| Picnic Grove Shelter House | |
| Description: | The shelter was designed by Tom Burns and when we got there we had 14 holes, 14 6″x6″ posts and no written plans. By the end of the first day, we had concrete bases poured into the holes and three of the poles set up with dry concrete poured around them. The next day was rain and by the end of Thursday we had the remaining poles set up and a brace nailed across one side. By the time we left for Adventureland on Friday afternoon, we’d done the brace on the other side and set the trusses up as well as cutting and placing many of the supporting 2″x4″ beams. By Saturday at lunch we’d finished the supporting beams and had nailed 80% of them in. All that remains is the sheeting on the roof and the shingling on top of that. The camp staff is planning on that being a service project later in the summer for the high school camps. |
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| Chi Rho Village Kitchenettes | |
| Description: | Over the week our team not only put up all of the tents in the rustic Chi Rho villages and cleaning the living areas, but we also built dish areas which will be used by the campers for cleaning dishes after meals. They built kitchen cabinet frames and counters which have sinks that eliminate the dilemna campers were going through before by having unsanitary dish areas and supply tents (think rodents and you get the picture — although I don’t have one of the specific animals). They also worked on framing the roof so tents covered the areas without hanging so low that dishwashing campers had their heads smacked by vinyl coverings. |
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| Cabin 2: | |
| Description: | One of the Christian Conference Center’s programs is a cooperative project with congregations where the congregations get to “adopt” a cabin as an outreach project. Keokuk adopted Cabin 2 when the program began and has been fixing it up since then. Over the week we had a crew carpet one side of the cabin’s concrete floors. A group of adults and a couple of youth helpers also tore out most of the components in the bathrooms. The space is a tight 12’x12′ fit, so the redesigns are intended to allow for the maximum amount of privacy while using the space as efficiently as possible. There used to be four toilets, which we took down to two (one per side). The space is now enclosed off with some walls and a door. They also redid the sink areas. |
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| Name Tag Construction: | |
| Description: | During our day of rain (Wednesday), many of our groups had to find projects to do inside. We had a system set up where a large group of girls cut, sanded and drilled over 1100 wooden name tags for the camp to use for the summer. It’s great to see that this will just about account for all of the campers and counselors going through the Christian Conference Center this summer. |
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| Reorganize Craft Room: | |
| Description: | One of the other projects for the rained out groups was to reorganize the craft room underneath the great hall in the lodge. This is a perennial project for the camp and our youth saved the directors, counselors and interns a lot of time by taking care of it before the summer officially started. |
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| Intern Living Quarters: | |
| Description: | The female interns this summer are located in the old craft room, now fixed and re-christened “Peaches’ Suite” in honor of Phil ‘Peaches’ Kinton, a longtime director at the camp. During the rain day we had a few of the adults finish a shelving unit for the interns to use for storage. Butch Hendricks also kindly redid some of the wiring in the suite to allow for more outlets. |
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| Reconfigured Box-style Furniture | |
| Description: | Many of the furniture pieces created during the Spring Assembly ended up sitting too low to the floor. A group reconfigured the cloth seat bases and tightened them up an inch. |
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| Rocking the Miniature Golf Course | |
| Description: | One of the great new additions in the past two years to the conference center is the miniature golf course. We had a group put gravel around each of the holes to make it easier to care for and distinguishable as a mini golf course from a distance. |
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| Resupplied Wood Racks | |
| Description: | By each campfire and in many of the villages in the Chi Rho rustic area are wood racks for the fires. A crew of youth split logs and carried them over to refill the wood racks. |
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| Doll House | |
| During the cleaning process of the craft room, some of our group found an unassembled doll house. What better project than to assemble it for little kids who visit the camp? Sure, you can probably think of several, but we were needing something to do during the rain. | |
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