Moving Forward

The slow season for CP is drawing to a close as we begin our final round of preparations for the summer season of 2010. We are more than halfway to our goal of replacing all our camp stoves before this summer, so thank you to those people who have donated one or more stove to the "Light-It-Up!" Campaign; just a few more donations will push us over the top. We're preparing all of our publications for the printer within the next week. We're working on recruiting and hiring the last few staff that we need to fill out our summer staff team. The number of phone calls, e-mails, and letters from groups who have or want to sign up for a trip is increasing every week. All in all, it's getting busy around here!

This fall CP traveled to two different Youth Specialties conferences, one in Cincinnati, OH and one in Atlanta, GA. We were able to have good conversations with youth pastors and youth from around the country, sharing with them the awesomeness of CP. At the conference in Cincinnati, we partnered with the Ichthus Music Festival that is also located in Wilmore, KY. This year the festival will be June 16-19, and we hope to have a couple of groups partner with us and the
festival during that time.

Over New Year's weekend, part of the CP community was able to get together for a time of fellowship and fun. We got to catch up on eachothers' lives, take hikes out to Chimney Top and Half Moon in the snow, build fires that didn't really seem to penetrate the cold, play games, sit around reading trivia questions, watch "The Unit," enjoy meals together, and spend time in worship and prayer as a community. It was refreshing and revitalizing to get away from the office and enjoy time in fellowship with a part of the larger CP family.

Just this past week, we continued with the renovation and organization of our office and warehouse space in Wilmore. Throughout the fall we had slowly been finishing off the back office space, and since it was ready for furniture, we asked for volunteers to help the full-time staff out for a couple of days to get things back to normal. Our staff came through for us, and we're well on our way to having everything in working order around here again.

We spent quite a bit of time this week on the road on college campuses throughout Kentucky attending camp fairs to recruit summer staff. We continue to be blessed by the people that God brings to the CP family.

As we march quickly on towards our summer season, which begins for managers on May 9th, I ask for continued prayers for groups that will be coming on trips with us this summer, for staff that will be serving them, and for the people that our groups will be serving, that their hearts and bodies are prepared for what God has in store for them.

Grace & Peace,
Katherine