Prayer Update – June 27, 2018

We now have a Staff Page on our website where you can see who our staff are for the summer!  Click on the button below to see all of the staff.

Please pray for the staff as they minister and serve in their various roles this summer:

• Freedom for the Spirit to work in the lives of the campers and staff.
• Please pray for their ministry to their campers through the devotions and Bible studies they lead in the cabins as well as the times they spend with their campers around the camp.
• Pray for their relationships with their fellow staff members that God would grant unity to the staff.
• Pray for opportunities for discipleship with their LITs as well as wisdom in how to work with and teach the junior staff member.
• Twice daily the campers attend chapel. Pray for the speakers and for the discussion that may come from the chapel message afterwards.
• Pray for health and safety, energy, enthusiasm, patience, wisdom and discernment.
• Quality time spent in personal devotions and prayer.
• The Holy Spirit’s guidance, gifts and fruit developed daily.

The second half of our staff training starts on Saturday, June 30 @ 5:00.  Our senior cabin leaders, leadership staff and LITs (Leaders in Training) will be here.  The senior staff will be finished on Thursday, July 5 and the LITs will be here until Friday, July 6.

This year we have 14 LITs under the leadership of Logan Seipp and Hannah Ukrainetz.

It has become a tradition to have the Stoney board members come for one evening to meet the senior staff: they come for supper then play a ball game (its debatable who wins at those games) and then a time of sharing and prayer.  It is always a fun time.  This year it will take place on Tuesday evening.

Please Pray:

• Pray for the training that the staff would learn well and be prepared for the summer.
• Pray for those who will coming in to teach the doctrine sessions to the staff - for wisdom and clarity as they teach and that the information taught wouldn't just be intellectual knowledge but transformative to the lives and faith of the staff as they will be teaching this to the campers.
• Pray for staff unity and good times together.
• Pray for Hannah and Logan who will be leading the LIT training for the first time.
• Pray for the ministry opportunity we will have as the senior staff leads some games on July 1 at Kipabiskau Regional Park for the kids.  Pray that many would be interested in coming to camp this summer.

We have set up a group on Facebook to connect with and keep our Alumni Staff updated on what is going on at Stoney.  If you were a staff member at some point in the history of Stoney - cook, cabin leader/counsellor, nurse, speaker, maintenance, grandparent - are on Facebook and haven't received an invite to be part of the group, please invite yourself!  Or if you have been invited and know of other staff members who aren't part of the group yet, please invite them.

The group is called SLBC Staff Alumni or click the button below to go to the group.

Praise for how well the spring went: the many school groups, the work that was accomplished and the great staff who helped get things ready!

Praise for the amazing turn-out and day we had at the Open House!

Pray for more campers - we have spots available in every camp.

Pray for the speakers and staff as they prepare for the summer.

Pray for the campers who are registered that God would prepare their hearts for the Gospel message they will hear this summer.

Pray that above all that the staff would live out Stoney's mission statement - To present and promote the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ - whether that is at camp or away from camp.

Thanks in advance for praying for Stoney.  If you have further questions or would like to know how to pray more, check out the website or our Facebook page.  We will post pictures each week of the things that are happening.  And you are always welcome to contact the camp - Stephanie is ready to answer your questions and give you updates.

Blessings!

Myra Schmidt
Executive Assistant