Training Up AKA "The Most Sleep You'll Get This Summer"

Deep Impact, Staff Training

Well, this is it.  This is me, being on staff with an organization I've been a part of for 5 summers now.  This is me, working and being one of the cool staffers that I've looked up to for so many years.  This is real life.  And honestly, I can't believe that it's even happening.  Even though it's around me all day, every day, right in front of my face.  

It's finally sunk in though.  Now that we've sorted T-Shirts and gotten all sorts of swag with "Deep Impact Missions" plastered on the front.  Now that I've bonded with the amazing people, half of which I'll be with all summer.  Now that we're over halfway through with Staff Training.  Now that I'm about to learn how to make the famous "Smooshies"  [Where smoothie and slushy meet] that I've had every summer.  Now that I know Tom Beam, the director, and have already begun teasing him and the others here on staff.  Now that God has already shown us his providence and knowledge and just overall care and love for this amazing team.  

But every once in a while I just sort of step back and look at this place.  Where I was doing a mission trip as a Rising Junior in high school, a moment when God really spoke to me and told me he would take care of me and guide my life to where he wanted me to go.  

If you'd told me then that I'd go through the next four years and somehow end up back at this place, on Deep Impact staff, I don't think I would have believed you.  

This week has been a lot of information.  A lot of overwhelming sights and sounds and feelings.  A lot of sweat and uses of muscles that don't like to be used and are now in protest.  But also a lot of fun.  And a lot of blessings.  

I know this is only the first week, and I know I may have a momentarily different opinion come Registration tomorrow, which I'm mainly in charge of, but I am pretty confident that this will be one of the best summers of my life.  

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Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for us staffers, both the Blue and Orange teams, that we would continue to be hard-working and diligent in everything we need to do to get ready.  
• Pray for the campers at our first two sites this week, that God would begin to work in their hearts before they enter camp.
• Pray that we would be patient and calm with our first week, for a lot of us it truly is our first ever Deep Impact missions week as staffers, and it's a little daunting.  
• Pray that no matter what happens, God would get all of the glory.  May He shine in our shortcomings and show us his magnificence, or may He be given all credit when everything runs as smoothly as possible.  Let Him increase, and let us decrease.