This year's Conference is practically hours away, and that feeling I get...you know that feeling when you are driving down the driveway to camp...is starting to surface. No, Pheasant Run Resort isn't our camp, but for a few days, we all get to come together as camp professionals and front line staff members and be together. It is so easy to feel a bit isolated at our own camps, only seeing those few people who work in our agencies or on our teams.
At conferences we have the chance to spend time with others who think like us, and do jobs that are similar to ours, and especially at Mid States...they get it. They get the hours that we put in. They get that we can sing a song, cook a meal, hug a sad face away, plunge a toilet, and treat poison ivy in an hour of our work day. That's why we say we "Learn Together, Grow Together". We get it, and are all here to share our stories and be better at what we do...for who we do it for: our campers.
The Steering Committee has put together a fabulous conference with the theme "Building Camp Communities Through Diversity". We hope you learn ways to build your own camp communities by using examples you see at the conference. The Program Committee is now called the Program Innovation Team, and they are bringing a whole new meaning to the word intentional. The Exhibit Hall is ready for you to shop and enjoy - there are always fun and fabulous things going on there. Am I the only person who still hasn't tried out the GaGa Pit?
I look forward to seeing you all there.
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