Saturday Night Fever

I know Lisa put a comment or two about the Saturday cookout in her recent post; but I just had to add my two cents worth to go along with it. I thought the evening was absolutely fantastic! Not only was the food great (thanks to Bob, Tommy, Mary Beth, Linda, Gail, and many others), but the whole atmosphere was simply electric (even without the lightning!). We had so many folks crammed into the dining hall at Camp Hope that the air conditioning couldn't keep up. Heather, Gail, Eva, and Lucy did a wonderful job with the signs, flowers, and decorations. There were old friends and new friends. There were testimonies to what the Lord has done with Camp Hope since its inception a year ago from "the Three Amigos," Larry Vaalburg (and Virginia, his wife), Gorton Marsden, and Bob Mifflin (who took Paul Palmer's place as the third amigo so that Paul could devote more time to overseas missions work), and from Jim Bland, the Coordinator for the PCA's Mission to North America (MNA). And we closed it all out by singing "Amazing Grace" together! What a night!