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Dear Nags Head Family,
A week ago we said good bye to the last of our 2011 Red Soul Rising teams. Where has this week gone?
It's been crazy since we left Mt. Currie with our camp staff teams. I've had meetings almost daily with our Recruiting and First Nations Partnership Teams, besides shuttling students to bus and air terminals in the USA. Why do I think we're getting too old for this?
A borrowed van broke down coming out of the mountains and had to be towed in to Abbotsford from Whistler (100 miles) with universals and drive shaft wrecked. Just got it fixed and back to the friend we borrowed it from.
We've both been sick with some flu or something... besides my bride stepping on a nail at camp. But we're both feeling a bit better tonight. Maybe we're just tired.
Mary's car has had major repairs this week and needs more before we leave for Saskatchewan next week.
We're going home to Mt. Currie on Friday to pay the grocery and hardware bills incurred from camp. Then we're taking Stanley and Uriah(pray much for these two new Christian Native students) to SEA/TAC on Thursday to fly to Chicago to be with our RSR host team for a week of discipling.
There's a gathering at Sacht'een, at our camp base, we're going to as well on Saturday...a calling back to the land abandoned under government duress over 80 years ago...our work there has been a key peace in this calling the people back to the land. Huge implications for the Gospel we never dreamed of. Our God is always working!
So, It has been a very full summer so far. I've been playing catch-up here since camps finished from being away in the bush.
Then we leave for Saskatchewan for our NAIM staff conference next week...on to Montana and back to Northern BC for First Nations Partnership connections.
So, with our deep gratitude...and my inability to find words to even begin to say my heart, we ask you to cover us again as we move into these next busy days and weeks. You prayed and gave, volunteers gave, drove, fixed flat tires, and served in more ways than I can even write. We fed 84 campers and 40 plus volunteers daily as well as visiting family members from the outlying communities.Your reward is with our Creator. That's a lot dishpit hours...we avoid paper and heat our water over a fire.
We are totally aware that we could not have seen this camp become what it has without each of you ...including over 42 volunteers from three USA states, Vancouver Island, and the lower mainland here in British Columbia. Our Creator Lord is doing something bigger than I ever dreamed among our First Nations youth.
We look forward to seeing many Native friends this weekend and in the coming weeks as we look to finishing the 40 foot circular arbor and even potentially begin a permanent outdoor kitchen.
We remain grateful to our Creator and each of you for your role in this expanding dream we call ministry.
don and mary
A week ago we said good bye to the last of our 2011 Red Soul Rising teams. Where has this week gone?
It's been crazy since we left Mt. Currie with our camp staff teams. I've had meetings almost daily with our Recruiting and First Nations Partnership Teams, besides shuttling students to bus and air terminals in the USA. Why do I think we're getting too old for this?
A borrowed van broke down coming out of the mountains and had to be towed in to Abbotsford from Whistler (100 miles) with universals and drive shaft wrecked. Just got it fixed and back to the friend we borrowed it from.
We've both been sick with some flu or something... besides my bride stepping on a nail at camp. But we're both feeling a bit better tonight. Maybe we're just tired.
Mary's car has had major repairs this week and needs more before we leave for Saskatchewan next week.
We're going home to Mt. Currie on Friday to pay the grocery and hardware bills incurred from camp. Then we're taking Stanley and Uriah(pray much for these two new Christian Native students) to SEA/TAC on Thursday to fly to Chicago to be with our RSR host team for a week of discipling.
There's a gathering at Sacht'een, at our camp base, we're going to as well on Saturday...a calling back to the land abandoned under government duress over 80 years ago...our work there has been a key peace in this calling the people back to the land. Huge implications for the Gospel we never dreamed of. Our God is always working!
So, It has been a very full summer so far. I've been playing catch-up here since camps finished from being away in the bush.
Then we leave for Saskatchewan for our NAIM staff conference next week...on to Montana and back to Northern BC for First Nations Partnership connections.
So, with our deep gratitude...and my inability to find words to even begin to say my heart, we ask you to cover us again as we move into these next busy days and weeks. You prayed and gave, volunteers gave, drove, fixed flat tires, and served in more ways than I can even write. We fed 84 campers and 40 plus volunteers daily as well as visiting family members from the outlying communities.Your reward is with our Creator. That's a lot dishpit hours...we avoid paper and heat our water over a fire.
We are totally aware that we could not have seen this camp become what it has without each of you ...including over 42 volunteers from three USA states, Vancouver Island, and the lower mainland here in British Columbia. Our Creator Lord is doing something bigger than I ever dreamed among our First Nations youth.
We look forward to seeing many Native friends this weekend and in the coming weeks as we look to finishing the 40 foot circular arbor and even potentially begin a permanent outdoor kitchen.
We remain grateful to our Creator and each of you for your role in this expanding dream we call ministry.
don and mary
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