Summer's End

The summer camping season officially ends today. It has been an amazing summer at Manidokan, one full of transition, of laughter and tears, with many challenges and praises. Summer camp gives us the unique opportunity to work with kids for an entire week with no distractions from the secular and material world in which we live. No other experience is quite the same. As a result, with the last campers leaving and the remaining summer staff packing, the most conflicting combination of emotions overwhelms me. On one hand, after 12 weeks of non-stop work, a slower pace is welcomed and needed. On the other hand, camp will soon be eerily quiet and it will be 9 long months before the energy and excitement of summer returns. I want to thank everyone who helped make this summer such a success: volunteers, staff, campers, and parents. I hope to see you at Manidokan next summer, if not before!