A new favorite summer pastime...

At the beginning of the summer we were driving home from Target and saw these hot air balloons that looked like they might crash into a housing development. Naturally, Rory and I chased them just to be sure they landed safely (or just to see what might happen...)

We watched these balloons dance on the ground as they landed and as we took pictures we made friends with the pilot of the colorful balloon pictured. He gave us his card with a website of where and when this particular balloon club meets. So this summer, we have enjoyed a few glorious evenings watching these magnificent balloons take off and land again. Come and join us! http://www.nebraskaballoonclub.org/
Watching a hot air balloon event was on my Life List, so it just doesn't get any better than this. It is free, it is beautiful and it is a great way to take in a summer evening.

Honest prayer.

I just got an email from my sister telling me that last night Mara prayed, "thank you God that I am funny."

Love to Serve

Yesterday concluded our 10 day intensive staff training. We have a phenomenal staff this summer...65 men and women who are ready to love and serve our campers all summer long.

Check out the pictures:
http://208.113.191.76/component/option,com_expose/Itemid,455/
Click on Summer Ministry Team and then Staff Training for just a taste of our time together.

I am proud of our staff and am so excited to see how God uses them all summer long.

Staff Training

I work at a Bible camp as an assistant program director. Last week we had 70 summer staff arrive and for the last 11 days we have been in intensive staff training. I love this work...to watch these young people speak with so much enthusiasm about their faith is really, really fulfilling. It just feels good to hear the good news proclaimed through passionate believers.

We're growing like a family, with some rough spots and spats along the way, but I think that just keeps it real. We are humans doing this good work, after all.

My favorite line of the whole week was yesterday when I had just announced that we were going to spend the next two hours napping because everyone looked so overly tired and passy-outy as they laid down on the floor during every 15 minute break we gave. So I insisted that everyone go and get in their sleeping bags and sleep until dinner.

My two sweet staff from Korea came up to me and quietly asked with confusion on their faces, "excuse me, Becca. But what does...how did you say...passy-outy mean?"

I had to explain Beccaisms and how I often change phrases into adjectives and really just not to listen to my english as they continue to learn their own english.

I'm off now for the rest of the night and I am feeling pretty passy-outy myself. Good night!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to my MOM! You have three children who love and adore you for your love for children (for us and many, many others) your love for people (for us and many, many others) and your time and love that you generously give away (to us, and to many, many others). Today we celebrate YOU!

When we were home in Minnesota over Easter, I spent a morning at Macy's flower show with my mom, my grandma and my mother-in-law and I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. To have these three strong, faithful and kind women together for a day of girl time was such a blessing to me. We ate in the skyroom and told stories and laughed and Grandma commented on how fortunate I am to be a part of two families who love and serve the Lord. Because that is how God intended families to love and to live.