I don’t know about you, but it still feels like summer here at Qwanoes with all the nice weather we have been having! Although, without all our campers here enjoying tuck, going to Q-Town, playing All Star Games and having fun on all the activities it quickly hits me we are definitely in a different season.

Right now at Qwanoes we have a lot of things going on even though it’s not summer!

Trinity Western University was just here with all their student leaders for a great retreat! They had their main sessions in Q-Town, we ate out on the Sky-Deck, it was a great time to come together as a group, have fun and prepare for the journey ahead as leaders in their school.

Our college program Kaleo is well underway!  Kaleo is a partnership between Qwanoes and Briercrest College & Seminary. The program is filled with outdoor adventures, high level academics, opportunities to serve locally here at a church and right here at camp! The students arrived in the middle of September from near and far! It’s great to have such a mix of students from right here on the Island and all the way out to Ontario.

The first out-trip of the school year was a backpack trip to Mt. Albert-Edward on the Island in Strathcona Provincial Park. Most of the students had never been on a backpack trip before, so it was a new adventure for a lot of them. We did many things on the trip from feeding birds right out of our hands, making dinner in the backcountry, learning to serve one another, to sliding down a snow field on the side of a mountain! It was a great time of bonding and spending time with God in His creation. The students are just finishing up on their last week of classes with the first class of the year being “Spiritual Formations.” The word is that the students are loving the class! Part of the course had to do with memorization, and they memorized a ton of verses! So next time you see a Kaleo student ask them all about it! Next week is a trip on a huge sail boat all together! Stay tuned for more stories of the journey of a Kaleo student.

It’s Qwanoes Road Tour week! We were just at Saanich baptist church in Victoria and this is what Scott Bayley our Executive Director had to say about the experience, “It was awesome to see so many of our campers again – and to connect with so many churches from the Victoria area. ‘CRAVE’ is the name of the youth group at Saanich Baptist – and they allowed us to kind of take over their normal Wednesday night program. What a night it was!”

On Friday night we will be on the mainland at Immanuel Fellowship in Abbotsford and then we pack everything up and make our way all the way to Parksville back on the Island at Parksville Baptist church! You won’t want to miss this Road Tour! We hope to see you there. Check out all the details below.