For those of you who don't know what Nikki and I have been up to for the last six months I want to give you a little background into who we are working with. SCA International started as a mission called Shantymen’s Christian Association by William Henderson in 1907. Our purpose is to glorify God by proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of North America whose circumstances do not provide them easy or traditional access to the Church for any number of reasons, including social, emotional, physical and cultural isolation. Eagle Bay was added as a ministry center in 1962, then called Hilbre Bible Camp, and has been carrying on God’s work ever since. Eagle Bay has a wonderful legacy of reaching children for Christ, and being a safe haven for kids in trouble.
Eagle Bay’s core purpose is to give every person who comes to this facility a chance to meet Jesus Christ. We accomplish this by serving. We serve children with our summer and winter camps, and now with our youth outreach every other Friday. We serve adults with our guest and retreat services. We strive to serve the community by bringing groups from the city to the area, and hopefully as the years go on we will bring more and more people here. I want Eagle Bay to be a safe place that lets those who come feel like they belong to something bigger than their normal experience. We believe in building lasting relationships between our staff and the campers that come to camp, and we know that those relationships will mean more than any other thing in a child’s life.
The last two weeks we have hosted two different fundraising dinners for the camp. On November 8th we held a local dinner in Moosehorn. A great success with over one-hundred people attending. Chad and I prepared and served a nice meal with the help of some of our local youth. Over twenty local businesses donated items for a silent auction and the Solberg's, a local couple, donated honey to sell to the attendees. God provided quite a bit of money to cover many costs at camp. Our second dinner in Winnipeg was much smaller in numbers, but God provided in a huge way. The two couples that we hosted committed to finishing the bathroom that has stood unfinished for over eighteen months. Praise God!!!