Growing up in a resort setting gives a person a special portal view on life. Most individuals and families will be on vacation for a limited amount of time each summer.
But what if you were to grow up in a vacation resort where each week, every summer, your life was increasingly different than the summer before? Where every summer, you had the chance to meet new individuals, often each week. What if you had the opportunity to work with college students from across the USA and other countries? How would those experiences shape your life as an adolescent and then a young adult?
This book takes you on a journey through the eyes of a child who had the privilege of growing up in a vacation world high in the Colorado Rockies in a resort setting. From pumping gas to serving watermelon for two thousand or more, to seeing the joy of families vacationing and working with summer college staff that created lifetime friendships, the author places into words what it was like to live in a rocky mountain paradise.
This is your chance to read about a kid who grew up in a one-of-a-kind Christian camp/resort setting and the individuals he met and how many people from all walks of life, along with a resort, can shape and influence a life.
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Life can offer opportunities at the most unusual times, even with a simple request to drive a car, and your life is changed forever. Which then leads to a career with the YMCA of the Rockies.
The question arises,
“How do you create a family vacation and conference center out of land that was once homesteaded?”
You need to construct not only the roads but install all the infrastructure, build the buildings, and market the property to successfully pay for everything. A daunting challenge, but when God calls, you answer.
This is the story of a college student asked to drive a YMCA of the Rockies board member to a homestead that was for sale, and witness the decision to create Snow Mountain Ranch YMCA, and eventually working there for over a decade during the formative years.
Snow Mountain turned fifty in 2019. This is the story about the early years, the challenges, the excitement, and the opportunity of a lifetime.
Gilbert Small is no ordinary elf. He is not content sitting on a shelf as he believes there is more to life than being a shelf elf. So, Gilbert decides to find out the meaning of life and joy by jumping off the shelf and asking all that he encounters, “Where do I find the meaning of life and joy?”
Join Gilbert in his quest as he finds the true meaning of life and joy. Gilbert’s journey is from December 1st to December 25th as he discovers what he is searching for.
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“What is the meaning of life? Join Gilbert Small on this exciting quest to discover the answer. Young and old readers will enjoy the adventure and will be encouraged and edified by Scriptural truth on the journey.”
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