Annual Dinner with Camp Counselors

Last night, we had dinner with the Lutheridge and Lutherock camp counselors. We've done it before, and I always come away impressed. The neighborhood community who lives in the residential section of Lutheridge brings a variety of desserts, and the camp provides burgers and hot dogs, chips and beverages.We sat with a guy who's finishing the fall semester and then headed to Duke Divinity school and another senior staffer who hopes to come back for another summer or two before he said he probably should find a regular job. I said, "Or you could continue working in outdoor ministries year round."Happily, no one was there to point out the shrinking job opportunities in that field. I will never understand why the larger church doesn't do more to help/commit to campus and outdoor ministries. The counselors I spoke to last night are full of hope for all the ways their futures might unfold. I've found that my SMC students are similarly optimistic. It's refreshing.Before the dinner, I spent…