My first summer as a kitchen director at LLYC doesn’t seem like that long ago- I still remember the feel of that small, hot kitchen as I wrote the list of tasks on the board each morning. I was working at Singing Hills, where I was a newcomer, with three brand new lady-cooks and a [...]
Read more...The word MOG might conjure up any number of images in your mind- an amphibious vehicle used in WWII, a gene in the human sequence, maybe a mysterious swamp-monster… If you’ve been a guy at Echo Valley in the past few summers, however, it means something really special. Each morning at camp, the boys and [...]
Read more...It’s become a classic staff-week word to the wise: Don’t start a relationship while you’re at camp. “It won’t last,” they say, “and everything will seem different when you get back to the REAL world.” For a few brave couples, however, that camp sparkle never wore off. Brandon Hill and Kimberly (Pearson) Hill met [...]
Read more...This week’s post is a mid-winter shout-out to the Shout-out King himself, Nich Hearn. Nich’s been on staff with LLYC for a good few years, and part of his longevity has got to do with his capacity for encouraging others. In the summer, each morning’s staff meeting includes a few minutes reserved for what we like [...]
Read more...Over the next few weeks I’ll be highlighting some of our current and past staff members that have been returning to LLYC year after year, summer after sweltering summer, and asking them to explain how God keeps drawing them back. This week I talked to Paige, a college senior from San Antonio who has been [...]
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