Terribly Poetic

I don’t think I’ve said it here often enough, but I really love my job at Ranger Lake Bible Camp. One of the biggest part of my jobs is being in charge of all things creative. Like a Creative Director. Anyways, as we are gearing up for the summer of 2010 I have been busy lately getting posters, brochures, t-shirts and the like ready for promotion. I am very pleased with this years design and with the theme of Believe. Here is the official desktop wallpaper that shows off the design. It is from this design that all my other designs will take their influence. I decided this year to go with a much more typographic treatment as compared to the heavy graphic components of last years theme. You can download the wallpapers for your desktop and iPhone/Touch below.

As we look to our theme, what is something you believe in?

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Well, I just wanted to tell everyone about the great place I get to work at here at Ranger. You don’t want to miss this.

A Swell Place from Ranger Lake on Vimeo.

I know, hearing all about my life is exactly why you all read this isn’t it? Okay you probably just check the site, or subscribe because I know you or I twisted your arm to do it. Sometimes I think my blog is more like Creed Thoughts but then I realize that I am not nearly that creepy, weird, popular of a guy. But for whatever reason I still enjoy coming back to this site and putting out an update, a thought, or whatever else strikes me; even when I have know idea how many people actually read it, know exactly how few of you actually read it. Yes, that’s right I am also a geek (duh right), and I track my blog’s stats quite often and know how many of you there are. Wow, that may have been my longest pre-blog I have ever had. Nonetheless, I will care on.

So it has almost been 1month at my new job and I gotta say, I LOVE IT! It has been a challenging month just learning the ins and outs of Ranger Lake, but I have so much to be thankful for already. I am working with so much more purpose and direction than I have been in awhile. I feel that my skills and giftings are being tested and that I am being pushed to use them to a greater potential. While its hasn’t been all easy, no its been challenging, but I love that. I want to be challenged to be more effective in the things God has given me. It’s nice to be working with a small group too. The full time staff consists of only four people, one of whom lives out at the camp and I don’t see him much. So between myself, Greg Benson, and Dave Thiessen it makes for a very fun atmosphere to work in. We have had a lot of laughs already, but between the laughs, I get to see a man with a clear mission from God push me to use my gifts to be apart of that mission. The amount of “God Moments” in the past month has given me a new outlook on prayer. WOW is all I have to say. In this short time I have seen some amazing answers to prayers. I can’t wait to see what God is going to do this summer. Man its great to be working back in camp ministry. I forgot just how the environment of camp ministry pushes one to rely solely on God for EVERYTHING. So with that said here are some prayer requests that we have right now.

• Female Senior Cabin Leaders
• Leader in Training (L.I.T.) Director(s)
• Volunteers as we have TONS of work projects to do before camp
• Greg and I as we are in the midst of developing the summer discussion curriculum

Here is a sneak peak at the design I created for Ranger Lake’s summer theme: Alive. I’d love to hear what you guys have to say about it. But I won’t apologize for the retro, even 80’s look as we had decided that the theme name of “Alive” already sounded 80s, so I choose not to fight it, but to appeal to it, just in a newer way.

Today I am proud to say I completed one of my quickest designs. Early this week Greg of Ranger Lake and Curtis of Camp Kadesh set out to establish a combined summer theme for 2009. I was able to be part of the discussion of picking out the theme, which as mentioned yesterday is taken from Ephesians 2:1-10. Well thanks to alot of input from Curtis, Greg, myself and even one lone contribution from here. Thanks Jared A theme was picked yesterday and ALIVE was chosen. At first it was thought of as too, early 90’s or even 80s sounding. I suggested, when the other options didn’t seem to be working out, that sounding 80’s wasn’t all bad. In fact, when I look at what young people are wearing, the 80s are back. I know this is scary, but its true. So rather than fighting it, I suggested we embrace it. So ALIVE was chosen, and last night I began work on the brochure poster, which is one of the strongest pieces of the design that I do for Ranger Lake.
I can say that today at around 5pm, I finished both the poster and the front of the brochure. I don’t think I’ve ever completed something so fast. Okay, so the whole design package that I do isn’t really complete as I still need to do the T-shirts, but the overall feel of the design is done. I am really excited about this design and am glad that Greg and co. at RLBC are excited about it too.

I’d post an image of it here, but I’d better wait to get the approval from Greg first. Until then you’ll just have to wait in suspense. All I have to say is that the feel of 1980s should come across in the design.