J-Bo's trip to the Office

This week was a little different for Jeremy Britton, as he was called on to help do some work in the camp office. While he was there he snapped a few shots of the big wigs who work for us in Charlotte. This is Scott Woods whom we have already introduced you to. Jeremy Britton came down to help Scott get some big bulk mailings packaged up for the upcoming golf tournament which raises funds for our New Venture week of camp. Unfortunately Big Nate spent a few days alone working here at camp with Bill Mohle, which surely was an adventure.

This is Jeremy White, our new leader who has taken over the role of Camp Director as Jerry Martin moves into a position of Executive Director. He is the other Jeremy here at camp, while Jeremy Britton is affectionately known as J-Bo and is the "Intern". Jeremy is an awesome disciple and really loves all aspects of the outdoors... we really couldn't have a better Camp Director. He has two little boys, a 2 year old named Keller, and a newborn named Coleman. His wife Lindsay is also a really sweet woman who is excited to be involved with the ministry here at Lurecrest even though she's got two new kids to take care of. We hope to have more pictures of Jeremy White on the blog, and hope to help you get to know him because he's really awesome. On top of just being an amazing man he also has an insane appetite and never seems to need rest so here he is doing what he does best... multitasking while eating.

Lurecrest Ladies

This last weekend here at Lurecrest we were visited by some incredible women who have devoted many years to the ministry of the Gospel for us. From left to right.

Theresa Monroe...
currently in charge of summer staff hiring, who for the last few years was the lakefront director. She has grown up here at camp, was a former "Miss Lurecrest" and has been blessed to see her three daughters grow up spending the majority of their summers hearing the good news of Christ here.

Beverly Forsyth...
has been long time friends with Theresa and worked here on staff when she was younger as well as recently by facilitating the craft shop, her "studio", for the past few years. Her husband Bill has been best friends with Theresa's husband Mike since they were in grade school and today live less than a block away from eachother. She has also been very fortunate to bring her
children up to camp summer after summer.

Angela Conklin...
has three children who have all grown up coming to camp and worked on staff as well. She has worked in the office here at camp during the summer as the secretary on and off for the last few years and was a camper here herself.

Robin Carter...
the youngest of the four she has been a constant blessing here at camp as she supplies the Infirmary every summer and works for a few weeks as the camp nurse. She used to live in Charlotte and get to spend more time with us but moved to Tennessee a few years ago so we don't get to see her too often during the year but she has been steadfast in her work through the summers, her two sons also have grown up at camp and worked on staff.

These four ladies have been such a blessing to so many staff and campers throughout the years that we had to get a picture of them and share our love for them. They are all so beautiful and kind, but their hearts are the most gorgeous things about them, for these four women truly have been seized by the power of a great affection. We love getting to see them and cannot wait until they are around more this summer, which they predictably will be.

The Tent is UP!!!!!!!

This is what the top of the campground has looked like for the last few months, but today we were bent on making it a little more inviting. So, we put up the tent!

Here's Tom helping us, he has been one of the people who has set up the tent in years past and seemed happy to help us again this year since it's too large of a task for just us two maintenance guys to handle. Unfortunately Tom can get a bit bossy as you can see here with him barking out orders at Big Nate. One of the more painstaking parts of putting the tent together is sewing the seems between the four pieces, but with Tom there directing us we managed to do it correctly.

Here's Jeremy sewing up the tent, pulling a Michael Jordan with his tongue hanging out.

This is the ESBS teacher Byron Hartzler, he was kind enough to take all these pictures of us and help us put up this beast of a shelter. He hails from Canada and is the husband of the ESBS director Eileen. He wanted us to make sure we got a picture of him on the blog because it's so cool and since he was kind enough to help us we were happy to oblige. He's currently working on a blog for the ESBS that's we'll try to get a link to so that you can see all of the awesome stuff that's going on with the school, we'll try to give him some more love soon.

The trickiest part was getting the first center post up and then after that it's just a matter of getting the outlying posts up and fastening them down with tie-downs. This year we needed to replace most of the ropes and tie-downs around the perimeter so we bought all red tie-downs. Yep, our tent's straps actually color coordinate now, just one of the ways we're trying to make camp look and feel better.

And this the finished product, the Big Top as it is affectionately called by some, up and ready for action in the beginning of the spring time. The drive up to camp feels so much more welcoming now.