First!

Hello Everyone!

First, I just want to thank each and every one of you who is out there, sitting at home or in a cafe somewhere, reading our blog. Your support is truly appreciated. :)

I'm Tom Landmaster, a member of the Inspiritus Ministries team. I'm a senior counsellor at our location in beautiful NDG, Montreal, and the head of internet communications. As such, I would like to thank Mathieu "Duke" Leduc for contributing to our cause and setting up a blog for our use.

While our camp does not start until one week from today, we are currently having a special Training Week for the staff. What this involves is all of us coming together, every day of this week, to pray, worship and learn together. We're having wonderful workshops and some really powerful worship sessions. It's a great way to lead up to the summer!

My thoughts on Day One of Training Week:

I'm really encouraged to see the faces in this year's team. We're smaller than we were in past years, with a team of about 15 people. Among them: Two Camp Directors, One Director of Young Leaders, One Artist in Residence, One Artistic Director, One Administrator, Three Senior Counsellors, and the rest (I don't feel like doing math right now) are Young Leaders.
That being said, we have a really good team this year and I'm personally looking forward to spending the summer working with them.

Finally, to make this first blog post an awesome one, I'd like to pray- yes, praying over the internet, I thought it was odd the first time myself -that the matters discussed in this communal blog would be an encouragement to our readers and to the other staff reading eachothers' posts. Lord, I pray all these things in Your precious name, Amen.

And I'd like to encourage all of you- the readers, the staff -to pray as well. We need as much prayer support as we can get! If you're not the praying type, and you just feel like reading our blog, that's also cool! Knowing that there are people who are interested in hearing what's going on is super awesome. Don't worry- it's the internet, we won't know either way :P

So, all this being said, I hope that you'll all have an awesome summer!