Saturday, June 27, 2009

9:49 - Thanks for the encouragement

At 9:49 I responded to a Kamp Dad who's in the "Biz", a PR guy at a university. He's my friend on FB and sent a message of encouragement and advice as someone who just recently dealt with this issue at his job. Here's my response:

Huge to get your message and know that you've been down this path and understand! I really appreciate it. Good advice. We have been using some things but can probably strengthen the nationwide/mild summer version thing up so it's more clear. [We really are hearing from many sources that this milder summer version of H1N1 is being experienced in much of the country] Good to know it helped you. We have such a great team here. The transportation team is on their light days between changeovers but volunteered to come in and manage the individual email responses and phone calls for our Health Service Director. My team is in prepping for the next communications and from Joe White down we are all monitoring the health and response of the Kamps as they are on the front lines of the cleaning, etc. I've been very impressed by the leadership's quick and aggressive decisions and the transparency of information to our parents was never in question. Thanks again for the encouragement.


Many others of you have written encouraging emails praising our response and telling us you are praying for a healthy summer, they are all read with respect and a great deal of humbleness and appreciation.

We had a brief time of prayer this morning before we began our work for the day, comforted that that God is with us. Things are going so well. Kampers are having a blast.

This morning the team took a moment to make sure that we had everyone in the absolute right spots to make it a great day of serving and being efficient. Being diligent and watchful as if all these Kampers were our own kids (and some of them have been!)

All photos from yesterday's Kamp activity should be posted sometime around noon (for those Kampers here right now), but I know some of them are up already. There will be literally thousands of visitors to the website today to view the photos.

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2 comments:

Tiffany Anderson- Mom of Avery & Noble K-7 said...

I agree with the others...My children are both at kamp this week and I have been very impressed with both the communication and the procedures you have taken to ensure their safety. I will continue to pray for both staff and kampers alike. Thank you for loving my children.

Tiffany Dendy said...

Our daughter is at KWest and our son is at K1. They arrived via bus from Dallas. I would like to thank the Kanakuk staff and transportation for screening all the children promptly before they were allowed on the bus. They did a great job! Also, thank you for the updates regarding the children who originally became ill, we will continue to pray for a speedy recovery for them. We are all blessed to have such wonderful folks at Kanakuk looking after our children! Thank You!