Spring Work Week 2014

Every Spring we hold a Spring work week to help us in completing some maintenance and repair as well as property clean up from the Winter. This year we were unable to do any yard work, as the yard is still much buried in snow. It is finally clearing, so we will begin with the leaf and windfall clean-up over the next few weeks.

It was so wonderful to have our friends from Victory Baptist Church, Newmarket, Ontario with us this past week; we had a wonderful week of fellowship and labour together as final renovations to the speakers cabin were done as well as finishing touches in the bookshop and a new tile floor in the staff washrooms.

One of the most vital ministries that people share with us in is practical hands on work here at the property. Without these faithful servants of the Lord we would not be able to maintain our physical property.

 Daphne was always helping everywhere, doing the dishes was a huge help in the kitchen.

Martin worked hard at completing the mudding.

Roger kindly loaned us his tile saw so we could lay tile in the staff bathrooms.
 

It was great to get to know George & Barb this year - they did some great work in our staff washrooms.

The team from Victory also did some finishing touches on the painting in the bookshop.

 Paul doing drywall prep.

We'd love to adopt these lovely folks!! What a blessing it was to have them with us this week.

The Speakers Cabin renovation has been a project undertaken by our friends at Victory Baptist Church Newmarket, Ontario for two years now. It is wonderful to see it come to completion. Although the "after" picture is beautiful - it does not do justice to the amount of work the team did to achieve it. After the demo, the building was completely re-insulated and plumbed; a wall was moved and a new window and door installed, new flooring was lay and the walls all freshly painted! It has been a huge blessing to get to know and work alongside these hard working folks!

a course or two...

Last week Liz was off to Fredericton to take a Food Handling and Safety course, this is a necessary certification for her to have. I will also have the course (hopefully in June), but prior to that, Kevin Strout and I will be taking the First Aid course with St. John's Ambulance. This primarily so that we are trained for the Cape Breton camp out; although we are excited that we will have an RN joining us that week for staff.

Things are beginning to come together for summer - we have a few decisions to make in the next few weeks about staffing etc., but we're always glad to hear from new groups who are interested in coming out.

We are still hoping to receive some registrations for the ANBC Men's Retreat; without a minimum of 12 - 15 pre-registrations we will not be able to move ahead with the event. So if you are planning to join us, please drop us a line.



This week we are hosting a team of servant hearted folks from Victory Baptist Church in Newmarket, Ontario. They have come to do some major finishing work on one of our guest cottages as well as some other important maintenance projects. Stay tuned here for pictures and a full update at the end of the week.