San Francisco

Oregon Coast

The drive along the OR Coast was beautiful.  We would have taken more pictures if Luke had not been sleeping the whole time.  Poor guy has been sick, but seems to be starting to feel better.

Oregon Coast

Today we spend the day in Newport OR.  We went to the aquarium, and walked down by the beach.  It is pretty down here, but cold and foggy, which I guess is the norm.  Tomorrow we will drive down the coast some more and see the Redwoods.

Sad to leave

These last three weeks have been such a blessing.  It has been so fun to be here at camp and let our kids play with other staff families, not have to cook or clean, and watch high schoolers lives changed forever.  I am already looking forward to the next time that we get to do this.  To be apart of this.  This week there have been over 700 high school students here and so many of them are hearing the Gospel for the very first time.  It is neat to watch the students let their walls down and let Christ in as the week goes on.  There are so many wonderful stories about this property and what God had done here.  There is a book written about the property titled A Land of Sheltered Promise.  If you ever get the chance read it, it is a great story of what man meant for evil, God used for good.

Here at Washington Family Ranch they have a rock pile of all the students who give their lives to Christ here at Camp.  When they go on the new believer walk each of them places a rock in the pile.  The camp has been up and running for 10 years and there are over 10,000 rocks in that pile.  Amazing.

Ryan has been working so hard since we have been here and had very little sleep, so we are looking forward to our time together as a family next week to camp down the OR and CA coast.  We will leave tomorrow just after the campers.  It will be bitter sweet.

Western night number two

The River

Today we went to the John Day River on YL's property.  We had a lot of fun.  Both Susie and Luke loved swimming in the river.  

Little Buck Norris

There is a program character here named Buck Norris and last night Susie and Luke got to be apart of his last skit.  Luke was the last kid to go out on stage and the crowd went wild.  He was kinda in shock.

High Dive

Susie has conquered the high dive.  it took her about 15 up there to convince herself to jump and encouragement for about 30 high schoolers cheering her on.  Now thats all she wants to do at the pool.

Some pictures of our trip so far

Susie and her friends

All 640 campers

Kids in their bunks in the trailer

Washington Family Ranch

We are here at WFR in Oregon.  It is absolutely huge!  We have a little apartment at the corner of the boys hotel since Ryan is one of the male head leaders.  It's kinda like being and RD at a college.  There are a ton of kids here Susie and Luke's age from our assignment team.  They have had a ton of fun playing with everyone.  Campers arrive today around 3:00 pm.  There will be 640 campers including a group from YL Barcelona, and a Capernum group.