This week has been family camp at Beulah Wesleyan Campgrounds in Brown's Flat, New Brunswick. Dave and I have been driving back and forth from Camp each day so that we can be a part of it as much as possible. This week at camp the speaker was Dr. Bud Bence (IWU) and Jay Guptill (former worship pastor at College Church) lead the worship...we may not of known many of the people at camp, but we thought it was cool that we did know the special speaker and worship leader. Beulah has beautiful campgrounds filled with over 300 cottages. A lot of people end up retiring and living right on the camp grounds. There is a river that runs right by the campgrounds...plus the camp owns an island near by...that's where youth and kids camps are held through out the summer. Sunday afternoon there was a baptism service and there was quite a few from Kings Valley that were baptized. Monday, we brought up some of our teens from Kings Valley to be at camp for the day. We spent most the day at the camps beach, and wharf...Swimming and playing circle volleyball. Then we all ate dinner together and went to the service. Monday night after the service, Kings Valley had their annual fundraiser "On the Boulevard". We had heaps of tents set up and we sold, cotton candy, popcorn, beaver tails (elephant ears), hotdogs, hamburgers, curly fries, and heaps more!! It was a lot of fun, Dave and I headed up the popcorn tent. Wednesday night we got an opportunity to stay at our Sr. Pastors cottage for the night and Thursday was Church Conference. Camp is still going on until Sunday, we aren't sure if we will make it up or not for one more service. Over all we had a great time at camp. It reminded me of my days growing up and going to camp each year at Whispering Pines Wesleyan Camp in the North Michigan District. God did a lot of amazing things in my life through that camp and I have many great memories there. Dave also has a "home" camp where he grew up...Silver Lake Wesleyan Camp. Dave's parents have a cottage there...and there were a few people from Beulah that use to go to Silver Lake and told us stories of how Dave use to gather frogs and sell them to people at camp. Fun times...well here is a few pictures from this weeks camp at Beulah.
This is Beulah's Tabernacle. It seats about 1300 people!
Here is a picture from Wednesday nights service.
This is us with Brent and Melanie Ingersoll. Brent is also new on staff. They both grew up going to Beulah, and their family's have a cottage and boat up at the camp. Here's a picture of Brent and Melanie giving us a tour of the river at camp.
This is Dave and Harley (student in our youth group) at the wharf. This is often more popular then the beach...you can dive right in!
JUMP!
Instead of eating at the dining hall...we walked with the teens down the road to the Irving for some deli sandwiches and ice cream, YUM:)
2 comments:
It's great how camp has meant so much to three or four generations.Dad has memories at Cadillac Camp. I was saved at Fairmont Camp and my grand parents even went there,too. God still uses camp services and I hope they continue until He comes.
You guys fit right into your new church and environment!! It's great to see your pictures and hear your stories, because I know you are already doing a great job up there!
Love you,
Christin
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