American Camping Association

Dave first showed this to me a few years ago, and over the past couple of days I have been giving this website some more thought and so now I publish this for the masses. Anyone that has any interest in camp ministry should give the ACC message board a look. It's a secular message board that is so chalked full of camp ideas and wisdom it gives me shivers just thinking about it. I couldn't find anything that even comes close to compare with this message board on the Canadian Camping Association website or the Christian Camping International (usa) website.

Camps right around the corner for me, and so this is naturally why the message board topic comes up. Even though I very infrequently post to this blog, it will become even less of a occasion during the next couple of months as I am busy at PVBC.

Homeless for five months.

Stan Guthrie interviews Mike Yankoski, author of Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America . Mike felt God calling him to become homeless for five months. Leaving his life as he knew it, he came to some intense realizations by seeing the church from the outside. (Interview Part 1, Part 2) I found this article really fascinating as I often pass the homeless on the streets of Winnipeg and wonder what it would be like to switch places with them.

The Great Promise of Christian Camping

The Mb Herald published an inspiring article disucssing the importance of Christian Camping by John Redekop. Redekop definitly has his head screwed on straight, seeing as this is just one of a couple other thought provoking articles done by him.

Anyone serving this summer at a camp, should give this camping article a read. Christian Camping has been a big part of my life and I really hope that the church will continue to see the value of it.

blogVision - The Rules

The reason that I started this blog was so that I could have a place where I could upload photos of my adventures and write updates of what's been going on. Don't get any ideas...this is not going to be a place where you get to hear of my day to day activities everyday. Although I'm sure that you're just dying to become a Steve'sblogfaithful, I would recommend maybe a once a week check of the blogging world of Steve.

Mostly when I feel that I am doing something blog worthy will I post stuff. Right now for instance I am kind of in a transition period from being at University to going to work at the Pembina Valley Bible Camp. This transition period is kind of boring for others to read about, so don't expect a post for another few weeks or so.

The biggest reason for this blog is a place to post photos. I much prefer to post photo's then write a freakin' term paper.

In the past I have found myself getting on the nerves of other bloggers asking them why they didn't post like every hour of the day. You can feel free to ask me about about this blog...but to a certain extent.

In the beginning ...

Here we are, the starting of a new blog. It seems to be the job of the blogadmin to write a first post that really doesn't say much at all. I could write about my goals for this blog or some profound truth that I learnt today. I could write about what I'm wearing or what I had for lunch. I could ramble on and on.

The first post is always the most awkward; nothing to say... I think I'll stop ...