SEP Eastern Canada

SEP Eastern Canada:
bilingual camp

By Dennis Lawrence

VENDEE, Quebec, Canada—Less than two hours northwest of Montreal, nestled in the gentle Laurentian Mountains, and beside beautiful Lac Windigo (Spirit Lake), lies the village of Vendee, which has been the home for our Eastern Canadian youth camp for many years.

In this final year at this location, we’re planning a special camp for 2005, before we move to another location for 2006.

Our camp is bilingual, with En-glish and French as languages of the camp, worship, education and activities. Camp becomes a workshop for you if you want to broaden your language skills. Do you want to see how two “nations” can work and live side-by-side? Camp is a pattern for what, we believe, God wants for all humanity, and you can be part of it.

Our camp accommodates 80 campers for 10 days (July 16 to 25), for $275 (Canadian). For this, besides the friendships you can gain and enhance, you’ll have tennis, volleyball, soccer, baseball, dance, canoeing and waterskiing, as the main activities of the day.

Our camp seeks to build each camper’s relationship with their God and Savior. Campers will participate in daily worship services, as well as Christian education.

Our goal is to not only help someone come to Christ, but to begin a personal walk as a disciple. The planning team wants campers to become forces for God’s kingdom work in their own churches and communities.

Youths need opinion leaders, and we help campers understand how to be one and suggest ways and venues for standing out as one.

We will provide leadership and camp ministry training for our older campers. Our hope is that some will decide to not only have Christ in their lives, but will recognize a call to ministry, too. We will articulate the reality of how special it is to be involved in ministry. For the past two camps, we have had a special time with this group of campers and will be enhancing this for Camp 2005.

Campers have come from far and wide over the past few years. We have campers from many areas of Canada, including all provinces of Eastern Canada. We have campers from the American Northeast, as well, and even have had campers from as far away as California. Flying into Montreal can be affordable, and we will work with parents to arrange for camper pickup, and transportation to and from camp.

Why not think about a nearby, but international camp for 2005? You can get an idea of last year’s camp at www.wcg.org/youth/camp vendee. For more information contact Dennis Lawrence at dennis.lawrence@videotron.ca, Lynn Lawrence at lynnegbert@yahoo.com or call them at 1-514-425-5371.

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