GRACE ABOUNDS

i have never been someone who picks out a word for the year. didn't pray about a word being revealed to me, announce it, or really even...

Cape Girardeau, MO this event was somehow the perfect mix of newness && familiarity. since i had worked an event in Jackson, MO, i saw...

Lorton, VA this was not my first time in VA and it was not their first rodeo either. yet this was an event that felt slightly daunting to...

Nappanee, IN this was a homecoming i have been waiting for. a community that i so deeply fell in love with a year ago. a group of people...

Barrington, NH 34. that's how many states i have been to now. 9 of those have been with this job. that is crazy && cool to think about....

Idaho Falls, ID my first time in Idaho. a state i didn't know much about other than potatoes. i didn't realize how close we were to the...

Little Rock, AR for a first time event, this was amazing. they had so much excitement && interest for their event, that the day before we...

Austin, TX now this was an event unlike any other that i have worked. we drove down to austin, laughing, && stopping at Buc-ee's on the...

St. Louis, MO the most quotable trip i have been on to date. but i'll come back to that. i didn't know everyone on my team, but that was...

Wichita, KS my first trip post-camp & man was it a wake-up call. it was familiar && easy in the sense that i knew what i was doing. it...

(from April 29, 2020) *written for Wesley House blog* A couple of months ago, I was just watching tv when I saw it. The trailer. I saw KJ...

8/9-8/15 camp coming to a close is not a feeling that gets better, but it is one you get used to after 4 summers. this summer is...

8/2-8/8 the last full week of campers, and there were only 30 of them. an entire camp and dining hall for 30 15-year-old campers, their...

7/26-8/1 to be honest, i really don't know what to write about this session. it kind of feels like a blur. more and more people are...

7/18-7/25 man this week. to start the week with being inside of a truck when a fire extinguisher goes off and you cannot escape fast...

7/11-7/17 girls week. what a beautiful thing to come back home to. a week of baking and going to the farmers market. of movie nights and...

7/2-7/10 an entire week off. still truly a concept that i struggle with. i have always dealt with FOMO, but camp FOMO is worse. and i...

6/28-7/3 not gonna lie, this session was hard. i walked into it not knowing any of the campers bc this was my session off last summer. i...

6/21-6/27 this week started off with our bus getting in 3 hours late and giving them little caesar's for lunch. but there were some...

6/14-6/20 some of the last things the campers said to me before they left: "we ate like queens this week because of you" *on bus saying...