camp

Well camp is over for the year, and I miss it alot... not so much the 24 hour a day being responsible for 6 or more kids, but the whole camp environment, the whole outdoors serving god thing, getting to go canoing almost every day for the last month, the staff, the spiritual support, the responsibility, etc.

Balanced ministry-
task team individual

task- to show the kids gods love and help them make commitments towards following Christ, teaching them what it means to follow Christ

team- Unity through Christ Jesus, working together to complete the task

Individual- caring for each other, encouraging spiritual growth

Though we only saw major spiritual breakthroughs during a couple of the weeks via first time commitments, there was definitely alot of movement, kids left with a thirst of knowledge, kids left with a connection, kids left wanting more, kids left knowing that God loves them. even if they didnt want to commit, a seed was planted.

please pray for Earl and Ramona, Ramona's surgery is tomorrow, well technically today

in Christ alone
chad

camp

well my first 2 weeks of camp have come and gone and they have been utterly amazing. thats all I have to say.
I have really felt the devil trying to attack me this past day as I have been home but God has given me strength.
Jesus has been at work, and the devil doesnt like it.
pray hard for these next weeks.

pictures... camp

proof that i graduated, sunset, jeremiah taking a quick pose at in the bog, birds that we cant quite figure out what are(my guess was storks


camp is a couple days away and i want some prayer for it, i am feeling a few injuries at the moment the other day i was playing tennis with my brother and there was a hole in the court so they had a mat over it to cover, well my brother made a drop shot so i quickly ran forward not thinking anything of the mat and i rolled my ankle on it, and my knee has been acting up a little too i sprained my acl like 5 months ago snowboarding and its never been the same

second, i am not a morning person, i need my sleep, staff meetings are pretty early for me, so pray that i wont be tired at camp

also pray that the camp will get the staff they need, so that we arent running around like chickens with our heads cut off.

-chad ps. this will probably be my last post for a while as i am at camp for almost a month staright

whoa

I have like a million things I want to talk about but not alot of time.. haha so everythings going to be pretty short... i might expand on a few things later, but you know my blogging habits that might not ever happen

First off I graduated last thursday, which was awesome. then had my grad dinner that evening which was pretty fun too, sophia was my escort.

Then on friday me and jeremiah left for a canoe trip to war eagle lake which was amazing, it was just me and jeremiah, and ill tell you now I dont think I could have survived 5 days straight with anyone else haha. this trip had 2 km of portage probably about .5 km of portage through bog where we were up to our waists in nasty creek water, and went though 4 lakes. god was amazing, keeping us safe, giving us good weather when we prayed for it. the last night it was raining pretty hard, so pretty much whenever either me or jeremiah would wake up we would pray for good weather and guess what, when we woke up it never rained all day even though it looked like it should have been.

On sunday I leave for camp for 4 weeks, which I'm kinda scared for, oddly, I keep on praying for the camp, praying that we will not only get enough staff but get the right staff, so that we can show those kids who Jesus is with effectiveness. You know sometimes I bash short term missions, as I feel they arent effective unless there is a solid foundation built. and I pray that camp wont just be something these kids go to, but something that lives with them forever.

I just finished reading light force which in my opinion was a amazing read, its a book by Brother Andrew about the middle east.

as for what i said in my last post about God showing his power here are a few recent experiences in my life
I got some unexpected monetary support for camp which will nicely cover the cost of gas to get out there and back a few times
The power of prayer has just been so evident for me, one thing being the way he stopped the rain on our way home from canoing
how i have been offered jobs for the fall without even really searching for them
so much more...

-chad

havent blogged in a while

I think I'm going to blame it on being busy alot but really it takes like 5 minutes to make a post and sometimes I spend hours on the computer not doing anything productful. So I'll just be honest and say that I'm lazy most of the time .

I have quite a bit to talk about though... I had a awesome weekend and am excited for the next couple months.

Well friday was my cousin Nolans grad in Riverton so me and Jeremiah wanted to go so we did. on the way we went to Gimli to get our police reports done for camp, cause in winnipeg they cost $30 and take 2 weeks to get, where in gimli they were free and only took a minute to get. then i got a little confused and drove the wrong way on the # 9 but quickly realized this so we turned around but we were still late for the grad haha. well what can I say, the ceremony was good, Drew Anderson won like 75% of the awards which i automatically hated him for it( i dont really know him and have been told he actually deserved to win those). we wasted some time (4-5 hours) inbetween the ceremony and nolans afterparty doing various things like going to sandyhook beach and driving aimlessly, then we went to his party and it was awesome. it was good seeing people who I dont usually see too often, so we had a great time.

then saturday we woke up and ate some leftover food from the night before and killed some time watching the movie hardball which I felt choked up during lol, then it was off to Morweena for there grad accompanied by my dear cousin Dayna. we were shocked to see Earl and Ramona there, which was awesome that they were there as i thought she was going to still be in the hospital or at least still in Toronto. it was awesome seeing randy, ralph, and sara graduate as they were part of ldc which was a life changing event for me. i really wish i could spent more time with randy and ralph but as they live 2 1/2 hours away we havent really spent that much time together.

i have bunch more to talk about but i think im going to wait until tomorrow...
i have some awesome stories i want to tell about the power of god but ill wait until tomorrow.
chad

schooool

In 4 days, count them, 4 days I am done high school forever
On Wednesday and Thursday I have a 5 hour applied mathematics exam
Here is my schedule for the next 2 months haha
June 13-14 math exam
15-18 camping
18-21 NOTHING
22- my cousin Nolan's Grad
23- my Morweena friend' s grads
28- MY grad
29-
July 4 - war eagle canoe trip
8-
aug 4- CAMPPP

I wish we could go to staff camp but we really want to do this canoe trip and thats the only time that is suitable

anywho i got to doo alot of smelly laundry
-chad-

crazy weekend

60 km canoe
As some of you know I went on a canoe trip this weekend. This was one of the craziest weekends of my life. Challenging and as you will find out very weird. I went with Paul, Ethan and Jeremiah

Day 1(thursday)
We get on the road at about 6 pm meet one of Paul's friends who leads us to her cabin near lac du bonnet where we pick up a canoe. We get out at the lake around 9ish paddle for a couple hours, then do the 2 worst portages ever. OK, normally these portages are really wimpy one is 350 M and the other is like 150 M, but this was not what its like normally. ok so we paddled up to the first portage no biggy, but its pretty much pitch black no moon and a fine haze over everything. so were at the portage, most of the landing is under water but we manage to land, we get out and start the portage. well the portage is up a fairly steep hill and the ground is mudish clay and it has been raining the few past days. now imagine the slipperiest thing you've ever been on. first we carried our packs over, (we planned on doing everything in one trip but decided that the path was too slippery). so we just carry our packs over, we fall down like a billion times and all our stuff gets covered in mud, we struggle to stay standing while we carry our stuff over, we are covered in mud. but we get through it and go back to get our canoe, even walking with nothing on we fall down, so we get the canoe and its pretty much the same old thing we fall down a lot luckily not getting too hurt. then we paddle a bit and get to the second portage, it is about 3 times as hard if you can imaging that. we paddle a bunch and get to our first campsite we pretty much set up the tent and go to sleep. none of us have a watch or a time telling device so we assume its about 1 am'ish. paul tells us that those 2 portages were the hardest hes ever been on, and when he says that you know it was hard.

day 2(friday) aka longest day of our life
we wake up at what seems to be 10ish(later we would find out it was probably more like 6-7), we pack up and set off for McGregor falls, we paddle a bunch more and meet up with a school group which happens to be my schools canoe trip, they are on there way back. the current is strong. we head up towards the next portage we find out that the portage is completely over run by the falls so we have to make our own trail through the forest which is difficult and we lose our way a bunch and get caught in a dead end of wilderness. this portage is probably about 300 m through the bush. finally we get to the coolest campsite ever, right next to the falls, we set up and fish a bunch, we eat supper of farmer sausage and fettuccine alfredo( yes we eat good even though we pack light). and it takes what seems like forever to come dark but it does and we are tired so we go to sleep.

day 3(saturday)
we didnt do a lot this day, we went to snowshoe lake and back for a nice day trip, did some fishing, we caught about 16 fish so the average was 4 fish per person, I caught 3, 2 walleye, 1 pike. i had the biggest of those 2 species a 19" walleye and a 25" pike. Jeremiah caught a bass so he held the biggest in that category. we had fish and rotini noodles with a 4 cheese and tomato sauce. lit off some fireworks when it was dark, then went to bed.

day 4(sunday)
did it all over again, but this time the portages were dry and we could see where we were walking. so we get back we've done about 60Kms not too bad. and we start driving until we notice a bunch of cars parked on the side of the road, we drive a little farther and see a barricade, we get out to see whats going on. we find out that the road is washed out(you can read about it in todays paper (monday) and yesterdays(sunday)) and it will take 4- 10 days to fix it. it is the only road out there so we start freaking out, me and jeremiah have provincial English exams to do the next day/week. so after were done freaking out we go to the natural resource officers and they tell us we can get on a boat over to the other side but we have to leave our vehicles over on this side so thats what we end up doing. we still need someone to pick us up, we call about 6 people ring ring ring no ones home so we call our senior pastor, pastor ralph, hes home and will come pick us up, thank god. so we get in the boat and over to the other side. we havent eaten in hours so we are really hungry, so we go to the restaurant and order, they run out of hamburgers chicken fingers and fries but we manage to get the last of there burgers and fries even though i could only get one patty on my burger, we hear children working in the kitchen doing dishes and putting condiments on our burgers we laugh and joke that we are going to shut them down, we drop about 80 bucks at the restaurant/ store buying a tub of ice cream and eating to pass the time. 2 hours later pastor ralph comes and saves us. we felt like refugees

i have a ton of bug bites, a little bit of sunburn, dont have a car, and a story to tell.

so in conclusion that was a really long post and I hope that my English was alright
heres the news story and video
and heres a map of our trip
we nickname the portages ww2 ww1 and Vietnam