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Last weekend (Jan. 30th-Feb 1st) Angie and I had the unexpected blessing of cooking at a Camp. All said and done, we cooked for a youth group of around 50 teens at their Snow Camp.

We had no idea God had this in mind. At 10am on Friday morning, a friend of our called me at work. When I got him to repeat what he had said a lot slower, I realized he was asking us to cook at Snow Camp for the weekend. The scheduled head-cook was ill, and they had exhausted their list of replacements. Camp was to start in a matter of hours, and they still needed someone.

Our friend (who is on the board of directors for the camp) thought of Angie. Not only were we familiar with this camp kitchen, but Angie has helped in the kitchen for “Pitch & Praise” the last couple springs, cooking for 2000 teens. Surely she was capable of heading up the kitchen efforts for 50+ teens.

We decided we could help, and after finding others to fill in for us at church that weekend, we headed up to the Stayner Bible Conference Grounds. An amazing team of helpers was waiting for us. They had already taken stock of what we had, and were eager to go shopping for what we didn’t.

The menu had already been worked out—that was a relief. For the most part, Angie’s serving suggestions were right on! And her scratch mac-and-cheese—it was a hit! One leader came up wanting the recipe because his wife has been trying to make home-made mac-and-cheese, but it didn’t hold a candle to Angie’s!

While the days were really long for Angie in the kitchen, she thoroughly enjoyed it. I helped out in the kitchen when needed, but was keeping Delena busy most of the time. Once I put her down for a nap without socks on. She must have gotten cold, because when we went in to check on her, she had somehow gotten Angie’s gloves, and put them on her toes!

To see some more photos of our weekend serving, click here: http://www.ntm.org/jason-bechtel/photos.php?img_id=52711&category=Cooking+for+HMC+Snow+Camp+2009

<img class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-104″ style=”margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px” src=”http://blogs.ntm.org/jason-bechtel/files/2009/02/2568_52488.jpg” alt=”And Jason thought MY earmuffs were embarrassing…how about some Shrek ones!
(At Bronner`s–the world`s largest Christmas store)” width=”300″ />

Two weekends ago, I had the opportunity to visit our sister campus in Missouri.  Two friends and I went to visit our co-worker and friend, who is now working at the USA training centre.

We blazed the 17 hours there, and with the time change in our favour, made it there by 9:30 Friday night.  It was a whirlwind weekend which included a campus tour and visit to their amazing bookstore, outlet shopping, a home spa night, hiking and lots of great times of talking!

On the way home, we decided to take things a little slower and broke it into 2 days.  We left early Monday morning to visit the St. Louis arch.  It’s a lot bigger in person!!!  We made it to Lansing, MI by 9:30 Monday night where we crashed at a hotel.

In the morning we were up again and off to Frankenmuth.  We visited Bronner’s, the world’s largest Christmas store, and went to Zehnders for lunch to experience their world famous chicken. YUM!  We also happened to be there right after a snow and ice sculpting contest, so we got to see all the finished products.

All in all, a great trip and despite everyone thinking us crazy for driving so far for such a short time, we’d probably do it again!