An Important Week

John Vandervelde - Program Director

This is a very important week in the HoneyRock calendar.  It is the week before Wheaton College's Christmas break--the week when the majority of our Residential Camp counseling staff make their decisions to apply to serve at HoneyRock this summer.  The fall season is spent recruiting, doing interviews, and talking about the program with students, and much of that work comes to fruition this week.  Dan Elsen, Ann Swindell, and Craig Miller (our Southwoods team) are working long and hard hours this week building the right team for counseling ministry this summer. 

As you know, the camper-counselor relationship is key to the HoneyRock experience.  We believe that the environment that creates the most opportunity for growth and transformation in a camper's life is when a college student is leading a small group of campers through the camp experience.  This counselor plans and leads Bible studies and is responsible for the majority of the Bible teaching and spiritual formation that take place.  The counselor coordinates activities, leads camp-outs, and serves as "mom or dad" for their cabin group.  A college student counselor can have a deep and meaningful impact on the life of a camper.  We know that the right counselor, being led by the Lord, makes all the difference.

So this week we ask for your prayers as we build our counseling team for the 2010 summer.