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Cabin Fever! News So much is happening! The first cabin, which will be a wheelchair accessible cabin, is well underway. By the end of this week, it will be entirely weather sealed and water proof. Next steps include electrical work, so the contractors can come back in to do the interior finishing, and the exterior finishing. Things are moving along at a nice clip. The pilings are in for three more cabins after this first one, already. Dave and his team are also making plans for building bunks, setting up the boot rooms and building benches. With the future cabins, after this first one is complete, we will be engaging volunteers in the furnishing aspect of the cabin process. More information about becoming involved with the furnishing aspect will be released later this fall. Coming Up ... Once this first cabin is complete in the fall, we will be releasing final price on the cabins. Stay tuned! Prayer Requests Please pray for safety as work continues, especially since ...

we ran our sparks & explorers camps in two consecutive weeks of great! i'm going to post them both at once because all the pictures are in one folder and i'm not 100 per cent confident i'll post the right pictures with each week. so, we'll just do everything all together, all right? i've always loved sparks & explorers because they are so fun and full of great observations and adorableness. these two weeks of cuties did not disappoint! they were lots of fun (and i think they had lots of fun!) and had some great observations about life ("wait, God is BIGGER THAN MY HOUSE???"). sparks & explorers 1: the statistics dates: july 24-29 age group: grades one through four number of campers: 63 other camps underway at the same time: ARISE, Roughin' It Boys, Adventure Classic speaker: Becca Mabbett general awesome rating: seventy-three gold stars, out of a possible sixty-one sparks & explorers 2: the statistics dat...

So I have successfully avoided writing on the blog for this long but no longer. My name is Jasper and I have worked at camp for 5 summers and 3 springs. I come from a small farming community called Gem and I really enjoy the outdoors. This summer, I have been leading a program called Adventure Classic and it has been a fantastic part of this summer for me, so I am going to tell you a little bit about it. So here is a rundown of how the week works: Sunday afternoon, everyone arrives at camp. Once everyone has arrived, we drive out to the Ya Ha Tinda, where we tent for the week at Eagle Lake campground. While there, we hike out to Eagle Lake, we go white water rafting with Mukwah rafting tours , we rock climb and (if the water is not too high) go to some natural waterslides. If the water's too high for the waterslides, we hike out to Bighorn Falls. Back at the camp site we cook excellent meals, play some capture the flag, or just chill around the fire and have some ...

ignite 1: the statistics dates: july 17-22 age group: grades seven to nine number of campers: 95 (yeah, there wasn't a single extra bed on site) other camps underway at the same time: ARISE, PUSH, Roughin' It Girls, Trails Away speaker: Travis Padgham general awesome rating: explosionsofstarsflowersandrainbows

trail blazers 1: the statistics dates: july 10-15 age group: grades five and six number of campers: 72 other camps underway at the same time: ARISE, PUSH, Roughin' It Boys, Adventure Classic speaker: Alison Springer general awesome rating: nine hundred and fifty million

Reilly has reprimanded me for not blogging: I'm sorry! It's busy around here, and that's a good thing. We finish summer staff training tomorrow and our first gang of campers arrives on Sunday: wow. We're excited! Last weekend was family camp: it was packed out . We had so many families here! Two large extended family groups joined us, plus a bunch of smaller family groups. It was so much fun! Our speaker was Shawn Hubert, who shared a meaningful message. Some of the families commented that his talks were very real and practical. While Shawn shared with the parents, our staff took the kidlets out for activities: they spent a bunch of time learning about the armour of God. It was really really really fun to have Becca M. back, leading worship through music. Yeah! She had a great team playing with her, too. Family camp was also a major learning extravaganza for our staff, because it came at the beginning of staff training. We had six staff supervising our wee li...

Father & Son Retreat, two weekends ago, was super fun! Our speaker was Rob Holland and everyone really enjoyed him. I know this because I read the evaluations and the fathers who evaluated shared resounding appreciation of the message Rob shared. (As I am neither a father nor a son, I didn't attend chapel ... so I can't report in further details. Maybe someone will leave a comment?) The fathers and sons also reported that they appreciated the time they were able to spend to together, and the opportunity to "get back to the basics". Our staff had lots of fun too. We're already looking forward to next year (you can mark it in your calendars: June 8-10, 2012). Bottle rockets! Bottle rockets were the funnnnnnest. Hiiiiyah! Jasper is now a wrangler. Sometimes. Contrary to tale told by the full out wrangler jacket (slicker? is that what they're called?), it was very nice day on Saturday! We're 64% sure Owen has a future as a jockey. Good form, right? The Ch...