Chile Here We Come - Jan 2013!!!

Our first camp in Chile started in 2008 with the help of Dr. Becca Johnson.  Since then Chile has added several additional camps. 

Last year Dr. Johnson asked us if we could come to Chile and put on a Train-the-Trainer camp to train the local people there to run their own training center so local Chileans would not have to travel to America just for the training.  

Glenn Garvin, RFK VP of Camps, and I are making plans to travel to Chile in January of 2013 to hold this Train-the Trainer camp.  We’ll have interpreters there, but we are also looking through our Royal Family network for people with camp knowledge and Spanish language skills.

The local Chileans will take care of us once we are there, but we will have to cover the costs of getting there and back. 

We are excited about setting up a training center somewhere in South America and we hope to start something that can take the model of Royal Family to many countries there. 

We are saddened by the number of children around the world who are living with abuse, abandonment and neglect, but we are thrilled to be a small part of bringing the "Royal Treatment" to some of those children and making an eternal difference in their lives.

The costs of the travel and basic amenities will be around $1500 - $2000 dollars per person.  If you would like to help support this opportunity for the Train-the-Trained camp in Chile, please hold us up in your prayers, and if you'd like to financially contribute, you can send a donation to:  

Royal Family KIDS, C/O Chile 2013, 3000 W MacArthur Blvd. Ste 412 Santa Ana CA 92704.

This is a great opportunity we can’t pass up.  Thanks for any part you may share with us.

Great Thoughts on Life

The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.

Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.

Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you have anyway.
Jesus Did It Anyway

The Paradoxical Commandments for Christians
Kent M. Keith
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Eight reasons why the church must be involved in solving the orphan problem.

By Rick Warren at the Christian Orphan Alliance 2012. 

(My notes as I wrote them down quickly).

      1.     The church has the greatest participation; more people attend church in America on one Sunday than all sporting events combined.
2.     The church has the widest distribution; churches are everywhere.  They are often the first building up in a village and are more likely to be the only building or organization in many villages.
3.     The church has the longest track record; for over 2000 years the church has been around, making things happen.
4.     The church has the fastest expansion rate of any organization
5.     The church has the highest motivation; to love God and love others.
6.     The church has the strongest authorization; God’s command to take care of the widows and orphans
7.     The church has the simplest administration; to use your gifts and the talent you have.
8.     The church has the greatest conclusion; we know how it all ends.

Summer Camps here we come!

This summer I’ll be at a new Director’s Training Camp in Lenexa Kansas, then return home to attend a half week of training at the Costa Mesa Camp in CA, then go right into the Huntington Beach CA camp as a volunteer with my daughter Jessica.  That’s 20 days of camp (or travel) in 24 days.   Ya got’a love camp!

It’s not all vacation time.  When you’re the trainer and responsible for the people, the material, and the outcome, it’s work mixed with great times and great people.  Here we go!

Training Creations

As Director of Training, part of my job is to create or provide NEW training materials or methods for all of our existing camps and clubs to use for training every year.  

No matter what job you have, people want good training.  In order to help our volunteer Camp and Club Directors save time and effort, we create things that can be used by all camps and clubs.


This year we rolled out or updated 101 Counselor / Staff Training Manual.  It took a committee of 6 people a year to update the manual and get it ready with new materials and ideas.


We created a box of 100 Ice Breaker Cards to use as a way to "get to know everyone" at training.  The questions are typical ice breaker questions with a sprinkling of "biblical and camp" questions as well.

Finally, we created a "Bag of Values", wristbands for the camps and clubs.  These are the common wristbands you see around these days in our three values colors along with a value printed on each wristband.  Not only can these be used as easy give-a-ways, but we encourage our volunteers to find people living out one of these values at camp or club, and then give away one of their wrist bands to that person as encouragement.

Jessica, Jonathan and I had a great day with about 30 people shooting in the desert.