Summer Snip-Its

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains --- summer has arrived.

This is some of Jeff's summer staff - a great crew of college folks from all over.

The Graduate on the left --- she has big goals for kindergarten next fall.

Check out the tongue of our big hitter on the right. This is serious stuff.

Jessie, Faith, Leslie and Polly
So much of what we love about our time here has to do with spending time with these folks and the other interns. Leslie has been mentoring Faith this year and will miss her big time as she heads to Nashville this fall.

Kinda makes you want to hum the chariots of fire tune....
This was at the Sand Dunes about 2 hours away. Hills of sand and in early summer, rushing water, too.

This was taken on Lake Dillon while kayaking with the girls and Mike, one of our interns this year. He has been an adventure buddy for Jeff as well as a big encourager to all those he is around. Mike is also a nut. Before he shaved his head, he went to our Menonite church with a huge, spiked mohawk.

Jeff recently turned 36, and celebrated it by running 16 miles across the mountains at 10,000 feet elevation. He also recently swam naked up at a mountain lake, hiked up and skied down Horn Peak (our 13,000 + foot moutain in the first picture), and has been loving hiking, and fishing this summer in the moutains. He has been a wild man.

Camp has been crazy this summer. Jeff is leading one of the family camps this summer, but will speak all week at our youth camp next week. We will have 3 different inner city groups come to Horn Creek this summer. This is very exciting for us, and a huge answer to prayer. We are hoping to have more interns next year, but money troubles may affect how many interns we can bring on. Jeff will play an even greater role in overseeing the internship, and planning the year.