We arrived the Saturday before Labor Day, 2012 and joined 10 other couples for a three-week sojourn here. This has been a ministry of the churches of Christ out west for decades and is well known in Sojourning. You have to get up early at Camp Bee on sign-up morning if you want to be sure of your spot on this sojourn!
The first work is always getting the thousands of donations ready for their annual Fall Auction the next Saturday. That gave us just enough time to put it together with the home's staff before the crowds showed up.
The next two weeks was spent working whereever we were needed - inside and out. Here Ava and Karen are working in the clothing room with two other sojourners. Ava did this, painted, cleaned, and we all helped put out an important fund-raising mailer.
Gary worked worked at painting (here with Nick- the new assistand director) and on various 'shovel-ready' projects.
Getting re-acquainted with Nick and his wife, Abby was one of the un-expected blessings of this sojourn; we had met them on our first Sojourn at Camp Yamhill in Oregon two years before and now they are here!
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