On Friday night around 8:00 pm our first Juniors Retreat Campers started to arrive from all over Vancouver Island, soon after our campers from the mainland invaded Qwanoes too! You should have seen it! The spotlight was shining, smiles were flashing and the music was pumping! It was a pretty exciting weekend to be at Qwanoes.

The first night was filled with Q-Town music, games led by Stevie-G and crew, and a great talk from our speaker Jonny Mo who started us off with the weekend theme of “Anything is possible.” I remember being at the back of Club Coco with Grandma and Grandpa and thinking to myself “it is so good to have campers back here at Qwanoes!” and I’m pretty sure everyone was feeling the same way!

On Saturday afternoon everyone was outside enjoying the sunny weather! As we looked around it was hard to tell whether it was a Spring Retreat or a Summer Camp! Campers in shorts and t-shirts and all activities were in full-throttle as you can see from the picture of the stake park. What a great weekend of friends, fun and learning how anything is possible with God!

Yes – spring is here so that means that summer is just around the corner! I invite you to sign-up for a week of kid’s summer camp on Vancouver Island today!

Yesterday we hosted our Qwanoes Seniors Luncheon in the afternoon! Many of our guests were at Qwanoes from the very beginning. We love hearing their stories of when Qwanoes all began…during the times when the kitchen and dining room was out at Huckleberry Hideout! And when there were no bathrooms at all, just outhouses! As we look at summer 2010 coming up very soon, it does look a little bit different, but the great thing is that the reason why Qwanoes started remains the same! We love kids!

Special Announcements and important dates!
Kaléo Grad coming up on April 17th
Advance Crew for Summer Staff – starts April 28
Women’s Retreat – April 30 to May 2

Ladies, has something been stirring in you lately?

Perhaps you are sensing you need some time to step back from the rush of life and just slow down. The Qwanoes Women’s Retreat is a perfect time to do just that.

Maybe you are sensing you need to dive into some deep fellowship with other women, a time of reflection, a time of spiritual renewal, or maybe it’s a time where you can just kick back and have fun with some other women, no cooking, no cleaning, just focused time on you. The Qwanoes Women’s retreat is the perfect location to do just that too!

Fabulous Speaker: Grace Fox

Grace Fox is an international author and speaker described as “deep, daring, and devoted.” She’s written hundreds of magazine articles and four books including the 10–Minute Time Out devotional series and Moving From…read more
We are very excited to be able to welcome Grace back to Qwanoes.

Welcome to the women’s retreat and prepare for a life–changing weekend together!

Special Announcements!

Bikes For Sale! Our 2009 Rocky Mountain Bikes that were only used for 10 weeks last summer are on sale for an amazing price! Don’t miss out on this fabulous last minute deal! Good timing for the great summer weather! Contact Qwanoes for more info.

Juniors Spring Retreat (March 26-28) for campers ages 9 to 11

Camp Qwanoes is officially on Facebook! Last week we launched an official Camp Qwanoes fan page. This is another great way to stay connected to what is happening and stay plugged in.

This fan page is for all fans of Camp Qwanoes, so whether you are a camper, parent, summer staff or just someone who loves Qwanoes this fan page is for you! Postings will be happening on a regular basis as well as upcoming events, pictures and videos. Feel free to leave a comment or story for all fans to see!

Here is a story from a 13-year-old camper we received by e-mail recently:

“Hello! I just wanted to tell all the staff at Camp Qwanoes what an amazing camp it is. I had one of the best times of my life there! It was just so wonderful to know that there will always be a place to remember that was so amazing!

I can’t describe how much Qwanoes means to me… Thank you so much for opening up a new world for me, I will never forget it!!! And I look forward to seeing you this summer!!!!!”

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Camp Qwanoes Fan Page

Where were you when Team Canada won gold!? What a great game and what a fantastic two weeks of Winter Olympics! We had a lot of fun at camp over the Winter Olympics… we had a medal chart set up in the main office to track how Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, and the USA were doing. Our staffing team is all from Great Britain so they were very excited when they got their one gold medal. And could you believe that goal by Crosby in overtime? That was AMAZING!

Juniors Retreat is coming up fast! During the Olympics we saw a lot of athletes realize that anything is possible as many, many athletes won medals from all over the world. That’s exactly what we will be experiencing at the Spring Juniors Retreat in just 4 weeks! “Stevie-G” has a lot of fun games in store for you, Q-Town will be rocking once again and of course there will be plenty of friends & food as well as a great speaker to challenge you! Don’t forget to share the Juniors Retreat with a friend, they will love you for it!

Qwanoes goes back to school? That’s right – we will be at three schools this week showing the 2010 slideshow. Will we see you? If you are at Richmond Christian Middle School, Cornerstone in Abbotsford, or Delta Christian, the answer is YES! Not only do you get some time out of class you get to warm up with some great pictures and Q-Town music from Qwanoes!

Hope to see you soon at school or at the Juniors Retreat!