Gideon

Are you ready for all of this? It is going to be a full update! Over the 17th through the 19th, we chaperoned an outdoor education trip to Fort Wilderness with Harvest. (That is the camp that my parents worked at for so many years) We studied all sorts of bacteria and cellular organisms. It was quite fascinating.

Since we were so close to Camp Forest Springs, we dropped off a load of our things at our good friend, Herbie’s house.

Memorial weekend was spent fending off the bloodthirsty black flies in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It was a great time of paddling and hiking through the beautiful creation.

Tomorrow is only a half day of school and it is the last one of this year! We have had a splendid time here and have learned a tremendous amount. I was able to put together a DVD for the kids at school to help them remember what Harvest was all about and what an awesome year we had together. God has really used this time to prepare us for working with kids. We were forced to put together lesson plans and be able to teach meaningful things to the kids.

Somewhere around 1:00pm tomorrow, we will load into the cars and make our way to Camp. It is exciting to be able to return but I am also aware of the amount of work we will have. Please pray that God will make Himself to be our true sustaining power. We don’t want to do this on our own strength because we are weak. I want God to empower us to do His work in the same way he worked in Gideon.

Duluth Harbor

It is to be expected that as we get closer to the summer, the busier we will be! On Friday we chaperoned the 5th and 6th graders on a field trip to Duluth. We spent some time in the Maritime Museum. Did you know that the Duluth harbor is the busiest one in the Great Lakes?

The weekend found us on our way back up to Bemidji where we shared in both services at the Evangelical Covenant Church. We attended the church there for a few years and I also worked there for a year as a janitor. We passed out quite a few brochures and information about support.

Only two weeks until camp starts!

Superior Hiking Trail

It has been an exciting week for several reasons. In church last Sunday, I gave an update on our support progress, which was at the time 70%. Only one week later it has jumped all they way to 80%! Ten percent in one week!

We were also able to be chaperones on a three day hiking trip on the North Shore of Lake Superior with the Harvest Christian School seventh-graders. We hiked 9 miles from our entry point all the way to scenic Gooseberry Falls. There is something about being in the wilderness that gets people to really think about their relationship with God. April and I shared a number of things from what we have learned at Camp Forest Springs with the kids.

Check out this picture of where we camped on the first night! A stream ran right past our heads! Here are some more shots from the trip.