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Camp Staff, Events, Summer Camp

Qwanoes is coming to Vancouver!

Just a few days ago the Qwanoes year-round staff headed to a Parksville hotel for our annual staff retreat. We sure started the retreat in Qwanoes style! We broke up into teams, made our team mascots, came up with a team name/chant, and we were off and running. We quickly turned the conference room into a battle zone with tables, boxes, balloons, and a whole lot of nerf guns!

There were nerf bullets flying everywhere, staff dodging, and shooting to protect our kingdom from other kingdoms…. yes, I know what you are thinking… and yes we are just like campers… sometimes :). When we weren’t competing in our own style of All Star Games, we were slowing down and taking time to reflect on all that God is doing in our lives personally and at Qwanoes. We took time together, to pray and look forward to all that God has in store for our new theme “Live It Up!” It was an awesome weekend to be together as a full-time staff team.

Cowichan Valley Youth Night is happening at Qwanoes tonight! It’s going to be one fun-filled night with lots of youth from around the Cowichan Valley. We have a night game planned, Quixotic will be playing along with a band of students from our Kaléo program, a message by Andrew Macdonald, and of course  Mug-Up! This is the third year we have been partnering with Cowichan Valley youth groups to put this on, and it is always a great night. The theme for the night is “ONE” – one valley, one night, one God. Looking forward to it!

 

 

 

 

Missions Fest Vancouver is coming up fast and we will have a Qwanoes booth set up once again! We really hope you stop by to say hello. We will have our new video/slideshow playing with the “Live It Up” theme song! We also have another video just out today with a brand new song for summer 2012. Be sure to stop by!

Have you received your SUMMER 2012 brochure yet!? They have all been mailed out, maybe your picture is in it or one of your friends! If you haven’t received your free brochure or you want more, it’s quick and easy to order them online and we will send them to you right away!

The new 2012 brochures are ready! Maybe your picture is in it?

 

Camp Staff, Summer Camp

Happy New Year!

A New Year is upon us! And that means a new summer theme is ready to launch!

January 3rd at 9:00 am is a very significant time and date around here at Qwanoes. That’s when registration begins and we’ll be standing by on our computers,  phones, fax machine and in person to hear from you! We can’t wait to have many campers register for a week at camp for what could be our greatest summer ever! (By the way, it only takes a $150 deposit to reserve your spot.) For more registration info please go to our website.

Smoke, lights, party hats, music and fireworks! It's hard to capture it all in one picture!

What a great weekend we just had celebrating the New Year with many of our summer 2011 staff team. I think the best word to describe this very special weekend is “appreciation.” Our summer staff are so important to us here at Qwanoes and we want them to know how much we and all our campers love them! There is something special about bringing in the New Year together in such a meaningful way. We pulled out all the stops and enjoyed a great speaker (Sid Koop) who helped us look back at our year and challenged us to look ahead to 2012. We had late mornings and late nights all weekend long!

During the mornings we turned the dining hall into a special Qwanoes restaurant where our summer staff were waited on by year-round staff. It was quite a menu! Fom french toast to waffles and mountains of whip-cream and eggs anyway they chose! We even had special room service in the morning! We love spoiling our summer staff and they are such a huge part of Qwanoes. It seemed like there was always food available…like special mug-ups including chicken wings and nachos and snack food at the back of Club Coco. Hot tub, SkyScraper, games, free long-distance phone calls to friends around the world, Quioxtic, a full evening banquet with an awesome slide show looking back at summer 2011 and all that God has done. Thank you summer staff 2011 for a great year and weekend!

Another big part of the weekend was the sneak preview of SUMMER 2012. You could just feel the anticipation in the room as everyone was on the edge of their seat waiting for the big announcement of what the theme would be! There we were on Saturday afternoon just moments away from hearing the new theme song and the announcement from Scott Bayley, Qwanoes Executive Director. Then it happened, the theme song started playing and everyone listened intently for any clues to what it could be! Come back January 3rd for the official launch to summer 2012 and discover the theme for yourself!

We hope to see you this summer! There was so much excitement in the room when the new 2012 announcements kept going and going with brochures, tattoos, buttons, posters, displays, banners, theme song, T-shirts and MORE! Come back on January 3rd to see more pictures of the sneak preview that took place at our staff retreat.

The NEW 2012 brochures are in and will be mailed to your house soon!

 

 

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