7:30-8:15

Gather for solo time and prayer. Begin setting up staff dining room for breakfast.  Help set up dish room and pots & pans areas.  Serve meal out to campers.

8:15-8:30

Sit down to eat. Yes! Often just 10-15 minutes per meal to eat!

8:30-10:00

If your main work assignment is kitchen crew, you report to kitchen to assist with meal preparations. If it is housekeeping crew, you and one or two other staff work to accomplish cleaning duties such as emptying garbage cans and re-filling toilet paper in camp restrooms. If it is grounds crew, you might work on watering and weeding flowerbeds, mowing lawns or assist with a landscaping project, etc.

 

If you are on breakfast dish room, you and four to five others will wash dishes, pots and pans and put away breakfast food items in the camp kitchen before reporting to your main work assignment.

10:00-10:20

All Staff Devotions in the staff room.

10:20-11:45

Work crews return to their assignments.

11:45-12:15

Help set up staff dining room. Serve lunch to campers.

12:15-12:30

Eat lunch.

12:30-2:30

If you are on lunch dish room, you and four to five others will wash dishes, pots and pans and put away lunch food items in the camp kitchen.  Others will return to work assignments.

3:45-5:15

Afternoon break.

2:00-5:00

Lifeguard crew reports to waterfront (lifeguards often begin their afternoon break earlier than other staff).

5:15-5:45

Help set up staff dining room. Serve dinner to campers.

5:45-6:00

Eat dinner.

6:00-8:00

If you are on "dish room closing" this evening you will join six to eight others in washing dinner dishes, pots and pans and cleaning the camp kitchen. If not, then you get to relax.

8:30-9:30

Attend summer staff evening activity. (Tuesdays: staff worship, Fridays: Summer Staff fellowship) 

Whew!  Long day.  It is exhausting--but it’s also doable and rewarding working alongside others who aim to serve God and to help you develop a servant’s perspective in often un-glamorous work! Keep in mind,  there are probably a hundred variations on a “typical” day on summer staff  (on Saturday everyone cleans the camp,  some nights you are not on late shift,  some weeks you will be counseling, etc) but hopefully this gives you a good general idea of what you can expect.