for the summer of 09’. No, literally less than a minute ago. I sure am fast aren’t I? Well, anyway it has been a truly great summer and God has done amazing things. We had an incredible staff that was pushed to love Jesus and served Him a lot through a lot of work.

This was our first year with the Dream Team and it was great to see a bunch of High School ageish staff keep the program of every camp running. They did everything from games, ropes course stuff, slip and slide, and food to doing great skits. They loved Jesus and served him.

We had a great group of counselors, which I liked to call the Dutch, who were pushed all summer and a lot of them counseled every week, meeting true exhaustion at the end and realizing they could only do anything if Jesus did it through them.

We also had a QuadCore this year. They were the leadership team of the staff and kept everyone going and being mentored. I thank Jesus for them and was proud to be a part of them.

Jesus made a bunch of camps happen and I saw, on more than one occasion, things working because Jesus made them work. Jesus was glorified through our first ever 4Track camp (Steaks and Sewing!), the classic JVC (Jesus is King), Missions Camp (people who love Jesus are persecuted), and Adventure Camps (This is the Hunt!). It was an incredible summer and I was honored to be a part of it and to be worked through as God did some sweet stuff.

I would like to say goodbye to all of you now. This is my last week here at Jonah. I will be moving on to the next chapter of my life, serving Jesus and being amazed by His grace in Portland. God has taught me a lot here and I am glad to have spent the past 64 weeks here. I have seen much of God’s grace and it has been a blessing to share in it.

Never forget to love Jesus because He is the King and we are His blood-bought servants and for that we should worship.

We are Inadequate, but we got the Ghost,

Signing out,

Soka