keeping us clean

This past Sunday, Liz and I had the pleasure to be with the folks at Parkside Baptist Church in Moncton, NB. The Lois Winters Missionary Group spearheaded the collection of cleaning supplies for Arrowhead's summer camps! What a tremendous blessing to have our van filled with these items as we left! Thank you so much for your kind and faithful gifts.

This week we have begun to build our summer programs. We are making some exciting changes to our summer camp programs and are looking forward to see how the Lord will use these them. Please continue to pray as this is a very busy time of year for us. The Lord always provides in amazing ways that leave us in awe of His Sovereign Grace!

a faithful ministry team

Last night we had the privilege of being at the monthly meeting of the Jacksontown Baptist Church, Women's Missionary Society. We shared an update of the ministries here at Arrowhead and enjoyed some wonderful fellowship with our friends the VanAsperens and the W.M.S. ladies.
 

These kind ladies collected breakfast grocery items for our summer camps! Such a wonderful way to share with us in ministry.

mawio'mi: the gathering 2013

This was our 3rd annual men's retreat at Arrowhead, and it was an immense blessing. The fellowship and preaching of the Gospel was both an encouragement and challenge. Church planter and pastor, Dave Storey from Doaktown, NB, opened God's Word with us in several sessions over the course of the weekend. We were challenged to strive for the Holiness that God demands, and we were challenged to examine ourselves and know if we are in the Faith. The Gospel was clear and practical and a true blessing.

As is always the case, we had a blast playing our man-games as well. This year's theme was a Lumberjack Chili Cook-off, and it was a lot of fun - I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

We played numerous lumberjack games, the Caber Toss was one such competition.

The onlookers!

Pastor Dave Storey bringing a challenge from God's Word.

Some of the men in the field of battle.

Carroll Hill showed us how it's to be done... in many of the competitions! he was a tough competitor.

And of course, the chili cook-off. We broke into teams and assembled our masterpieces!

Spring Work Week 2013

It was a fantastic week and MUCH was accomplished. We were joined by groups from Cumberland Bay Baptist and Little Southwest Baptist on Saturday bringing our numbers to 52 strong! What a blessing and encouragement to serve alongside all of these folks.

A happy group of people who joined us in ministry during our 2013 Spring Work Week.

There were a lot of projects underway, but our most dramatic change was in the tuck shop renovation by our team from Peterborough Free Methodist Church. Check out these before and after pictures.

There was also dramatic progress in the speakers cabin. We were held back by the discovery of squirrel nests (and a couple of hornets nests) in the walls... but, thanks to the team from Victory Baptist, we now have a healthy building to move ahead with.

as the crowds gather

Another full day here at ANBC... if you're not with us, you're missing out on some great fellowship and ministry together.

We were joined by our friends Rob & Irene VanAsperen from Jacksontown Baptist Church; Kyle Hughes from Providence Christian Church and the first wave of volunteers from Peterborough Free Methodist Church arrived by plane (the remainder of the team will arrive by van tomorrow morning).

The Speakers Cabin renovation is taking shape with lots of exciting changes, the Waban-Aki Book & Soda Shop is all ready for the Peterborough team to tackle and the yard clean-up has begun!

Speakers Cabin Renovation: Paul and John framing out the new bathroom door.

Zach built a new coat rack for the apartment.

Todd has been working on the bell for the "coupla"!

Speakers Cabin Renovation: Dave and Brian got quite a bit of the drywall up today.

Speakers Cabin Renovation: Cindy, Dave and Brian getting the new insulation underway.

Kevin & Zach took advantage of the rainy day and burned the burn pile.

Speakers Cabin Renovation: Todd Hill helped out with some wiring issues in this cabin.

The mobile office...

Thumbs up Paul!

Brooke & Justus (and Zach) have been our dish crew for this week! We certainly appreciate their help!

Barb Heal and Lorrayne Breen helping to prepare to feed all the hard working folks.

 Rob is going to build us some new games for the summer and repair some of our old games.

Work Week 2013... demo day!

Today was another fantastic day at ANBC. Our friends from Victory Baptist church were joined by a new friend from Devon Park Baptist Church here in Fredericton; Brian has been helping with the Speakers Cabin renovation.

Todd Hill joined us today to wire the tuck shop for that renovation and Todd Nielsen began work on the "coupla", a belfry to house our big brass camp bell!

We were joined tonight by NCEM General Director Albert Heal and his wife Barb as well as Len & Lorrayne Breen our Eastern Field Directors! The lodge is beginning to fill up! It's always exciting at ANBC during work week!

Cindy & Julie getting ready to tackle the speakers cabin!

Todd Nielsen is building us a belfry for our big brass camp bell!

The "coupla" is going to be pretty snazzy!

Our speakers cabin will be a housekeeping unit, Paul and Dave were busy with demo today.

Inside, outside!

 After beginning to work in the speakers cabin it became evident that there had been rodents living in the wall at some point in the past. So the renovation became much more comprehensive... but it's going to look amazing when they're all done.

Resident electrical wizard... Todd Hill!

Zack working on getting the big brass bell all shined up!

 Eve & Liz making the magic happen in the kitchen... keeping everyone all fed up!

So happy to have Brian join us from Devon Park Baptist.

We're certainly putting the ANBC truck through it's paces this week!

Live in Concert

 

This past Saturday we were blessed and encouraged to be at Cumberland Bay Baptist for the Nielsen Family 5 Live Concert. They shared an update about their candidacy with NCEM and ministered in song. It was wonderful to share in their enthusiasm as they prepare to go to mission training next fall.

This family is an IMMENSE talent, and they use their talent to glorify God! Maybe you'll have an opportunity to invite them to your church for an evening of ministry! This is a video Todd put together to share this opportunity for ministry.