May 12 Evacuation Update

The community of Nordegg has been evacuated and we are currently under a 20 minute evacuation notice. Driving home from Red Deer today we could see the smoke like crazy over Nordegg and police cars everywhere helping people out of Nordegg. Thankfully the highway was not closed so we could drive past and get home. We have left everything packed in the vehicle in the case of being evacuated all we need to do is get Joelle, Liam, Keeha our dog and us to the vehicle and go. Troy is technically in charge of site evacuation but it seems like all the managers are working together on this one (they have never had to evacuate the camp before) so he will be staying behind with the Jeep to make sure everyone from the camp gets out and will meet me where we are told to go.

While we were in Red Deer today we went to church at CrossRoads and I couldn’t help but feel like the message was for us. It was titled when good isn’t good enough, a sermon based off Mark 10: 17-27 about the rich man entering the kingdom of God and how it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. He told the rich man to sell everything and follow him, what he is looking for is our hearts to be His. This fall we felt God calling us to camp ministry and we answered with wherever you want us to be God, feeling that Frontier Lodge was where he was calling us we quit our jobs and moved out here. Now just 4 months after being here we are potentially looking at losing everything we have. Having the time to walk through our house a few days ago and choose to save things it is surprising at how little of our things we chose to save. Things we didn’t choose to take but wouldn’t be able to replace would be sad but our life would go on without them.  Even if I didn’t have the time to save those things we packed into the vehicle the most important things in my life I would still have, my faith, my God and my family. If we lose everything God is our provider and I still believe we are called to be here for this time, it might change what we thought it would be like but we have been called here for a reason.