Riverwoods = amazing

Two days ago I arrived at Riverwoods Christian Center. I feel like I have lived here my entire life. My postion for the summer is a Unit Leader for the females. This means that I will be in charge of 12 female counselors who will be leading the 1st grade-5th grade students. Those girls are not here yet, but I will be meeting them on Tuesday and I am so excited! The leadership staff is already here, and then a little bit more people who will be working as directors of nature, art, worship, chapel, and sports are here as well. With that said, a lot of amazing people are here with me.
Riverwoods Christian Center is a place for at risk inner-city youth. There is a week long camp available for the 1-5th grade. And then there are programs (which consist of job traning, and just help with everything that we take for granted like filling out an application, ettiquette, how to do laundry etc) for 12-18 year olds. If you ever want to hear more about these programs just ask me! The longer I am here, I wish that every city could have a program like this to reach out to their city. Some of the counselors who are back this year grew up going to Riverwoods and come from broken homes. Everyday I just learn so much about this culture that I have wanted to work with for three years now. It is incredible.
Tonight we are having a camp-out. And later next week... well I think that will be one of the greatest and toughest challenges that I will face, but I am so pumped for it!!
This is the beginning of my summer... I love it already. Josh flies in on Saturday, then we are going to stay the weekend with my Aunt 30 min east of Chicago. Bahh... God works in the most incredible ways. The end.