I’m Cristi Lee and I have been working at camp for more than 20 years now. During the “off-season” I am a teacher in Kerrville so I come to you from the perspective of a camping professional, an educator, and now a mother with kids at camp. One of the many reasons that I continue to spend my summers working …
Sing along with me!
Sing along with me! Every Sunday afternoon at camp we have “free activities.” Once upon a time, there was just free swim, but then other activities were added that campers are free to come and go from at will. We have free art, free riflery, free archery, free soccer, free dodgeball, and so forth. So many people, especially former campers …
Kerrville’s posada
What a lovely tradition Kerrville has. The priest at the Catholic church called it a “posada”, which is the Mexican tradition of traveling house to house in commemoration of Joseph and Mary’s search for a room in any inn in Bethleham. And in accordance with the posada tradition, there were luminarios lining all the downtown sidewalks. On these days a …
Giving till it feels good!
One thing that my church sponsors this time of year is an Alternative Gift Market (I know that some other churches do this, too). The idea is to purchase something that will really make a difference in someone’s life, rather than finding that obscure and expensive gift for the person who already “has everything”. The items are from many missions; …
Requiem for All Saints
I’m the member with second-longest tenure in the Chancel Choir of the First Presbyterian Church in Kerrville (sounds too fancy to me; I liked it when we were the Senior Choir, or just the choir). I started singing in the Junior Choir long about junior high, and it wasn’t a couple of years before we high school kids were invited …
Old-style church, new-style praise
Even in traditional churches such as the one I attend, the hymns aren’t what they used to be! Check out these amazing and timely lyrics: God, who stretched the spangled heavens Infinite in time and place, Flung the suns in burning radiance Through the silent fields of space: We, Your children in Your likeness, Share inventive powers with You; Great …