Big Horn

Besides Nordegg our closest neighbours is the Big Horn reserve that is about 15 minutes west from us. We have been running youth nights twice a month for the pre-teens and teens from there, we have been averaging between 20-30 kids a night with 6 of them coming to us from the Small Boy Reserve that is 1 ½ hour drive up the Forestry Trunk road. A father from that reserve is trying to keep his boys and some friends out of trouble so he drives them to the school at the Big Horn every day and brings them to every youth night we have had so far! True dedication from a father who loves his boys and just wants to give them the best chance possible.

 In the summer we run a free Native camp to reach out to the kids on the reserves in our area, it is such a popular week of camp it has been the first one to fill up every summer. The camp is looking into running a second camp for the Native kids because it is so popular and we have to turn kids away. Another really neat thing we run is a 3 month Adventure Bible School twice a year and they are looking into adding a free spot for one of the kids from the Reserve. That is a prayer request we have, that the second week of Native camp will work out for next summer and that it will be possible to offer a free spot in the Bible School program to one of the Reserve kids. They are hoping that it will open up some local ministry with in the Reserve by giving Biblical teaching for them to use in Bible study ministry there.

A few weeks ago two of the ladies from the Big Horn connected with Jess one of the staff wives here and one of them asked how to become a Christian! The ladies are eager to learn more so they are going to meeting with Jess and myself for Bible study once a week if it works out to go through the book of John. I am really excited about the Bible study with these ladies; both of them are fairly respected in their community at the Big Horn and this could be a huge opportunity to minister with them to the community. One of the ladies mentioned that maybe we could do a yoga night with women only and use it to talk about God with them! Really cool and exciting!

 

A few pictures from our youth night