Summer/Fall - Ontario 2015

Summer/Fall 2015 Ontario Edition Issue 2

CANADA's

HOPE GOD’S MISSION. OUR ADVENTURE.

Celebrate!

In the same way, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents.

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A PUBLICATION OF

CANADA's

HOPE Summer/Fall 2015 Ontario Edition Issue Two GOD’S MISSION. OUR ADVENTURE. Canada’s Hope is the biannual publication of One Hope Canada.

Letters, articles and photos are welcome. Names of many of the people mentioned in articles have been changed.

EDITOR Melanie Mushaluk CIRCULATION & ADDRESS CORRECTION Melanie Mushaluk

Inside CANADA

ONTARIO

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Chairman’s Message

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Field Director Editorial

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Finding Mother

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Galilean Bible Camp

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Celebrating Growth

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Celebrating All Along the Way

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Message of Gratitude

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HOPEyouth

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Summer Ministry by the Numbers

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Monarch Bible Camp

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Partnering for the Kingdom

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Rainy River District Ministries

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Radio Ministry

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Camp Photos

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Remembering a Ministry

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Knight Ministries Bible Clubs

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Cooking with Kathy

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SONshine Bible Clubs

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Supporters

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Willow Springs Camp

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Dorion Bible Camp

SPONSORSHIPS Bill McCaskell DESIGN Kelli Stewart COPY EDITOR David Nadeau Gloria Pederson Jacquie Bolen Menno Hamm

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

BY FERDI VAN DONGEN

Do we have a reason to celebrate?

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IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD SPOKE CLEARLY TO THE ISRAELITES BY INSTRUCTING THEM TO CELEBRATE. WHY? So they would not simply carry on with daily life, but would purposely pause, ref lect on God’s hand in their lives, rejoice, and be merry!

Jesus also used the act of celebrating in His parable of the prodigal son.

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Do we have reason to celebrate? Is it right for us to celebrate? Would God approve of our celebration?

Yes, yes, and yes!

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As a mission, we pause to celebrate the completion of this summer’s camp season. We have prayed, we have given, we have organized and planned, we have wondered, doubted, worried, and then prayed again and again. Looking back on the 2015 summer camp season, we rejoice how God used One Hope Canada’s camps and ministries to present the Gospel to thousands of children.

Hundreds committed their lives to Jesus.

Do we have a reason to celebrate? I say, “Yes!” ABOUT THE CHAIRMAN Ferdi has been serving on the National Board since 1995 and became the Chair in 2000.

As a young adult, he volunteered at a children's camp, and that is where he heard the message of salvation for the first time. He believes that ministry to children is possibly the most important Christian ministry: children need to hear about God. Canada’s Hope

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ON FIELD DIRECTOR EDITORIAL

BY STEPHEN JOHNSON, ONTARIO FIELD DIRECTOR

Y ou will celebrate again!

DON'T LET GO. HOLD ON. JOY WILL COME.

SETTLE DOWN, TRUST HIM ALONE AND CARRY ON. Not only is ‘celebrate’ the theme of this edition of our magazine, it is the theme of this chapter of my life! As the new Ontario Field Director, my wife, Bev, and I celebrate One Hope Canada, the Lord, and all that He has done!

Three years ago, the Lord carried Bev and I off into exile. Jeremiah 29:4-8 was God’s message to us to settle down, to trust Him alone and to carry on. Psalm 13:1 became my sorrowful mantra – “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?”

After a lengthy exile, today we lift up Psalm 126 , “When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy...the Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.”

If you are going through a hardship, don’t let go; hold on; joy will come, and you, you WILL celebrate again!

“the Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy."

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by Faye Rempel

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hen I was nine, my mother, Gretta, died and everything was different without her. Our house seemed so empty at times. I was the only kid I knew who wore a key around her neck—everyone else had a mom to welcome them home after school. I let myself into the empty house and waited for more than an hour before Dad came home from work.

Some days, I tried to make supper and in the middle of stirring the creamed corn, would get distracted.

Dad sometimes got burned corn and potatoes, but he never complained.

He just appreciated my trying.

While losing Mom was hard, and though I didn’t have siblings, I was blessed with an absolutely wonderful father. He was so kind and I knew he would always keep me safe. I knew he needed a wife and I needed a mother, so I simply asked God to send us someone.

A year after Mom died, I was invited by friends to Gimli Bible Camp. It was my first time at camp; I was so excited to travel by bus with friends! As we tumbled out of the

bus, we were greeted by a lady with a sweet smile. She reminded me of my mother and I was immediately attracted to her. I discovered this pretty woman wasn’t married, and my ten-year-old heart was thrilled!

I followed her around all week, and didn’t leave camp before taking her picture and getting her address.

At home, I waited for the right moment. One night after supper I showed Dad the picture and told him, “Dad, this is the lady I want for my new mom. Here is her address.

Now you write to her.” Being the shy man he was (it took years to get up the courage to ask Mom to marry him), he responded with a decided, “No Faye, I can’t do that.” > page 12 Canada’s Hope

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the increase in our enrollment this summer! We prayed that we would have more children and youth to minister to and God gave the increase.

E—ENERGETIC KITCHEN STAFF who kept us well fed even when it was hot. We are thankful for God’s provision of the willing hearts and hands of those who came to serve in the kitchen.

Sometimes singing could be heard coming from the kitchen staff!

BY PATTY BROWN OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

“Celebrating

Our staff rose to the challenge and

served their King well this summer.

Servanthood As the newest staff member, I can attest to the cohesiveness of the summer staff and their dedication to serve their Saviour as a team.

They served with happy hearts even when they were short on sleep. They interacted with their campers in a positive manner, living their faith out loud. It did my heart good to see staff chatting with campers as they walked from place to place. One week of “doing camp life” with campers from a

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variety of home situations can be a challenge at times. Our staff rose to the challenge and served their King well this summer. They were faithful to do what they had agreed to do and went the extra mile.

Here are some of the highlights that gave us reason to celebrate at Galilean.

C—CAMPERS returned from previous years and we met new campers each week. Praise God for

L—LIVES FOREVER CHANGED because of the Gospel! We are thankful for each opportunity we have to share Christ with those who come to camp. Pray for those who made first-time decisions that they would grow in their new found faith. Pray that the young followers of Christ will stay grounded in The Word.

E—EVERY MORNING started with the staff meeting for devotions and a time of prayer.

What a perfect way to start a busy day!

B—BIBLE TEACHING during chapel times as well as morning and evening cabin devotions. We thank God for those who came to teach and for our worship team.

Pray that the seeds planted will continue to grow and we will see evidence of that growth next summer.

R—RELATIONSHIPS formed at camp can last a lifetime. The one that matters the most is the relationship we have with our Saviour. We are thankful for the many volunteers who love the Lord and came to share part of their summer with us. They come from different communities, are at different stages of their lives, have

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We have reason to celebrate as we

thank God for another summer of doing what He has called us to do. different God-given gifts, yet all come with the same goal in mind, that of serving their Saviour.

A—ALL OF OUR NEEDS WERE MET. We now have a Kubota tractor with a loader backhoe which has been given a good workout. There are new showers in the girls’ washroom and renovations were made in the bathrooms in the lodge.

The campers and staff on the wilderness site were thankful for the new dining shelter. Lifeguards were happy to have a new dock at

the beach. We are thankful for the generosity of God’s people.

T—TEAMWORK was evident throughout the summer as the core summer staff worked alongside those who came for one or two weeks. It is amazing how God puts together the staff for each week.

E—EACH WEEK WE THANKED GOD for His provision, protection and answered prayers.

We have reason to celebrate as we thank God for another summer of doing what He has called us to do, sharing His Word with the

children and youth who come to camp each week. We covet your prayers as we head into our Fall and Winter retreats.

GALILEAN BIBLE CAMP

www.galileanbiblecamp.ca 705-356-7961

GALILEAN CAMPER UPDATE: ANNA RADDON ONE HOPE CANADA NATIONAL BOARD MEMBER

Teaching Teacher In a Grade 7/8 religion class, the students asked the teacher why bad things happen. The teacher replied that God balances out the good and bad.

A boy who is often in trouble was quick to correct the teacher.

He said, “No, it's because Adam and Eve sinned and sin came into the world."

The teacher continued to try to answer the students' questions, but with obviously no knowledge

of what the Bible says. Each time the same boy was ready with the correct answer. Why? Because he was at Galilean Bible Camp this summer and had apparently been paying close attention in chapel!

Eventually the teacher grew tired of being corrected and sent the student out of the class.

We encouraged him to continue speaking up with the truth, but suggested he start raising his hand first!

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The boy was

quick to correct the teacher.

He said, “No, it's because Adam

and Eve sinned

and sin came into the world."

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ON FIELD DIRECTOR EDITORIAL

BY STEPHEN JOHNSON, ONTARIO FIELD DIRECTOR

TRAVELLING ONTARIO WITH OUR NEW FIELD DIRECTOR

Celebrating

All Along the Way! WE HAVE MUCH TO CELEBRATE! As the new Ontario Field

Director, I travelled throughout Ontario this summer celebrating what the Lord is doing at One Hope Canada ministries. I met summer staff, saw children being blessed at camp, and grew to love our One Hope Canada missionaries.

1,800 km is a long drive to visit a camp, but worth every kilometer!

It was there, at Sunny Cove Bible Camp, that I met One Hope Canada missionaries Mark and Tina Mast, Rachel Mast and Sara Kellar. It was there my heart broke for the hurts of children, but was also overjoyed at the hope in Jesus presented through the lives of our missionaries and

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summer staff.

Next I was off to Dorion Bible Camp on the shores of Lake Superior.

From Dorion to Thunder Bay, people celebrated the arrival of Martin and Shannan Lord from South Africa as our new camp directors. With one camp property closing and a new one open, we celebrate the history of Dorion Bible Camp, and the

Ps.126:3 “The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.” future as well!

The gates of Galilean Bible Camp, a reminder of times gone by, stand next to the new sign pointing us to celebrate what the Lord has in store for today’s campers. God is at work not only at Galilean Bible camp where Bill Kay leads his team, but in the public schools along the North Shore where Bob & Karen Knight share Bible stories and Kathy Bronson leads children’s Bible clubs. Not far from Blind River, we made our way to Manitoulin Island where we met missionaries Pete and April Van Volkingburgh & their team, who work with youth on the Wiki Reservation.

Heading south to Stouffville –

you’ll know you’ve reached Willow Springs Bible Camp when you see the barn! Tom & Brenda Koert and Dan & Meghan Lowrie not only lead summer camp, but organize missions trips during the rest of the year.

Continuing east, Monarch Bible Camp led by Teresa Ward & Melody Lippert can be a tricky one to find — Monarch is a mobile Bible camp.

Moving throughout the Haliburton Highlands, Monarch sets up (day) camp for a week at a time at various locations. Nearly half the staff this year came to know the Lord through Monarch Bible Camp as campers and are now giving back to the Lord and to campers.

Celebrating? Absolutely!

CANADA'S HOPE PUBLICATION

LARGER QUANTITY MEANS IMPROVED QUALITY

Celebrating

Growth!

WE ARE GROWING! We are so thankful that we now have the opportunity to share what God is doing through the ministry of One Hope Canada (formerly CSSM Ministries) with over 20,000 homes through each edition of Canada's Hope.

This larger print quantity also means that we are able to improve the quality of paper we use for the magazine you are now holding - making it easier for you to read and enjoy for the same costs as our previous newsprint.

Thanks for your ongoing support and enjoy celebrating with us what God is doing!

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BY APRIL VANVOLKINGBURGH YOUNG MOM'S MINISTRY

Celebrating

Partnership Unhealthy teenage relationships, the strong desire to be loved, assault, rape—just a few of the youth ministry challenges in our community. Consequently, we continually have girls coming through HOPEyouth who are pregnant, have a small child, or have had an abortion.

In the last few years, I have built relationships with countless girls during their pregnancies. My desire has been to live out Jesus’ love in practical ways to these beautiful girls. Most are from 14-18 but some have been as young as 12. Often, these girls do not have a support system and are left figuring out parenthood completely on their own. By building relationships with these girls, I have been able to model godly parenting, using my own family and experiences.

In the middle of the night we receive many panic phone calls

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from moms, asking what to do.

Things that seem second nature or common sense to most of us, have to be taught to these kids who are having kids! They must learn to feed a baby every few hours (not just three times a day); learn about the consistency of a schedule; learn how to bathe a baby; learn that it’s okay for babies to cry; learn that not only alcohol hurts a baby . . . weed does, too.

I was so excited when Ariane Martinez joined our HOPEyouth staff this summer! Until now I have been connecting with these

moms one on one, but have not been able to run anything formal on my own. It has been a great joy to brainstorm with Ariane so we can reach this group of girls more effectively this fall.

We plan to host a weekly playgroup for the kids as well as a support group for the moms, and would like to teach the importance of nutrition. We are going to start a monthly “Make and Take” night with these girls, where we spend the night together and make four freezer meals for each girl to take home. It’s our desire to meet the practical needs of these moms, so we have a base for sharing the gospel with them.

How can you get involved?

PRAY FOR US. We need hearts of compassion and the love of Jesus to reach out and embrace these young girls. We need wisdom in managing our time with ministry and our families, so we will continue to be godly examples.

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Girls as young as 12 often do not have

a support system and are left figuring out parenthood completely on their own.

Pray for the lives and hearts of these young moms and their children. Pray against abortion.

Pray for young, pregnant, teenage girls with little or no support, who are still navigating the waters of high school. To them, abortion often seems like the only option.

FINANCIAL HELP. We are looking for more funding for the Young Mom’s Ministry. Any donation will be used to help meet the needs of the girls and their kids.

We can use gift card donations for Walmart, Carters, Freshco, or Independent. These can be used for the young moms and for our “Make and Take “nights.

Practical gifts can also be a huge help. We have a small storage area for baby items, so please email us if you are interested in helping in this way. We don’t always have room, but do appreciate any offers! april.van@hopeyouth.ca Thank you for remembering us and the young moms and their kids.

HOPEYOUTH

www.hopeyouth.ca 705-859-2829

Our commitment to you and your child To find out more about our commitment to safety visit us at:

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FINDING MY Mot her Continued from page 5 …

I hounded him for days.

Sometimes, I would walk past his bedroom and see him on his knees by his bedside. I hoped he was praying for the courage to write that letter.

Finally, he agreed to write, but he cautioned me, “Faye, this doesn’t mean she will want to have anything to do with us.” I understood that, but couldn’t wait to see if she’d respond. Every day I ran home from school and checked the mailbox, and every day—no letter.

Weeks passed, but I didn’t give up hope. One afternoon I opened the mailbox and my heart leapt. There it was, a pink envelope. The longest hour and a half of my life was spent waiting for Dad to get home!

The pretty woman from Gimli Bible Camp, Irene Adams, agreed to meet Dad. She also agreed to be his wife, an answer to my prayers.

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I did get my new mother and I got to choose her! I distinctly remember one incident where my new mom and I were disagreeing about something and when I complained to Dad, he put down the newspaper, looked me right in the eye and said, “Faye, you picked her, you work it out!” What could I say?

My prayers were answered in such a beautiful way, yet recently I realized there was more to this story than even I had thought.

Several years ago I was looking through some of my second mom’s keepsakes and came across a real treasure, a certificate given to her many years before. It simply read, “This is to certify that Irene Adams has attended Summer Bible School conducted at Thunder Creek School.”

It was dated July 26, 1934, when she was eleven.

On the certificate I recognized another name, the signature of the Bible School teacher, Miss Gretta

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McIntyre. My second mom had told me that the first time she heard the Gospel was from Gretta, a twentynine-year-old CSSM missionary, who spent her summers traveling to different communities playing her harpsichord, singing songs, and telling children about Jesus. I recognized Gretta’s name, because twelve years after the certificate had been issued, Gretta McIntyre married my dad and, two years later, at age forty-three, gave birth to me.

God, in His faithfulness, had woven together the answer to my prayer years before I was born! When Dad wrote that first letter to Irene, he didn’t know his first wife, Gretta, had introduced Irene to Jesus and, although Irene had never met Dad personally, she knew that Gretta would have married a good man, so she felt led to respond to his letter.

And, as Paul Harvey always said, “Now you know the rest of the story.”

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BY TERESA WARD CAMP DIRECTOR

We wanted to see God move

in our hearts and in our campers’ lives.

New Hearts

During Staff Training week we discussed the many goals we wanted to achieve over the summer. We wanted to see God move in our hearts and in our campers’ lives. We talked about the importance of focusing our energies and attention on the campers, so they would get the best of us and feel the love of God through our actions and words, and came up with the tagline, “It’s for the children.”

It became an inside joke and a healthy reminder between us.

We had 275 children at camp this summer in our VBS, Day Camps, and Resident Camp programs. Some were repeat campers, some came for more than one week of camp, and many were new. As we travelled from one small community to another, we focussed on the needs

of our campers. We wanted them to have FUN, to feel loved, and to feel God’s presence. Campers told how they loved Monarch Bible Camp because the staff were so caring and fun. They also said they learned lots about God. As we progressed through each week, we saw campers move from singing songs about God to

worshipping Him. We saw them take an active interest in chapel, and in what staff shared in “Why I Believe” and during team devotionals. The staff had both casual and intense conversations about God and His love, about how to stay true to Him, about the importance of reading His Word and about staying strong for the Lord.

Growing with God means serving God and serving God means growing with Him. And that’s what we saw with our staff this summer. Each and every one has a servant’s heart. Time and time again, staff would put in that extra effort, offer to help with whatever was needed, take the time to listen to a camper or a fellow staff, push themselves to give their best, love their campers, encourage each other and their campers. They grew so much in their relationship with God and in their dependence on Him. As we studied God’s Word together, staff felt they could ask questions, admit they didn’t get it all, seek for answers and pray together. I marvelled when I saw staff reading God’s Word together on free time, or hear about their discussions at night while they billeted together or how they texted each other to question some of the points they didn’t quite get.

One staff person said that after last year, they didn’t think it could get any better, but this year was way better. That was our summer at Monarch – beyond our expectation and so full of God and His love!!

MONARCH BIBLE CAMP

www.monarchbiblecamp.ca 705-887-3625

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BY MARK AND TINA MAST CAMP DIRECTORS

Her arms were riddled with scars.

To cope with the shame and hurt of what she experienced, she began "cutting".

Celebrating Christ's

Presence

As the summer of 2015 draws to a close, we have many, many things to celebrate! God has been faithful throughout five weeks of Vacation Bible Schools, two weeks of Bible Camp, and the eight-day Wilderness Canoe Trip we direct.

There were many campers who surrendered their lives to Jesus

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Christ and we give Him all the praise for the awesome gift of His grace and love.

A definite highlight occurred at teen camp. There were 45 in attendance. A significant number of them were First Nations youth, and among them, a sweet, little 13 year old girl.

Two campers who heard the saving message of the Gospel this year.

She wore a long-sleeve sweatshirt the first few days of camp. Eventually she took it off and her exposed arms revealed why she had been keeping them covered. Her arms were riddled with dozens of huge scars. As we got to know her, we learned that she was only 11 years old when she began to be sexually abused.

To cope with the shame and hurt of what she experienced, she began "cutting". Some of the scars on her arms were 2 inches long!

As the week progressed, she trusted in Jesus as her Saviour and experienced genuine peace with God. One evening, I was moved to tears as we sang the song entitled Never Once. The lines, "Scars and struggles on the way, but with joy our hearts can say, never once did

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This sweet young lady can face the

future with the assurance that Jesus will walk with her every step of the way! we ever walk alone, never once did You leave us on our own; You are faithful, God, You are faithful."

Shivers began coursing up and down my back!

I was moved to tears to think that this precious little girl will never walk alone because Jesus is by her side. She will never need to cut herself again in order to cope with the pain of her circumstances.

I was overwhelmed with emotion to think that she now has Jesus bearing all her burdens... giving

her salvation... peace... and joy.

Isaiah 53:5 kept ringing in my ears, "By Jesus' wounds, we are healed."

How awesome to celebrate that Jesus died and rose again, shedding His blood to save us to the uttermost. This sweet young lady can face the future with the assurance that Jesus will walk with her every step of the way!

RAINY RIVER DISTRICT MINISTRIES

www.sunnycove.cssm.ca 807-852-3202 masts@bell.net

You can generously help cover the travel costs of our mission team by simply donating your Air Miles to One Hope Canada. Email or call us and we’ll tell you more about this great opportunity to partner with us in sharing the Gospel to thousands of children and youth from across Canada each year.

If you would like to start collecting Air Miles for us, just let us know and we will send you a One Hope Canada Air Miles card.

Thank you so much for making a difference in this way!

Toll Free 1- 888 - 960 -2580 info@onehopecanada.ca

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MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE

BY JUANITA NEUFELD HR/RESOURCE TEAM LEADER

7000+ Manga Books

The Manga books are awesome!

from the Bible League of Canada!

This summer One Hope Canada received over 7,000 Manga books from the Bible League of Canada to distribute to thousands of campers at 23 camp locations, stretching from Pender Island, BC, to Hampton, NB. What a gift!

Over half the children and youth who attend our camps come from homes with no Christian inf luence.

These Manga books are an effective way of telling them who God’s Son is, and what Jesus did for them.

We are deeply grateful for the ministry of the Bible League of Canada, as we could not have covered the cost.

Response from the frontlines has been encouraging: The Manga books are awesome!

We used them during cabin devotions. It was exciting to see the campers, and especially the boys who have a hard time sitting still, make the connection between the story we read in their Manga book and the same story in the Bible.

Thanks so much, Bible League of Canada! (Mark Wilson, Program Director, Maple Springs Bible Camp, Peachland, BC)

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Transforming lives from the inside out.

Last year, more than 688,000 people chose to follow Jesus Christ and over 9,808 churches were planted.

Bible League Canada partners with local Christians around the world and Canada to provide Scriptures and training through: • Children’s Ministry • Church Planter Training • Adult Bible-based Literacy • Support of the Persecuted Church We’re passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Will you join us?

Visit www.bibleleague.ca to learn how. www.bibleleague.ca @BibleLeagueCan Bible League Canada

1.800.363.9673 Box 368, Grimsby, ON L3M 4H8, Canada

This past summer, in Canada … thanks to

3,753

staff and volunteers … cooks cabin leaders lifeguards maintenance nurses and more . . .

20,530 children and youth heard the

GOSPEL.

Here in Ontario … thanks to

384

staff and volunteers …

1,991 children and youth heard the

GOSPEL.

We present the Gospel especially to those who have the least opportunity to hear the Gospel, particularly to children and youth and we disciple believers for living and serving in the Church.

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Dorion BIBLE CAMP

Monarch BIBLE CAMP

Celebrating

SUMMER

2015 Galilean BIBLE CAMP

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Dorion BIBLE CAMP

Galilean BIBLE CAMP

SONshine CLUBS

Rainy River DISTRICT MINISTRIES

SONShine CLUBS

Monarch BIBLE CAMP Canada’s Hope

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You are a new face to many of our readers outside of Alberta. Tell us a bit about your connection with One Hope Canada.

Souls Saved, Lives Changed,

Christ Glorified

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E INVITE YOU TO EAVESDROP IN A CONVERSATION BETWEEN CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BILL McCASKELL AND ALBERTA FIELD DIRECTOR CLIFF PEDERSEN AS THEY DISCUSS THE NEW VISION FOR CHURCH AND COMMUNITY MINISTRY WITHIN ONE HOPE CANADA.

Left: Bill McCaskell Right: Cliff Pedersen

From age 10 to the present, One Hope Canada has significantly impacted my life. The first prayer I saw answered was prayed by my school bus driver, a One Hope Canada (formerly CSSM) pastor. The first church I attended as a new believer in my teens was a One Hope Canada church. After Bible college, the first church I pastored was with the Mission.

My wife, Gloria, grew up in a One Hope Canada church, attended Camp Silversides many summers, and taught VBS with the Mission two summers.

Fourteen years ago, the Lord called us to rejoin the Mission as Alberta Field Director.

Tell us about the Mission’s history of sending community missionaries and how that led to many churches being planted across the country.

Over 140 churches grew out of the faithful ministry of community missionaries who had a passion to take the Gospel into Canada’s remotest corners. Some rode horses, others bicycled, and some had vehicles. They taught the Bible in schools and promised children a free week at camp for memorizing 500 Bible verses.

Many met the challenge, camps were started, and out of these ministries grew Sunday schools, which frequently developed into churches.

What has happened to those churches?

Many churches joined denominations, went independent, or closed their doors when community demographics changed.

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The National Board wanted to determine rural church ministry needs and discern what and how to effectively and sustainably meet them.

There have been some encouraging developments in One Hope Canada regarding our church and community ministries. Bring us up to speed.

God used Canada Revenue Agency to trigger an initial review. The National Board wanted to determine rural church ministry needs and discern what and how to

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AGC would appreciate our assistance in helping small town pastors raise support, so they wouldn’t need a second job. The more we researched, the more evident it became that we could help each other be more effective at building God’s kingdom.

What does the partnership mean for One Hope Canada’s existing church ministries?

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Then we discovered that CRA does not allow us to have bi-vocational missionaries.

That creates a significant problem for many pastors, who need to supplement their income.

effectively and sustainably meet them.

We even asked: are we doing something another group is doing? Is church ministry needed?

Then we discovered that CRA does not allow us to have bi-vocational missionaries, because we are what they call a religious order. That creates a significant problem for many pastors who need to supplement their income or work in their communities to develop relationships for sharing the Gospel.

At the heart of the new vision is a partnership with the Associated Gospel Churches. Explain the partnership and why it is so important.

Over the past year, much research was done to determine if there was another non-denominational, Gospel-centered ministry seeking to plant and sustain churches in small towns or rural settings.

AGC is thoroughly evangelical, has more than 150 churches, congregations, and ministries across Canada, is non-denominational, and has no missions programs or camps. Because CRA does not see them as a religious order, their pastors are free to be bivocational. AGC works in out-of-the-way communities and has developed resources to assist churches and small town pastors to be effective. We learned that

Over the next year or two, One Hope Canada churches can determine which umbrella they best fit under.

Our more established churches will slide under the AGC banner if they can fully support their pastor.

When a pastor needs or chooses to be bi-vocational, he can be accredited with AGC. This will see our churches and missionaries evaluating what works best in their community. We, of course, will continue to fellowship together at annual conferences and will add AGC pastors to our conference registrations when they need to come under our banner to raise support.

What is your hope and prayer for the future?

Once we work through the next year or two of transition, I sincerely long to see the Gospel going into rural/small town settings all across Canada through community missionaries. I sincerely long to see churches birthed. We have the tools through the AGC and the means through One Hope Canada. Christ stated He would build His Church and it shouldn’t matter how He chooses to do it, as long as souls are saved, lives are changed, and Christ is glorified.

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it became evident that we could help each other be more effective at building God’s kingdom.

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Knight Ministries BIBLE CLUBS

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BY BOB KNIGHT BIBLE CLUB WORKER - NORTH SHORE

I told him I would be praying for him

daily. His question to me was, "Why?"

He just might be the next, great giant!

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Future Giants

Our summer has been very busy, but rewarding. It's always exciting at the camps when young people are seeing God at work. It has been that way from Northern Ontario to Rochester, New York.

I believe that the greatest mission field we're facing in North America is our own young people, especially because of the humanistic values being taught in our schools.

Billy Graham once said, "You

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give me one man totally sold out for God and I'll show you a person that would turn this world upside down." And we have the privilege of working with the future giants!

Just think of all the great men and

women through history who came to know the Lord in their youth.

This summer, we had the privilege to be there as God touched the lives of many young people as they invited Jesus into their lives. At one camp, a boy ran up to me with tears in his eyes, excited that he was going to talk to his counselor that evening to help him to accept Christ into his heart.

Let me finish with this. A young man, about fifteen, working on maintenance at camp, was able to sit in on one of the chapels and he made the point of not missing any after that. He had never heard the Gospel before. When I was leaving camp, I stopped him and gave him the Gospel of John and asked him to read it, and told him I would be praying for him daily. His question to me was, "Why would you pray for me?" He just might be the next, great giant!

SONshine

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BIBLE CLUBS

God has promised that He is able.

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BY KATHY BRONSON BIBLE CLUB COORDINATOR - SAULT STE MARIE

It’s Fall and SONshine Bible Clubs will soon start. Time to prepare lessons, find volunteers and secure approval from the school board. We look at the next 12 weeks of club with eager anticipation of what God will do in the lives of the children attending club. But 12 weeks is a long time and there are days when we just feel we’re not able, our bodies are tired and we only had a

few children last week. Is it really worth it? But God has promised that He is able, He will give us rest and it is worth it. So each volunteer heads off to club knowing that it is in God’s strength that they press on.

The message of salvation is shared with the children, and they sing songs that speak of God’s love for them.

We have reason to celebrate.

SONSHINE BIBLE CLUBS

Contact Kathy at kathyb@onehopecanada.ca

RADIO MINISTRY

USING RADIO TO SPREAD THE WORD OF WHAT GOD IS DOING IN CANADA

One Hope Canada

Uses Radio

EVERY SUMMER, ONE HOPE CANADA’S 46 MINISTRY POINTS WELCOME MORE THAN 3,600 VOLUNTEERS. With camp ministry being so people intensive, appealing for volunteers is vital.

That is where One Hope Canada’s radio ministry comes in.

Since 2001, One Hope Canada has partnered with Heart of the South, enabling us to secure paid advertising for all camp ministries. It’s a great way to spread the Word.

Heart of the South is a two-hour weekly Southern Gospel radio program airing on 36 stations from British Columbia to Ontario—and

around the world on the Internet.

Long-time host Harold Giesbrecht explains how it works.

In 1999, I joined CSSM after working for Golden West Radio. My program director said they’d like to use me now and then as a production voice for commercials. Because CSSM was a religious order, my receiving

outside income was not an option with CRA, so we arranged for Golden West to give CSSM commercials in exchange for my recording time.

From small beginnings fifteen years ago, the concept grew beyond Golden West to Heart of the South, airing on three dozen stations in five provinces.

In exchange, One Hope Canada receives 4,000 commercials and thousands of Minute of Hope audio stories annually, a retail value in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If interested in having Heart of the South on your local radio station (it could help a One Hope Canada camp), please contact Harold Giesbrecht at haroldg@ onehopecanada.ca.

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BY DANIEL LOWRIE SUMMER MINISTRIES DIRECTOR

Summer Road Trip Although we didn’t actually travel anywhere, Road Trip was our theme for this past summer. Our tagline, “Wherever You Go,” came from our theme verse, Joshua 1:9: Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

God reminded Joshua that He was with him, everywhere. We shared that promise with the campers, so they could remember it as they went home.

In staff training, we stressed journeying, not only each other, but also with the campers . . . finding

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out where they were on their journey towards Christ or already with Christ and helping them take another step on their journey. Some campers didn’t decide to follow Christ, but they did have some questions answered or received a Bible and were encouraged to keep

seeking the Lord. However, there were many first time decisions and we rejoiced along with the angels.

We saw thirty campers make a first time decision for Christ this year.

Here are quotes regarding campers who made decisions or received Bibles from their cabin leaders: “One of my campers who got a Bible this week also prayed and accepted Jesus! She was super excited about reading her Bible!”

“Three girls from the same cabin received Bibles! Two prayed for Jesus to come into their lives this week, and one is excited to go home and ask her parents to take her to church again!”

We know God changes lives, but it is so exciting to see it happen right in front of you. When God allows us to be a part of someone

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When God

allows us to be a

part of someone else’s journey,

we can’t help but rejoice and give God thanks for

what He has done. else’s journey, we can’t help but rejoice and give God thanks for what He has done.

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YOU HAVE SEEN GOD USE CAMP MINISTRY TO IMPACT THE LIVES OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND NOW YOU WANT TO

bless future generations.

THERE IS A WAY.

ONE HOPE CANADA'S PLANNED GIVING gives you

an opportunity to direct your gift to a specific camp, region or our entire nation, assuring that Canada’s children and youth will continue to hear the Gospel in the years to come.

For information on how life insurance, company stock or estate gifts can be used to further God’s Kingdom in Canada please call

1-888-960-2580

A note on our new name to those of you who have already remembered the Mission in your will: Any existing wills which are made out to CSSM Ministries or Canadian Sunday School Mission are acceptable and do not need to be changed. For any will written from this point forward, please designate the gift to One Hope Ministries of Canada. Thank you.

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Tell us about your salvation experiences.

REMEMBERING

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ROSIE: I responded to the Gospel when an evangelist came to my rural church near Woodstock and the Spirit of God prompted me to trust in Jesus as my Saviour. William Jones from Hamilton later baptized me; he was used by God to help direct my life of service for Him.

Fruitful Years of Ministry “ Children

SHIRLEY: When I was a teen, I attended an Inter-School Christian Fellowship event in Bessie Plunkett’s Thunder Bay home. While helping with the dishes, the conversation changed to my spiritual condition, and she helped me trust the Lord for salvation.

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Our first ministry was to teach religious education in schools. that grew to twenty-five schools, three Sunday Schools and Bible clubs.

Where did your paths first cross?

INTERVIEW BY HOWARD McLEOD, FORMER GALILEAN BIBLE CAMP DIRECTOR AND ONTARIO FIELD DIRECTOR, ASSISTED BY AGNES FRIESEN, FORMER CSSM MISSIONARY AND NATIONAL BOARD MEMBER

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HIRLEY WHITEHEAD AND ROSELLA deMONTMORENCY WITH ONE HOPE CANADA (THEN CANADIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSION) FROM 1953 TO 1992.

AFTER CONCLUDING A SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY FOR THE LORD, THEY RETIRED IN WINNIPEG. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE MOST MEMORABLE PART OF THEIR WORK, THEY BOTH SAID, “HELPING GUIDE INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN TO ACCEPT JESUS AS SAVIOUR.” ROSIE WAS HAPPIEST DOING CHALK ART FOR GROUPS WHILE SHIRLEY TOLD THE BIBLE LESSON.

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SHIRLEY: We attended Toronto Bible College [now Tyndale University], where we met and later sensed God’s call to full-time work with Canadian Sunday School Mission.

What was your first assignment with the mission?

ROSIE: We were sent to Amaranth, a wide spot on the road in southern Manitoba, in October 1953. Our first ministry was to teach religious education in schools.

That grew to twenty-five schools, three Sunday schools, and Bible clubs. It was a joy to work there, even though our early mode of transportation was by foot or bicycle. During the prairie winters, traveling from school to school could be very cold. God later supplied us with Willy, our little Willys car.

We also had the joy of helping to start Ochre River Bible Camp, which later moved to near Dauphin and is now Dauphin Bible Camp, one of the chain of camps with One Hope Canada.

After a few years in Amaranth, Shirley’s mom had a stroke, and Shirley went home to Sault Ste Marie to help. She took a teaching job in an elementary school so she could care for her mom. I stayed in Amaranth for a couple of years but, by then, it was felt the work

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Our interest in working with children’s ministry grew stronger and stronger, and the Lord seemed to be leading us into children’s crusades with the mission … reaching into other provinces.

was developing into a church planting ministry.

Don and Donna Lee moved to Amaranth and, in God's wonderful way, helped start and build a church.

I moved to the Sault where I served with CSSM as an assistant to Mary Neal, teaching Bible in public schools and working at Galilean Bible Camp.

What was your next ministry?

SHIRLEY: Our interest in working with children’s ministry grew stronger and stronger, and the Lord seemed to be leading us into children’s crusades with the Mission. After consultation with CSSM’s national office, it was decided we should begin a ministry with Children’s Crusades out of Winnipeg, but reaching into other provinces. In 1966, we visited the Maritimes to observe a similar CSSM work under the Whites. That was an eventful trip with our little travel trailer, but such a valuable one. When we returned to Manitoba, we were asked to go to Amaranth for a children’s crusade.

One encouragement was the provision of a unique, self-supporting chalkboard, with its overhead lighting and black light for Rosie’s backgrounds to support my Bible lesson. A man from my church in Sault Ste Marie created this teaching unit for us. Besides travelling to summer camps, our time was filled with Bible presentations to AWANA clubs, Sunday schools, church children’s clubs, and retirement homes.

ROSIE: One of the greatest challenges in ministry was the stress of unloading our packed car, filled with equipment and visuals, to set up for a meeting.

An even greater stress came after the meeting as we attempted to fit everything back into the car.

the black light revealed the hidden climax to the Bible presentation Rosie so cleverly created. At the camp, we were always thrilled when your letter of acceptance to our invitation arrived. We wanted you to join us more often, but realized others wanted a share of your God-centred ministry. Your valuable chapel ministry was a huge encouragement to me as a beginner in camp administration. Even yet, as I talk with former campers, some still say it was through your ministry that they began a personal relationship with the Lord.

What about retirement?

SHIRLEY: Shortly after we retired in 1992, we had the privilege of going to Venezuela for a short visit. Frieda Johnson, who served there with TEAM, invited us to teach missionary children during their missionary conference. It was a joy when some of them grew in the Lord.

Now, after over twenty years, we praise the Lord for His protective care. People gave so much of themselves so we could serve this way. We are thankful for the many children who responded to the call of the Gospel during those exciting and full years.

These two dedicated ladies still reach out to the needs of people, praying that the Lord will enable others to present the Gospel to the spiritually needy across Canada. There will be many in heaven who found the way and the truth and the life through Rosie and Shirley’s ministry.

When you drove into Galilean Bible Camp for July chapel sessions every third year for a couple of decades, your station wagon just bulged with interesting teaching aids. Your puppets took on real life for campers as they saw ventriloquism done so effectively. The remarkable hush from the children as Shirley presented the Gospel through Bible stories was a gift from God. There was often an audible, but gentle, expression of awe from campers as

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BY MARTIN AND SHANNAN LORD CAMP DIRECTORS

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Behold, I will do a new thing.

New Things

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen (Isaiah 43: 18-20).

We live in an exciting time! What a privilege we have to work with youth and children. As we relocated from South Africa to Canada, we pondered the differences we would encounter in youth and children.

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Not only did we enter a different continent, time zone, and mission organisation, but simple things like grocery shopping became milestones to achieve. As we entered our new home in Dorion,

Ontario, we realised just how many challenges lay before us to prepare Dorion Bible Camp for the summer.

Just as our lives were changing, so was the camp’s. The main summer camp property was put up for sale and we steadily started moving resources, equipment, furnishings, and years of history across to the newer summer camp property.

The task was great and completely impossible for the two of us. God brought volunteers to complete our growing task list and, before long, we realised we had achieved so much more than we could have dreamed at the start of spring.

Our summer story is one of God’s faithful provision: new friendships, volunteers, donations, gifts and miracles, and a great camping season with young children and youth from our region and beyond.

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As they opened their hearts to the

Holy Spirit we began to share about a life-changing relationship with Jesus.

Before we knew it, our campers arrived and six weeks of back to back camping was underway. We discovered that youth and children are not so different. They have similar insecurities, fears, and challenges. As they opened their hearts to the Holy Spirit and we listened to their stories, we began to share about a life-changing relationship with Jesus. God started a new thing at Dorion, so we enter the year ahead with much hope.

Being a part of One Hope Canada is a blessing as we see God springing forth rivers in the desert and roadways in the wilderness. We pray for His continued vision and direction as we seek to continue conversations of HOPE in our surrounding community and across Canada.

DORION BIBLE CAMP

www.campdorion.com 807-857-2331

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COOKING WITH KATHY

BY KATHY WEIR

JUST AS IT TAKES THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS FOR A TASTY MEAL , SO TOO DO WE NEED GOD AND ONE ANOTHER TO GET THE CORRECT SPIRITUAL RESULTS.

Cooking with Fire CONFESSION … HONESTY … WAITING. I’M LEARNING THAT BEING DIRECTIONALLY CHALLENGED AND COOKING IMPAIRED ARE NOT THE ONLY THINGS I STRUGGLE WITH. I am grateful that God led us to the theme, Powered by Prayer, at Turtle Mountain Bible Camp (in Manitoba) this summer. Little did I realize the importance of endeavouring to implement more prayer into my life and the lives of staff and campers.

It is easy to apply when miracles happen (we evidenced many) and when God works and answers in ways beyond anything we can ask or imagine.

We rejoice in His faithful provision through donations to the camp, volunteers who come with servant hearts, and the blessing of a God-focused and praying staff team. It is easy to forget we are in a spiritual battle and need God’s armour. I’ve discovered, like Elijah who experienced incredible victory, how quickly one can

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begin listening to Satan's subtle lies, drowning out God’s still small voice of truth. This results in our focusing on circumstances and becoming frustrated, overwhelmed, and defeated.

How does this relate to cooking?

Just as it takes the right ingredients for a tasty meal, so too do we need God and one another to get the correct spiritual results. I am a do-it-myself person. Instead, God calls us to community. For example, this summer God used His people to bless our camp through donations of meat. Working alone, I could have made four hundred pounds of ground beef into 7,000 meatballs in May. Yes, what could have been long and tiring days took only two hours while visiting and laughing with volunteers. As we learned in

the culinary class at Skills camp, there is much to learn from one another as we taste and see that the Lord is good and share the results with others.

It is important to follow instructions when cooking, so too is a successful life recipe all about choices! Will we listen to God’s Holy Spirit, His Word and truth, or the deceitful lies of the enemy? Will we accept the prayers, hugs, and support of His people, or will we wallow in self-pity and struggle, trying to do things on our own?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Howard and Kathy Weir have been serving as camp directors at Turtle Mountain Bible Camp (Manitoba) since 2002, but previously served at Galilean Bible Camp (Ontario) for many years before that.

AS EACH HAS RECEIVED A GIFT, USE IT TO SERVE ONE ANOTHER, AS GOOD STEWARDS OF GOD'S VARIED GRACE (1 PETER 4:10)

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Camp has changed my life “Canoeing “ yesterday was amazing! The challenge of it all was super!!

I went to camp hoping to make friends, but I ended up with family.

Thank you for God. Thank you for this camp.

I feel safe here I hope you stay awesome!

I’m coming back next year! still learning a lot in chapel God bless the cooks!

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I liked being stuck on shore waiting for the wind to slow down

I love the songs “ Best time ever!! Thank you for making everything awesome “ Camp is when I get my spiritual high I love chapel “ the mountains are awesome GOD is awefull. (i.e. full of awe) Please make us read the Bible more

I never wanna leave cause I wanna learn more about God the food is always yum I am glad that there is heaven

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Thank you for getting deoderizor for the bathroom.

Thankyou for being so caring “ Please make swimming longer. I love camp because it is in nature “ I am very thankful for the kindness I LOVE CAMP!! I love God “ I am thankful for God. I actually passed my swim test!!!! “ I don’t want to leave “ I love learning about God

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Thx 4 the food! “ I really appreciate that you are giving us time alone in quiet. everyone ROCKS Thank you for teaching us the truth! “

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