From 1954 to 1958 while teaching, Richard was the Director of Christian Education at Wilshire Presbyterian Church. During the summers he took a job with Forest Home Christian Conference Center north of Redlands in California. He was on a retainer as the Director of The Ranch--a camp for Juniors and Junior Highers. Every summer we would pack up the two and then three kids and move up to camp for 3 months.
We learned a lot about being on a camp staff in those years. It was nothing for the Director to move our family with three little children around from cabin to cabin throughout the summer. Sometimes this happened week by week if he needed the space for guests coming on the grounds. This was not easy. This made us sensitive to the needs of staff as we began to serve in the camp and conference ministry. We worked at integrating staff, counselors and campers as one family in our camps.
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