The Morgan-Gurrs

Genesis 8:11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the flood waters were almost gone……
That’s how it feels!
The tents may be up – but the field is very wet and horrible…..so …..looking on the bright side, (Some other camps across the country have it much worse!) this is what we are going to do:
Two of the girls tents are Ok – the other 4 tents of girls are going in the porta cabins we usually use for craft and storage.
The boys are going into the stables – cleaned and disinfected yesterday, and being carpeted today (!) The stable cubicles are actually slightly bigger and certainly brighter than tents…they’ll love it!
This has caused a large headache in sorting it out, especially with the health and safety implications (Which have been sorted and everything is now safe) – please pray for the leaders as this makes the camp much harder – we can’t use the field for games until it dries up.
Many, many thanks to those who have tirelessly cleaned, swept, cleared porta cabins and generally been fantastic in helping us keep the camp running.
And us – we have the caravan, but rather than going on the field, we will be setting up on the hard standing at the back of the barn….very close to the stables!

I thought it was amazing – considering all the rain we have had in the past few days, but the tents have gone up ready for Hungarton camp!
Week one of camp starts on Sunday – and once again the forcast isn’t too good. It would be great of the campers could at least arrive in the dry, and even better, be able to do their late night walk in the dry too!
The marquee went up reasonably well – much more smoothly than usual, but not without some technical problems. (It wouldn’t be camp with out those would it!)

I was wandering around doing the final risk assessments, when I heard a scream – and this is the reason why! Actually there were five of them – gorgeous baby mice! They had made their home in the craft cupboard, and mum had muched her way through quite a lot of the craft supplies from last year!!!

All the photos were taken on my phone – so excuse the grainy look!

Last Saturday was Dave and Christie’s Wedding! Dave is a member of Children Worldwide, and has served on the Whizz Kids team at Spring Harvest for longer than we have! The wedding was in London (Not Kay’s favourite place on the planet!) and was lovely. The happy couple walked out to zipedy do da. Why are we not surprised!!!

Today has been a travelling to meetings day….all the way to Dalesdown to see Joolz and discuss camps, then onto an FFT directors meeting…then back home. At least we didn’t get stuck in traffic this time!

We have so much to fit in this week – final planning for all the events we have this summer – but final preparation for Cheltenham Bible festival seems to be taking precedence over all other preparation at the moment. Please pray for us as we try to finalise everything and get everything done before going off to Hungarton on Sunday morning.

Introducing……Granddad Gurr, an ancient relative of Steve’s. You have to admit – the likeness is uncanny!

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It’s nearly time for the camps to begin!
And that means……..rain…. and more rain.
Hungarton camp starts on Sunday 22nd June, but we will be pitching tents on the Wednesday before. All this sounds very nice until you realise that due to the rain the grass is waist height and still growing – it’s been too wet to cut it!
Please pray that the weather would be just right in the next week to allow grass cutting and successful tent pitching!

And now for a fun memory from last year…..Andy is our pastor and leads the camp on the first week. Someone put his car on the bouncy castle! The castle was fully inflated with the car on it – I just couldn’t get to my camera in time!
I wonder what the leaders will come up with this year to make Andy’s life interesting……….?
Hopefully something I can post photos of!

We did two assemblies today – one at St. Lukes School in Thurnby and one at Fernvale – also in Thurnby! These were preparation assemblies to promote the holiday club we will be doing there in a few weeks.

Hello from the M1 where we have been creeping along at a couple of miles an hour for ages. (That's when we're not at a standstill!) The overhead signs say we can go at 40 miles an hour….more of an aspiration than a speed limit!!
We have had 3 meetings today – we left home at 7am ready for our first meeting in Fleet at 10.30 where we were discussing their holiday club in the October half term.
Then it was onto Worthing to meet with our wonderful administrator – Peter. Although this was officially business….It's always a pleasure to meet with him (and his lovely family!) After that it was onto Littlehampton for a Dalesdown camps planning meeting – starting with a lovely meal. (How are we supposed to stay awake after a lovely meal like that Pete + Jan?)
Anyway the meeting went really well and the camps look exciting and full of activities.
And now back to the traffic report – we have hit that aspirational speed of 40 miles an hour….whoopi-do!