Bird River Bible Blog

Camp starts….really soon!!!! And boy howdy, are we excited! It’s going to be a great season, as we seek to lead camper’s in finding the True Treasure, that is, Jesus Christ! Don’t think we won’t have some actual treasure hunts with a map and shovel though! What Treasure Quest would be complete without one of those?!
June has brought with it some exciting changes:
*The head counselors and head of maintenance moved out here in June and have been busy prepping the camp and the program for summer.
*In mid-June, God provided us with the head cook we’ve been praying for since October!
*Last weekend we had a road rally, that saw 19 participants drive up to the camp in sunshine and warmth for lunch…and arrive back in Winnipeg for supper, in a very wet downpour of rain! Nonetheless, everyone was in high spirits and the riders were successful in their fundraising efforts! Thank you to those who gave and to all our riders!
*Last week also saw a house arrive on site. Thank you to the generous couple from Grand Beach who donated their house! Dan and Ronnie will now be able to enjoy more space and more privacy in their new house across from the maintenance yard.
*Staff training starts in less than a week, and the camp season and CIT program start in a week and a half! We still need a handful more guy counselors, CIT’s, and nurses. If you’re interested in helping out, give me a shout via our website! We still have plenty of space for more campers! It’s not too late to sign up! If you need financial assistance, let us know, or connect with us through the Family Life Centre. They still have camper sponsorships available if you’re interested!
Have a great summer! And we hope to see you onsite sometime in July or August!

Who’s going to the Red River Ex this weekend? To tell you the truth, I’ve been here for 4 Junes and I’ve never been. I probably won’t go this year either, because, to be honest, most people would go to the Ex for the rides, right? You see, I’m not much of a ride person. In Vancouver they have what’s called Playland. It’s a big amusement park that’s open from May-September and I remember in high school I used to love going there on a Saturday with friends. My favorite ride was the big ol’ rickety roller coaster and the roller coaster they called Wild Mouse. One day we went with my Physics class (that’s right, we went for a physics assignment!) and I decided to try out the Pirate Ship and then the Corkscrew roller coaster….and I got very sick. I couldn’t go on anymore rides that day, and then…I couldn’t ever really go on rides ever again. At least not without feeling quite sick. So now, if I go to the fair and have to endure any activities, it’s usually something like the maze or the funhouse. Have you ever been in the funhouse, and been to the part where they have all those different mirrors that distort your image? That’s always a fun time. I enjoy it anyway. Before there was the technology to make mirrors like we have now, that reflect back an almost perfect image, regular household mirrors were more like funhouse mirrors. They would have been cloudy and shown a very basic reflection.

I think in one of these past blogs I’ve talked about how God’s so huge, it’s hard to imagine what he actually for real is like, because God is so beyond any human imagination. Well that’s kind of like God’s plan for us too. Right now, we might be looking at our life and it’s not really clear to us what God is doing. It’s like looking into a funhouse mirror, and the image is distorted. We can’t see the whole plan for our life, but only a little bit at a time. But when we look back at our life in the end, it’s going to make sense, and we’ll be able to see that God was there with us, loving us this whole time and caring for us. There’s a couple of verses found in 1 Corinthians 13, in the Bible, that remind us of this fact.

“Now we see a dim reflection, as if we were looking into a mirror, but then we shall see clearly. Now I know only a part, but then I will know fully, as God has known me. So these three things continue forever: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:12-13.

These verses tell us that someday, we will be able to see fully what God has been doing in our lives and they remind us that God knows us! Things will change constantly in our lives but the constant is faith, hope, and love. And these are all found in God!