Welcome: Mark Groves
- GIVE: Acts 2:42-47
Devo: Sunder Krishnan
- Please see powerpoint attached
MWYF Update:
- It's an honour and privilege for me to witness what “Giving” looks like from a Foundation perspective. Even more inspiring to hear the feedback of lives changed because of all your hard work.
- Your work, everyone across the board, is the reason that lives are transformed, AND literally saved lives. I get to hear many stories as I work with people.
- Ben Flosman Story and the impact MW has had on him and his family. Loved how the MW Community came together to provide a life changing experience for this young man. He was a guest in, a CEO in 2019 and in 2021 and 2022 he was able to work for a month here at camp. Watch this video
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- Lauren: Our engagement question of this month is: My supervisor, or someone at work, cares about me as a person.
- This summer Jamie and I are going to be putting together some full-time staff events to give us the opportunity to hang and get to know one another better so we can care for one another. Stay tuned!
Announcements:
- The last few weeks have been a busy time here at camp.
- We've hosted over 1000 kids over the last 3 weeks. Congrats to the Resort Team for all your hard work. And let me tell you…it rained all last week and the staff working outside just plowed through it. Which is amazing.
- And we have about 400 guests come through camp this week and another 175ish on the weekend.
- It's actually sunny today!
- Last week was Windsor. Cindy was here and went up to the Hanger for one of the masses and took a little video. I will share it today with the notes. But she said it was really cool to see a school group singing worship songs and it felt like just one of our big weekend retreats! As well, she spoke to one of the principals who said he loved working with the Catholic School board because it allowed him to introduce kids to Jesus.
Summer:
- The Summer Directors are arriving at camp today!!!
- The Summer team arrived yesterday and the Directors will arrive today. They will start to do some spiritual retreat and team bonding this week and a bunch of leadership training as they prepare to help lead this summer.
- Resort staff, they are staying in Rosewood, Hazelwood and Livery Stable, and will be eating together in the Underground and with the staff on the weekends.
HR Update:
- Last year at this time: 271 positions were filled and this year we are at 284 positions filled. Just over 80 more staff to hire.
- We have 19 offered contracts out
- At least 10 offered interviews
- Program: looking great!
- Exceptionalities
- 1 male WILD
- 1 male JH
- 2 female SH
- A&A
- Ropes is great
- Lifeguards is great
- Wakesports is great
- We finally hired the last Area Head
- Still looking for a variety of instructors including: Screen Printing, Basketball, Leisure sports, Sailing
- Hospo:
- All of the supervisor positions are full…which is great! We even have 2 in the kitchen which is always hard to find.
- Biggest area to recruit for: Maintenance, Housekeeping, Kitchen (all jobs) Please help us find 16 to 18 year olds to fill these positions. Anybody that is finishing up grade 10 this year and older.
- Support: Always an interesting area to fill
- HCC – student nurses
- Guest Relations – business or customer service
- Production
- Security – no one appropriate has applied
Last thing:
- We have cancelled Alpha for the rest of the spring and will pick it up again in the fall.
- We will continue with our prayer meetings throughout the rest of May, you are welcome to join.
- Welcome back Chris!
Chris: Wrap up
- Amsterdam was great. Met up with John there at the – Christian Camping Global Leadership Conference
- I then joined a group of 25 Church leaders toured around some churches and ministries and Alpha initiatives and went to the Alpha Conference – 5000 people there.
- I want to let you know that we are well respected in ministry. We often downplay what we do, we were the only non church
- I was impacted by what God is doing in the lives of young people.
- Asked us to share what a major problem in our organization is. Before I would come to this, I would have defaulted to operational issues…and I came out of it saying “broken, hurting, struggling for community, looking for something solid to stand on as they head into their adult life”
- Incredible opportunity for us to introduce them to God's “dream” for their life as we talk about Dream Big.
- We offer something that is unique to young people.
- Colossians 1:19 from the Message: From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
- We know this is the young people that we serve. We know the stats on mental health are worsening amongst our young people.
- MindUp is a way that we can help to create a space for broken young people
- It's just a tool/curriculum to help young people to thrive emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.
- How are we going to weave these things into camp? It has to start with us. How are the things being woven into the camp guest and employment experience?
- Brain breaks
- Gratitude
- Encouraging others
- How are you specifically weaving it into your routine? We need to get this into our schedules and into our routines.
- Let's take a brain break now before we head into the week.
Have a good day!
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