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July 8 marked the start of our very first week of summer camps for 2012. We began with a bang, having a full camp! We had a super fantastic time!

Our speaker was Steve Ibbotson, who is a professor at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta. The kids loved him! He sparked awesome cabin discussions for devo times and really impressed upon the campers how big God's unconditional love is!

It was a scorching hot week, getting all the way up to 33 degrees Celsius! We played all sorts of water games to keep the kids cool, like slip 'n' slide, drip drip drop, and going down to the creek. It was a marathon week of hydration and sunscreen application (and reapplication)!

We heard things like this at our fireside chapel on Thursday night when kids can share about what they learned:

"God took His time to make me His own masterpiece."

"If God's with you it's not as terrifying going down the zipline or riding the tallest horse."

"When it comes to fun, there is no limit!"

"You can do anything possible with God by your side."

"I learned that God gave me the gift of encouragement and that He can use me to encourage people."

A camper gets ready to go up the climbing wall!

  Two campers on horseback!

                                            

 Running in the creek!

 The "happy camper" in its favourite environment!

A camper shooting on our archery range

 Our beloved PUSH kids playing a round of Knights, Riders, Princesses!

 Grabbing a shoe during Pip, Squeak, Wilbur!

 Our speaker, Scott Ibbotson, was a crowd favourite.

 A camper throws a testimony stick in the fire at Thursday night's fireside chapel.