Prayer Update – August 3, 2018

Hi Everyone,

This week seemed to fly by!  It was packed with crazy activities in the evenings: MI 2.0, Rock-Paper-Scissors Competition, Dodgeball Tournament, and King's Ransom plus the campout for the survival skill kids (held in the chapel due to rain!).  We had the huge thunder storm Wednesday night (amazingly enough some slept through it - including myself) showing God's great power!  The weather cooperated for the afternoon schedule all week so that the campers could do all of their skills.  This afternoon we had a beach day: competitions at the beach, some fun activities in the chapel to get out of the sun for awhile and then free time spent at the beach again before heading home!  It was a fun week.

Laura did a great job in chapel this week.  She challenged the campers to look at who or what they were following and spent the week talking about God's attributes to show that He is the one that we can follow wholeheartedly.  She would start each chapel answering questions that campers had for her - some which were pretty deep.  And they knew that she was always open to talk to her and pray with.  These campers are at a stage where they are making their faith their own.  Pray for Christians to come alongside to disciple them and encourage them in their faith when they go home.  We had 4 first time commitments made and I'm sure many recommitments that weren't shared with the cabin leaders.

Starting in less than an hour, our Family Camp will begin.  We have about 10 families registered to spend the weekend with us here at the camp.  The weekend runs from this evening until after brunch on Monday morning.  The schedule is pretty relaxed with chapel sessions in the mornings & evenings and meals and then a lot of beach activities all afternoon and a few other options to try out.  The weekend is meant for families to hang out and relax while hearing God's word to encourage them.

Our support staff for the weekend are:

Cooks: Arlene Schmidt, Blair Enns

Worship Team: Darren & Katherine Ukrainetz

Our speaker for the weekend is Wes Dobson. Wes has spoken a few times for Family Camp at Stoney.  He and his wife, Tina, live in Nipawin.  Pray that God would speak through Wes and that the Holy Spirit would use his messages in the lives of the families.

Most of our staff leave for the weekend to give them a much needed break.  However, a few of the staff such as our Work Crew Leaders, Rylee and Zakk, and a few others will be around to help with different needs around the camp.  Please pray that they will get opportunities to rest and relax throughout the weekend.

Tuesday, Aug. 7 sees our next week of camp starting.  We have 114 campers ages 7-9 registered for camp!  This is a shorter week and meant to introduce campers to the camp.  The schedule is a bit different.  Instead of choosing skills, they go with a team to a bunch of different skills and special activities: kayaking, crafts, pontoon ride, a hay ride, bouncy castles, chapel games, and many others.  These guys are younger and so they need a bit more help as well as take longer to get ready and organized.  Pray for patience and energy on the part of the cabin leaders!  Also, this is a week that has the most potential for lots of homesick campers and bed-wetters.

Our support staff for the week are:

LITs: Claire Durand, Lance Barnett, Averi Nelson, Vera Woloshyn, Matthew Hoess and Morgan Atamanchuk

Cooks: Arlene Schmidt, Corina Caelow, Jill Gendall, Doreen Nyuli

Nurse: Coralea Spratt

Grandparents: Danny & Karen Rung

Maintenance: Russ & Marty Harris

Our speaker for Squirt Camp is Margaret Simpson. This is Margaret's first time speaking at Stoney.  She is married and will be accompanied by her daughter here at camp. Pray for much wisdom and good connection to the campers and that God would speak through her is very real and personal ways to the campers.

One thing I realized I missed over the last couple updates is to inform you about Work Crew!  Starting tonight, our 3rd session of Work Crew campers arrive (in fact they've been here for about an hour!).  The previous session left and within a short time frame the new ones arrived!  This crew of 8 campers (5 girls and 3 guys) will be here from tonight for Family Camp until Friday evening after Squirt Camp (a shorter session).

Pray that the group would learn quickly the jobs that they will do, become a close community while here and that they would learn more about God, developing a deeper relationship with Him.  Pray for Rylee and Zakk, because of the quick turn around in crews.  Pray that they get the rest they need and would have the energy to continue through the week.

The Corn Maze is growing!  And that means that Stoney's Fall Fun Days are around the corner.  Mark September 9 & 16 (Sundays) on your calendars to come out with your family for the corn maze and other fun activities at Stoney!  More details will be coming soon.

The kitten's keep multiplying - we now have 14 of them!  If you are interested in taking one home at the end of the summer, just call the camp and we'll hold one for you - they are free!  They have all had their first shots and because of being handled constantly, they make the best of pets!