Thursday, April 20, 2006

Impressions of Easter Camp from a cook's perspective

Loud - groove tent base is unreal
Buzzing - always something happening
Overwhelming - when you see this horde of kids lined up waiting to be fed and still they kept coming
Daunting - when you see the quantity of food needing to be cooked so that 2,800 kids can be fed
Inspiring - when you see how much time and effort and every ounce of energy and more that people give to make this camp happen
Humbling - to know that you have been part of a team of people making the camp happen so that kids lives are changed permanently, and that for many they will look back on this camp as one of the defining moments in their life.
Amazing - to see such a huge crowd so well behaved and with so few crowd problems
Exhausting - are my feet ever going to stop aching?
Incredulous - to be told thatwe managed to get 2,800 kids through the food lines in 17 minutes

We have cooked for Easter Camp for 11 years now and I still count it a privilege to be able to be part of this ministry.

2 comments:

Warwick Tomlinson said...

Every year that i do eastercamp i too am humbled that so much good can come from me giving time to help at such a monumental occasion as this.

ElizabethB said...

YOur area of ministry blows me away every time I hear about it. Well done good and faithful ministers!