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Greg and Trish are settling into their home and ministry. In his first month we called on Greg (our new Food Service Director) to prepage a banquet, serve a "catered" breakfast in a different location on the campus, provide meals for a mid-sized weekend retreat, and provide short-order meals and hot snacks for our New Year's Eve Bash, as well as do deep cleaning and reorganization of our kitchen. Even before her official starting date Trish (our new Director of Programming) lended a hand with the program for our New Year's Eve Bash.

We have done or initial summer camp mailings, updated our registration systems, and begun other promotional efforts.

Summer staff applications have been arriving in the mail since August, but this is the time to begin recruiting in earnest and making important staffing decisions.

About 75 people welcomed the New Year at Lakeside. This was our third annual New Year's Eve Bash but the first one that we organized without the assistance of an outside promoter. Four regional bands played sets in our chapel, and burgers, fries, pizza and other snacks were available in the dining hall, along with our own versions of Deal or No Deal and other game shows. We're grateful to Tim Couper for making arangements with the bands, and to John Williams for providing sound.

We're grateful that our retreat calendar is filling in for the coming months. In the past few days we have scheduled several additional guest groups.