Tina, Heather and Jen

Some of the kids headed out on a trail ride.

David, demonstrating at the archery range.

The team, headed out for our own trail ride with Greg.

Kimmie, bringing up the end of the trail ride.

A view of the Blue Bronna and the mountains beyond from the hill above it.

Heather and Greg

Heather became a professional kindling chopper

The Front Gate; bye for now Blue Bronna. 

Andrew practising his woodsman skills.

Blue Bronna Wilderness Camp

It has been a little while since we updated you on what we are doing and I feel like I have a lot to say. These past five days we have had the privilege to serve God alongside the staff at Blue Bronna which is a beautiful camp located south of Calgary. And when I say beautiful I truly mean it. We got in late the first night making it even more of an amazing experience to walk out of the cabin in the morning and see the gorgeous creation God made. I can’t even describe it so you all should go and experience it yourself, I am sure that they would love to have you.

 These past five days have been such an encouragement seeing how God can use us when we are willing to serve. Going in we had fear but God showed us how we need to trust Him and that he has a purpose for taking us the places that we go. Not only did we get to do new things but we had a lot of fun doing them. Kendra developed her cooking skills and made wonderful food for us all weekend, Andrew was the games man keeping the kids moving and having fun and Kimmie and I were the random helpers filling in where needed.

The camp that we participated in was retreat for the grade seven class from Prairie Christian Academy. They are a group of young and spirited kids that were a holler to hang out with and to get to know. We had a lot of fun going on hikes up Cougar Mountain, riding the horses, singing songs and playing games. During the weekend God was active in moving in the hearts of the students. At our last fireside the floor was open for the students to share what God has been teaching them and it blew my mind to see that they are taking hold of his love and discovering truth. Along with their caring teacher’s we were able to praise God for such progress. I ask that you would join us in praying for these young people to continue to grow and seek God.

It’s crazy how in just a few days one can become so attached to a place. Surely Blue Bronna has a place in our hearts! We will miss the staff (It was good to see you Tina!) the kids, and even the mountains. We all felt so welcomed and love! Thanks Blue Bronna.

NEXT to CIRLCE SQUARE RANCH!!! 

Hi Blog Buddies,

How are you all? We are that your long weekends were wonderful. We enjoyed hanging out with friends and family, painting our toenails and getting a little bit of sunshine. Tuesday saw us prepping more material for the summer as well as painting more in the girl's dorm. We are deep in listening to the Novacom Series on Odyssey but have to wait until Focus on the Family puts more of the series up on the internet. That's okay I guess because we are headed out to camp tomorrow. By the time that we get back in almost three weeks, a whole bunch more episodes should be up. In the mean time, Kimmie has reassured Heather and I that she has at least 16 hours worth of Odyssey on tape cassette. And our dear little mini-van, Jarvis, is fully equipped with a tape deck.

Like I said, we are headed out tomorrow to camp AND we are also picking up Andrew in Edmonton as his mission's team has come back. We are excited to have him join the team.

Our first camp is Blue Bronna Wilderness Camp. We are going to be there this weekend. We called last week to see what the weather was like. They told us it was snowing and to pack rubber boots and mittens. Kimmie, being ever-so-creative, took this as an opprotunity to sport a new pair of rubber boots. Who knew that black and green rubber boots could look so good tastefully decorated with colourfully painted stars?

Today was my birthday so Heather, Kimmie and I were joined by Kate Potter and went to Menchies for frozen yogurt. I will now personally recommend that you should all go there and try the coconut flavoured frozen yogurt. It is super delicious with choclate chips and Skor pieces on top. But pretty much  anything is good with chocolate chips and Skor pieces on top.

Well, the other girls are making supper so I should go and make a contribution as well. That's all for now, we'll talk to you all again when we have our next internet access.

For the rest of the Team,
Kendra :)

Pictures from our maintenance work!

Just another day?

Sitting at Kendra's kitchen table we are sipping tea and doing a little more planning of summer activities! Beware campers, there are some pretty AWESOME games coming your way! We are excited to play them! It is so great to be combining our creative juices and creating a portfolio of activities and ideas.

Earlier in the day we continued to use our new found painting skills to make 3rd floor of the girls dorm beautiful (or at least it will be). Overall today has been a good day thus far, but even better after discovering that we could listen to live streaming of Adventures in Odyssey on whitsend.org (Check it out). Therefore as we painted we were taken on a wild adventure featuring Mr. Whittaker and friends as their troubles with Novacom continued. Not only did Eugene and Katrina get married but they are missing and a string of mishaps begin to take place in Odyssey as a result. With Eugene's research in turning brain wave into radio missing too havoc has resulted in Odyssey even resulting in the death of Mitch. Lets just say we are all wondering what will happen next. It seems that our long car rides may have to include many more hours of listening to finish the story. I guess we are all hoping that Andrew wont mind joining in our enthusiasm and love for Adventures in Odyssey.

Anyway, you are all probably thinking we are either crazy right now or pretty cool ( As long as our campers think we are cool ) Yup so that has been our day so far. The long weekend is nearly here and we are so excited for both resting and being able to do a little shopping (we have a few last min. purchases like bug spray and hand sanitizer). It should be a fun time!

Only 7 days till we are on the road :)

Where Art Thou Andrew

As most of you know, these past few weeks our team of four has only had three members in the country. Our fourth member Andrew has been serving in the Philippines and will be wrapping up his month there shortly.  Here in Canada we anxiously await his arrival as our team is quickly seeing camp approach (we are doing maintenance at PRBI currently and head out to our first camp next Friday). We are excited for the new team dynamic that will be in place when he joins us and we can’t wait to hear stories.  

Anyways, I asked Andrew to provide an update about his trip so that we could share his experiences with all of you. Andrew excitedly shared with me some of the opportunities that the Philippines team has had. As I caused him to reflect on the past few weeks he could not help but exclaimed “Oh boy. A lot has happened!” Indeed they have been up to a lot, including ministries in Muslim communities, involvement in medical procedures (such as tooth cleaning, health checkups, and circumcisions), building houses in the flood affected areas, working at camps (apparently “Big Booty is a favorite game of the kids) , and Andrew has even had the chance to preach. God has been using the team in many ways to make an enormous impact on people for Christ. Currently the team is at a camp where they have a unique opportunity to have fun and share the gospel.

We are so excited about the opportunities that God has given Andrew to share His love in the Philippines. Please continue to pray for him as they wrap up their time. Also much prayer will be appreciated as Andrew will be required to jump right into camp ministry in Canada. No doubt he will be jet legged and exhausted. I am sure he will appreciate the extra support in prayer. Thanks

Heather

Finally it is our PR Team video! Check it out…

Hello from PRBI,

So today included books, vacuum cleaners, mud, training and powertools. All in all, a nice mix I would say. We started to get the dorm rooms on third floor ready for painting, which included mudding over a lot of pinholes. After lunch we had our first training session. And then Hunter gave us earplugs and powertools. We are prepping some craft supplies that we may need this summer and this required a saw and a drill.

Our arms are tired but today has proved to be quite an adventure. We found dozens of bobbypins in the corners of the rooms of the dorm as well as leaves and dust and pencils and old gum and batteries and papers and pictures. I think there was even a broken ipod too. This afternoon we discovered a mama cat and a couple of kittens. So cute, but very shy so we let them be.

Yardsaling on Saturday proved to be successful for us all and so did taking a walk on post-yardsale day. We found a couch sitting on the sidewalk with a sign that said "Take me, I'm free". So we found some help and brought it back to PRBI. Thanks to Brad and Mike for carrying it up the stairs for us.

Stay tuned for some pictures and also a video starring, guess who?? THE CAMP TEAM!! (that would be us for all of you who don't know).

Also, remember its not too late to be a part of our ministry. If you are interested in praying for us, keep watching our blog to see our requests. If you are interested in supporting us financially, leave a comment and we will contact you with how to give.

For Kimmie, Heather and Andrew,
Kendra :)

Hey Everyone,

Sorry about no posts recently. All is well here at PRBI. Kimmie has rejoined Heather and I from her tour with the Declare team (a youth ministry team from PRBI). It sounds like she had an awesome time. This last week has been busy for all three of us. Kimmie and Heather have been painting, raking leaves, scraping and mudding walls in the girl's dorm and helping Wanda in the library. I have been filling in at the reception desk while the staff had Team days. While there, I became a letter folding pro and folded somewhere around 3000 letters!

Andrew is in the middle of his time in the Philippines and it sounds as though they are busy with various projects there. The latest post on Facebook says something about a buidling project. Please pray for that team's time there.

Also, please continue to pray for us as we head into training and planning more intensively soon. Our first camp is quickly approaching. We head to Blue Bronna Wilderness Camp to help out with a weekend camp starting on May 25th. Please also pray that our financial support would come through. Praise the Lord for how He has already begun to raise up supporters.

Well, tomorrow is yard sale day in Sexsmith which requires an earlier start. The three of us are headed out to hopefully find some odds and ends to finish our summer apartments. So for now I bid you farewell and good night. Have a wonderful weekend!

God Bless,
Kendra :)