This week, we are sending out our hire letters for our summer camp, and it's one of the least favorite parts of my job. Our camp hires around 100 high school and college students to be day camp leaders for our church's summer program. It's 3 weeks of high-intensity awesomeness.
But this week, I have the undesirable job of letting a few students know that they haven't been chosen. Sometimes, we just have too many applicants. Sometimes, they're not mature enough to handle a team of small children. Sometimes, they have no clue who Jesus is and are therefore not great canidates to teach kids about Him.
Each of these letters breaks my heart. Many of these kids have been looking forward to working at camp since they were campers. Many of them have friends who will be working at camp this summer. Many of them have very angry, protective parents who will be even more disappointed than their kids (these parents also have my phone number...yay.)
I know it's just a few students. And I know that we are trying to make decisions based on what will be best for our campers. But each letter still breaks my heart. I agonized over these decisions, double checking applications and interviews. We prayed before we made these decisions, and we prayed during, and, heck, I'm still praying.
This week, I really hate my job.
Oh girl, that would stink! At least you have some fun camp days to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, camp is pretty amazing! Thanks for the "chin up" as my friend says.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you don't get too many difficult phone calls. I'll be praying for you. I know it's not easy for you to turn people away, since you want everyone to feel loved and accepted; but I'm sure when those tough decisions came up, you and the team made the right ones. Love you hun!
ReplyDeleteI'm praying for opportunities you'll have in the next year to build into these students who got the bad news so that maybe next year at this time they'll be ready, more mature, and have personal relationships with Jesus.
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