Hello friends and family! Did you know that 413 people can eat approximately 32 full sheet pan sized pizzas? That means each person on...

Hello friends and family! Our corner of the Sandbox is gearing up for summer! Temperatures are rising. (And rising and rising.) Themes...

Hello friends and family! If you’ve been a faithful reader of our SandScribbles, this is a fair warning to buckle your seatbelts. This...

Hello friends and family! I do hope you had a little “Fiddler on the Roof” moment when you read the title of this month’s update. That...

Hello friends and family! In the Old Testament, God ordained times of rest: years where the fields could lie fallow or days where no...

Hello friends and family! Sometimes, when you live in a fishbowl like a Christian camp, it’s hard to remember what season it is....

Hello friends and family! Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘offseason’ as “a time of suspended or reduced activity.” Breaking news!...

Hello friends and family! Summer 2024 is in the books! The end of this season produces yet another paradox: we’re thankful that it...

Hello friends and family! Summer is here and half-gone already! It’s a classic camp paradox. Did we have so much to do that the time flew...

Hello friends and family! Summer is just around the corner! This is the moment in every camp’s calendar when the tightrope between “I...

Hello friends and family! Spring has sprung in the desert. The cottonwoods have leaves, weeds are blooming in the sand, wind comes...

Hello friends and family! 2024 has already been a very eventful year! When a big God chooses to work through small people like us, we can...

Hello friends and family! What a year it’s been! New positions in the ministry, new friends, new house, new challenges and blessings, new...

Hello friends and family! I must apologize for the tardiness of this month’s letter. Sometimes God lets us know ahead of time that a...

Hello friends and family! I’m happy to report that there is never a dull moment when you work directly for God. Just when you think...

Hello friends and family! We’re halfway through August already and I’m still not sure what happened to the rest of July. Summer seems to...

Hello friends and family! It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through summer! The last six weeks have been a blur of hard...

Hello friends and family! I would say that we’re all breathing a sigh of relief, but it’s more like taking a gulp of air before diving...

Hello friends and family! March came in like a lion and went out like… well, a lion, actually. April has been far more lamb-ish, if only...

Hello friends and family! We’ve officially entered the Desert-Doesn’t-Know-What-Seasons-Are time of year! Will the wind be blowing at...