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Initial Camp 2012 Information!

Dear GEMS Counselors in Area 3,

Thank you for your continued service to the GEMS in your church! What a wonderful mentorship you are providing for them. You are a blessing!

We are writing to you to let you know about our upcoming Area-wide GEMS camp which will be held June 8-10, 2012! We are very excited to bring you the details and look forward to planning this camp and leading it WITH you.

Area 3 GEMS Camp 2012 will be held at the Lake Retreat & Conference Center in Ravensdale, WA. This camp is located on a lake about 35 miles southeast of Seattle, so it is centrally located for most of Area 3. You can read more about the camp and its facilities at the website: www.lakeretreat.org.

Camp will cost $100/camper or counselor. Please consider how your GEMS club may be able to help financially for your own girls. This is an opportunity you do not want your girls to miss out on simply because of finances! Soon there will be a link on this blog to print a promotional flyer you can use with your girls. It will also be emailed to you within a week.

Each club will be asked to provide at least 1 adult counselor per every 5 girls. Counselors-In-Training are also welcome and will be used as a 2^nd counselor in a cabin. GEMS Camp is open to all girls who have completed at least one year at GEMS and who have finished (or will be almost finished with) 1st grade through 8^th grade. (Please use your/parental discretion for the younger girls and send moms along with girls who may have a hard time being away from home, if possible). Registrations for both adults and girls will be emailed to all clubs so that you can print enough copies for each girl & counselor. Moms make GREAT camp cabin counselors! Please have all the girls in your club return their forms and payment to your Club Coordinator. Club Coordinators will receive a special form to record all girls in their clubs who are attending for their own records and for us to be able to place girls in cabins accordingly. Registrations and payments must be postmarked by May 5. Confirmation letters will be mailed out after May 15.

Registrations will be emailed and available on this blog.

Each club is asked to consider now how they can help. At the Fall Workshop in Olympia, those who attended were given the opportunity to sign up for how they wanted to help. If you did this, you will be contacted soon about your involvement. Here are the areas in which we still need donations of items, money, or time:

One morning/afternoon snack

S’more Fixings

Plan Craft

Donate craft materials and/or money towards the craft

AV person                   

Guitar player/song leader

Mixer games (plan & lead)

Write cabin devotions

Lead Praise & Worship          

Camp Nurse

If you are willing to help us in these areas, please email Julie or Tami as soon as possible. Thank you in advance.

We are praying daily for this GEMS camp and for God to bring all the pieces together and to provide a way for everyone HE wants at camp to be there. We are also praying already for safe travels, safety while at camp, and the weather! Please join with us in these prayers and then consider how you can serve and promote GEMS camp at your club. This opportunity provides girls with the chance to meet other GEMS from all over WA state and to be part of something bigger. It will create lifelong memories for them and for you!

Serving with you,

Julie Ball, Area Coordinator, Area 3

Tami Cleveringa, Leadership Trainer, Area 3