Back to Work

Take a look at this website:   http://www.campgalileemo.org and use the arrow marked  “Come On In”.  This will show you where we are for the next 3 weeks.  Four couples showed up here on Saturday, plus another couple on Sunday, to work together at this church camp.  None of us knew any of the others.  Sunday evening we had a dinner together and learned something about what we will be doing.

Like a lot of places these days, funding is tight so some costs are being cut out altogether  (like the stables) and new ways of fundraising are being tried.  A large local family held a reunion at this facility on Saturday night, complete with their own bluegrass group.  This coming weekend there will be a motocross competition through the woods and ravines here.  Bob rode part of one trail on his mountain bike and knows how rough this might be.  Later this month it will quiet down with a wedding reception or two.  It is a large enough place that we have the 5 RVs parked together, out of the way of everything else.

Last year they held the first annual “Lights Of Galilee”, where all of the cabins had been decorated for Christmas, while local groups participated in a variety of ways:

-   FFA club staged a live nativity

-   School choirs sang carols
-   Social groups sold hot chocolate

and so on.

This year they plan to do it all over again, but with more permanent fixtures.  The 10 of us will be doing the decorating, complete with new switched outlets (to get rid of extension cords) and lighting that will be mounted where it is better protected from the weather.  Today, Monday, was our first day of “work” since the cabin activities around Labor Day.  We are both tired this evening, but ready to go back for more tomorrow.  Once we complete the wiring on over 20 outbuildings, there is painting to be done. There is plenty of work to do, so we will fill these 3 weeks.

We are only 65 miles from Joplin Mo, which was hit so hard by an F5 tornado last spring.  One of the couples in our group is scheduled to work there this weekend (our time off) when Extreme MakeOver is organizing a project to redo 7 homes with thousands of people on hand to participate.

The weather has been very nice (80’s yesterday) but this afternoon it got windy and cooler.  Tonight it’s thundering and rainy.  We’re nice and cozy in the motorhome, however!