Saturday, March 31, 2018

So long to an old friend

The time finally arrived for us to need to say so long to our faithful old Pontiac Montana. It had been given to us as a gift and has served us very well for almost 5 years without incident. Unfortunately the harsh NB roads finally made it a liability for repair.


In very short order a Ford Flex became available for a price that was sufficient for us. Although it is still 9 years old, it has a reasonable amount of miles on it and is in fairly good repair. We did have some unexpected work to put into the vehicle - but such is the nature of buying used. We are very thankful to have this new vehicle and hope that it will serve us for another 5 years.


Saturday, March 10, 2018

Marcus & Kameron Cook


It is with great pleasure and much excitement that we are able to announce that Marcus & Kameron Cook have recently been accepted as candidate missionaries for Northern Canada Evangelical Mission (NCEM). They will be working directly with us here at Arrowhead Native Bible Center (ANBC).

It is their hope is to help Arrowhead expand as a Bible Center. Their plan is to be a part of the maintenance and upkeep of the property as well as working in the bookstore and social media aspects of ANBC to establish these new areas of ministry. Their passion and long term goal is to start up discipleship programs at the Center for Aboriginal believers. They are especially excited to be living and working more closely with the youth that they already have relationships with. They have been excited to see the ways God has been opening doors for them to be part of His Kingdom work among the First Nations People of Canada. Officially, their title will be "Facilities Manager and Outreach".

They hope to move to New Brunswick by the end of this year and are currently looking at housing options, developing a support team, finishing off their current ministries well, and taking Bible school classes to better prepare themselves for ministry. They are also expecting a baby near the end of April.

Please join us in praying for the needs the Cooks have as they prepare to come. We would love for them to be able to live on site with us, but that would require us to have a place for them to live in permanently and the funds to establish it.

First Ever Winter Staff Retreat

Well we did it. We held our first ever winter staff retreat. Our purpose was team building. I was pleased with our turnout and with the overall event. We had a lot of fun and looked at a couple of important aspects of camp. And certainly I furnished everyone with shiny new staff application forms before they left! We even made a ridiculous video - you can watch it below.

Had a good group out, had a good time. 

We did a workshop on Saturday afternoon to develop actions for some of our camp songs. 

Everybody took a turn in the dish pit. 

There was, of course, a snowball fight.  

It was a pleasure to have Marsha Boyd-Mitchel from the Christian Action Federation with us to speak to our teens about healthy God honouring relationships.
What Not To Do During Liftoff from Arrowhead Native Bible Center on Vimeo.

Tweakage 9

My friend Andrew Henderson is the director of Windcrest Bible Camp here in NB. He has ben asking me for a number of years to join him and travel to the Tweakage conference in the US. This year it worked out that I was able to go, and am I ever glad that I did. Kyle and I enjoyed a great time of fellowship with Andy on the road trip - that alone was an excellent part of the conference experience.

Tweakage itself is, without question, the best camp conference I've had the opportunity to take part in. There were 250 people representing over 50 camps from 4 countries in attendance. The conference took place at  High Point Camp near Reading, Pennsylvania. There were seminars covering many of the important aspects of camp ministry. Covering policies, maintenance, program, fun, discipleship, church submission and family; the conference offered sound input from people on the ground. I valued the conversations I was able to engage in and the free sharing of ideas and resources. The benefit to Arrowhead and to me personally is immeasurable. I hope to be able to attend this conference for years to come. And look out for some groovy new ideas that we brought home from Tweakage.

Had an exciting drive down, 16 hours one way, accidentally stuck to the i95, got to see NYC. 

had to hit up Cracker Barrel 

And of course, if you're near the worlds largest Cabela's you check it out. Pretty amazing statue out front.  

High Point Camp has an amazing coffee shop. 

High Point Camp has a beautiful property.  

Enjoyed the messages shared.  

Anyone who can weld, we'd love to have an arm wrestling table just like this. This one was fabricated from an old bed frame.