Michigan campfire

Yesterday afternoon I made a 'pre-synod' trip to Michigan to connect with friends at this year's Illinois Conference UCC Habitat/Volunteer camp at Tower Hill Camp and Retreat Center in Sawyer, Michigan. This year's camp was scheduled for the same week I was headed to Grand Rapids for General Synod 27, so I hadn't organized a group to go. Ultimately the camp had an abbreviated schedule, which would have made it possible, but in the meantime we'd planned a later summer work trip with the youth and adults from Union Congregational, so we missed this year. I did want to spend a bit of time with the folks, however, so I came up in the late afternoon, shared a meal and then we spent the evening on the Lake Michigan beach with a campfire and campfire songs! Good times - if only for a few hours.

I think these are most of the songs I played last night

• More Light
• Sanctus
• The Cheese Song
• Buffalo Boy
• Amazing Grace
• Twist and Shout
• Jesus is the Rock (and He Rolls My Blues Away)
• Have Love
• The Good Conductor
• Home on the Range/My Home's in Montana
• Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
• Open the Eyes of My Heart
• Day is Done
• Flush the Toilet Every Time
• The Cheese Song (grunge reprise)

I'm planning on being a part of the camp next summer -- June 20-26, 2010 - how about you?