River of Life

Hey everyone!

A lot has happened in the past week. During week 2 they had a full camp. Unfortunately Tuesday night many people got sick and therefore Mr. Romano made the decision to send everyone home. What had happened, was a fast spreading flu had passed around the campground between campers and staff. This was what was posted on the Camp Good News Facebook page:

Wednesday was a sad day for us a Camp Good News. We were compelled to shut down our camping program and send all of our campers and staff home because of a great number of illnesses that had begun the night before. On Thursday, the Maine Center of Disease Control and the Department of Health and Human Services visited our campground to collect samples and to inspect our facility to determine the cause of the illness. Both of these Departments do not believe that it was food poisoning, but a quick spreading flu. We have cleaned and disinfected our whole campground and have been cleared by both Departments to open again this coming week for camp. We are sorry for any misinformation that you have heard. If you have any questions or concerns, please call us at 897-3221 or 897-6182 or email us at cefsoff@cefofmaine.org. Thanks again for the wonderful attitudes of parents, campers and staff during this process.


Due to our sickness last week at Camp, we were informed this evening that our camp will remain closed another week until all testing has been approved by The Maine Department of Health and Human Services.


So because of camp being closed this week, I am at River of Life Bible Camp in Maxfield, Maine. It's a tiny camp but I know God will do great things here. Abbie Boyd is also up here with me, and from what it looks like, she will be my junior counselor. We both have never been to River of Life (ROL) so please pray for both of us. Please pray for the campers here at ROL, that God would prepare their hearts and that we would be able to minister to many kids this week. 


As for the rest of the college bound, we all will be scattered around the state of Maine doing different work for CEF. Please pray that we can continue to stay united as well as being able to serve God and have open hearts to our new surroundings until Sunday when we are back at camp for the rest of the summer.


Abbie and I will be at ROL like i have previously talked about
Robbie and Derek will be at Camp Jireh
Nate and Jonathan will be in Harmony with the traveling day camp
Josh and Tim will be at Camp Good News helping with maintenance 
As for Ben, Liz, Rebecca, and Aaron, I'm not sure what they will be doing