Seeing all of the Throwback Thursdays today caused us here at the Timbers to do a little reminiscing on the past few years. There was a summer, 2009 to be exact, when the Fronas Brothers took the Timbers by storm. As we were talking, we realized that some of you may not have ever had the [...]
How Camp Prepared Me for Life After College
I asked my friend Luke to make a guest post one week, and since Luke and I worked at Pine Cove Shores together I asked him to share how working at summer camp prepared him for life today. Another summer is fast approaching and whether you have just come off of your last summer or [...]
Hi, Nice to Meet You. I’m Jenny Sowers.
Hello Woods Family 2013! I wanted to introduce myself since we are going to be the Woods family this summer! My name is Jenny “Whistle Toe” Sowers and I work full-time at the Woods as the Guest Relations Coordinator. What does this even mean? Good question. I ask myself that every day as I catch [...]
FY(T)I: For Your (Timbers) Information
For those of you who did not know, I recently started working at the Timbers full time. I was a Ranch summer staffer for four summers and came on to Resident Staff full time in August. As a summer staffer you always wonder what it would be like to work at a different camp because [...]
The Boddy Family
I know we have a lot of new staff at the Woods, and the veterans do not really know me either since I was not the Director at the Woods last summer….all that to say I wanted to give you a brief history of me and my family. Oh, and by the way it is [...]
Prayer
Today, I want to simply let scripture do most of the talking. The Lord has used many different avenues over the past few weeks to teach me about prayer: teachings, passages of scripture, and even conversations with strangers. The biggest thing that God has revealed through these encounters is the lack of understanding and practice [...]
Timbers Valentines Day Tips
No Valentines Day plans yet? Not sure what to buy or what to do?! TBA, Brickhouse, and Bat Awesome share a few great tips to help ensure that your Valentines Day is the best! Check this video out to see what they have to say, and from the Timbers Team to you, HAPPY [...]
Who I am in “I AM”: Meet the Woods Guest Services Coordinator
Introducing myself to other people has always had a strange tension to me. My “knee-jerk” response to the command to “tell me about who you are” has always involved a smattering of strange facts and the activity that clutter my life. Even now as I consider how to explain myself to you on this blog [...]
#throwbackthursday
Throw·back noun \ˈthrō-ˌbak\ Definition of THROWBACK 1 a : reversion to an earlier type or phase : atavism b : an instance or product of atavistic reversion 2 : one that is suggestive of or suited to an earlier time or style<his manners were a throwback to a more polite era> Thurs·day noun \ˈthərz-dē, -(ˌ)dā\ Definition of THURSDAY : the fifth day of the week
Te Doy Gloria
As many of you know, Pine Cove takes mission trips every Christmas break to Latin America. This year we sent ten teams to eight different countries. The Woods partnered with one of our other family camps in Columbus, TX (Crier Creek) and went to Honduras. We were in a little town called Pinalejo nestled in [...]

