Every year at WorkcampNE, some funny, crazy videos are shown during the evening worship to excite the camp. These videos a lot of times relate to our theme and the campers get quite a laugh out of them. This year, we are asking you to participate in our video project by printing out the attachment. The attachment is called “Send Me Super” and is based on the beloved children’s book Flat Stanley.

The Flat Stanley Project grew out of a classic children’s book by the same name, written by Jeff Brown. In the story, Stanley, a regular boy, is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. On the bright side, he discovers that his parents can slip him into an envelope and mail him to visit friends in faraway places. In real life, students in thousands of classrooms around the world participate in the Flat Stanley Project. Each class makes its own cardboard flat friend and creates a life story for him. Then, through e-mail or regular mail, students send their friend on vacation with classmates in other countries. When a flat visitor arrives, host children treat him as an honored guest. They take him along on outings, snap travel photos, and keep a journal of their activities and meals, giving insight into life in their part of the world.

So here’s what we need you to do: copy and paste the “Send Me Super” you’ll see below, and print him out. Cut him out, bring him around town in your local neighborhood, and make a video with him. Over the course of the next week, show us some of the sites with him or have him participate in your volunteer work. Include members from your youth group, your church, and your community.

Videos should be short segments that we can piece together through editing. Please keep video lengths between :30 and 2:00 minutes each. Send as many segments as you can. All files should be in either .avi or .wmv format. (The average digital camera records in .avi and is easiest to edit). When you’re done recording, e-mail us back at edadams146@gmail.com. Include your files, your name, your church, and which week you will be attending Workcamp. All video segments are due back to us by Wednesday, July 7th.

We hope you have as much fun with this project as we are and we are looking forward to seeing you at camp!

Can you believe we’re only 11 days away from camp again? We’re extremely excited to see old friends, meet new people, and have a blast while making a huge difference in Kennebunk! We’ve been busy getting all of our sites together, now we have to pack our tool bins, and get ready to go!

workcampNE is excited to announce that Marc and Jess Therrien have been added as full-time workcamp staff. As veterans of ministry and many camps, we look forward to their ideas and abilities to help grow camp even more! They will assume various roles as camp requires, with their “official” titles being Programming Director (Marc), and Administrative Coordinator (Jess).

In other news, Marc and Jess got into town just in time to tag along on the last few of the site assessments, bringing the total of prospective resident’s to around 35! Be in prayer that we can help as many as possible and show them we are the hands and feet of Christ.

We are lining up the schools for hosting our camps. Our Sr. High will be hosted by The Middle School of the Kennebunks and the Jr. High will be hosted by Sunapee Middle High School. We are already planning for 2011 and 2012. Lebanon High School is considering hosting our Sr. High camps next year.

We are also busy contacting Youth Leaders, inviting them to join us so that together we are impacting New England for Christ! What better way to aid communities within our local Northeastern area while growing the faith of your students. You and your students will cultivate relationships with the residents, fellow workers and other leaders from around North America. And speaking of leadership, raising leaders is a commitment of workcampNE. We have and continue to work with returning campers to help them develop from today’s go-to persons into tomorrows leaders. Working for a week that will last a lifetime, their lives and the lives of those they touch will be enriched, impacted forever. Pass the word along; join us at workcampNE and partner with us in our labor of love to live out God’s G.R.A.C.E. - – - Growing faith, Raising leaders, Aiding communities, Cultivating relationships, Enriching lives.

We met up with lots of old friends which is always a blessing, and were able to have lunch/dinner with a few and we made many more new friends also. The three conferences had a combined attendance of about 10,000 individuals with the Missionary convention being the largest. We had provided iPod Touches as give-aways if you registered at our booth – we have followed up with an email “thank you,” for stopping by to see us. A couple of our winners are pictured here, along with our good friends the Tollers. We are hopeful to have some new groups join us this summer or next based on some of our conversations.

Hello all. We are back from a whirlwind tour of Cincinnati, Hershey and Peoria – meeting new friends and catching up with old. We had a very good time and now it’s time to dig out and catch up. We’ll update this news site late this week… but what I can say for now is our God is GREAT!

Blessings, Ken

Returning from the National Youth Workers convention we are feeling pretty good about connecting with the Youth Ministers. We had some great conversations and continue to meet new people and catch up with old friends.

We spent time this week meeting with local high schools that might be interested in hosting us in the future. We met some very nice administrators. We will continue to contact a few more so that we might have plans for up to three years out.

Now we are off to the Eastern Christian Convention November 13-15. If you are in the area drop on by and visit our booth or join Ken in one of the two workshops he is leading. Here they are:

Send Me!
Isaiah, replied, “Here am I. Send me,” when he heard the Lord ask, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
workcampNE provides the opportunity to minister, like Isaiah, to the local community. Students are challenged with work projects that will provide skills training, a time to strengthen their faith with a meaningful evening of worship (and good speakers!) and for some, and leadership opportunities. Work projects are designed to satisfy all skill levels from painting to roofing; providing the necessary home repairs to those families who cannot afford to do so themselves, or who are physically unable to do so. Christ has taught that relationships are most important – establishing one with Him first, our fellow brothers/sisters in Christ as well as the unchurched. workcampNE is a strong voice in establishing those relationships. Come and experience us to learn more. A modest tuition is charged for the week to cover the cost of materials and the expense of setting up and running the week of camp.

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There’s no “I” in TEAM, but there’s ME
WorkcampNE Inc., a faith-based 501(c)(3), is helping to pioneer into ministry new insights to values-based initiatives; understanding the core of individual(s) and how they are best suited to contribution to ministry. We all embrace personal values. We assume we all have the same ones, but do we? Sustained, effective results only happen as we reinforce equipping and empowerment, which happens as an outcome of understanding the individual even before they contribute to the overall ministry of the church.