Raise your hand if you like toilets!! Saturday night we had our, "1st annual remake of our what used to be annual," Quail Supper. We nearly had a full house in spite of the rain and all had a very good time. The dinner itself was delicious as was all of the pies and cakes that were donated by ladies from the area churches (Mtn. George, Dover, Dardanelle, River Park, Westside and possibly others I am unaware of). A very large half pumpkin half red velvet cake with cream cheese icing was donated by The Cake Place
www.thecakeplacebakery.com in Russellville, AR. The quail was grown locally by Robert Dale of Dover and was cooked by the Roy Family from the River Park church just south of Russellville, AR by the dam. I am told they give of their time frequently to help cook for worthy functions. Recently, they gave up their Thanksgiving day to cook for anyone in need or desire to share in a dinner at their church. Becky Miller did a great job of putting things together as did the members of the board for selling their tickets.
The pictures above were taken during the dinner when I had everyone raise their hands if they liked having toilets. Ha! All were in agreement and showed it with their pocket book. I picked on Chris George first but it was his wife Cathy who got the ball rolling by saying she was so pleased with the idea of having good toilets to use in the new retreat facility she was willing to buy one. Everyone else jumped in as I jokingly prodded a little and pledged to buy all of the toilets, sinks, interior doors and paint for the downstairs of the new building. This is a good example of how when we all pull together we can accomplish great things.One sink and one toilet at a time things can get done.
As I tease about this all I want to convey how truly grateful I am to all those that bought tickets, brought desserts, bought items for the building, cleaned up, set up or did anything at all to help. It was a huge success because of you.
During the dinner I thought to myself how neat it is that we have formed over the years this sort of Camp Caudle family. I knew many of the folks there and to my knowledge would not have otherwise had it not been for the camp. All of you are so gracious, loving and are genuinely seeking for camp to succeed in serving the Lord. Thank you so much! Also, I want to thank the Beebe church of Christ youth (7ups) for letting us interrupt their yearly retreat to have the dinner. They were very gracious under the leadership of their new youth minister Matt Love and seemed to find someplace to hide for that afternoon while we set up, ate and cleaned up. Thank you. The Servers (Rachel Shipman, Mandy Sublett, Cole Van Horn, Michael Shipman, Hannah Kenney, Chris and Cathy George and Debbie Shipman) gave up their night and worked so hard. We could not have done it with out you all thank you.
Today, I had the opportunity to preach at both the River Park and the Westside congregations. They are both supporters of the camp and frequently invite me for an update and sermon. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at both places and am thankful always for the invitation. While there, I had some ask if we have all that we need in order to finish the building. What we lack are the beds, flooring, some money for the plumbing labor and as always miscellaneous items. Whether you were able to attend the dinner or not and want to be involved in finishing this project please let me know by emailing me at:
info@campcaudle.org . If your church or servant group wants to have a work day we would love that.
As always you can go to
www.campcaudle.org and click the donate button to give directly to this endeavor.
A very busy weekend and a Sunday has come to an end. This week will prove to be just as busy. Thanks for everything. Tell your friends about camp.
