Camp Shiloh

One of Lawton's favorite things to do: ride the tractor! Lawton and Chad also supervise a huge concrete mixer pouring a new porch in the picture on the right. At the top: Lawton and "Crazy Becky" from church hang out in the rec hall.

This June, Chad and I took Lawton to Camp Shiloh in Woodridge, NY for the first time. I worked the summer of '99 and Chad and I worked there for a summer when we were engaged in 2000. We have taken work groups from church up there for the past six years. I have not been able to go the past two years because Lawton has been too little, but we thought we would take the plunge this year and introduce him to Shiloh. Surprisingly, he was perfect the entire week, even on the plane ride. . . so good we thought something was wrong with him! :) Now he thinks every plane in the sky is going to Camp Shiloh!

We had a great group and were able to get a very wide assortment of jobs accomplished this year. (For those of you who don't know, Shiloh is a very rustic camp in the Catskill Mountains that serves inner city children from NYC and Bridgeport, CT.) Chad's parents were there once again and my dad was able to see Shiloh for the first time after I have told them about it for eight years! Mom came up at the end of the week as well (my granddaddy had a stroke the night before we were planning to leave and she stayed to take care of him. He is improving every day now.) I am sure there will be many more opportunities for us to take them again!