Camp and Retreat Ministries Looking for Full Time Latgawa Director
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Camp and Retreat Ministries in the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference has an opening for a site director at Camp Latgawa. We are looking for a director who will lead this site in fulfilling our mission of creating quality environments of Christian hospitality and learning. Responsibilities include programming, hospitality, staff supervision, administration, maintenance, food service and volunteer recruitment. We expect candidates to demonstrate a commitment to following Jesus, fulfilling our mission, and have experience in camp and retreat ministry. Please click here for a list of the materials to be submitted to the Interim Executive Director of Camp and Retreat Ministry, the Reverend Todd Bartlett. We will close the application process on December 1st.
Click here to read the full advertisement for the position
Recapping the UMCOR Kit Kamp
by Dee Poujade
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Sixteen women from the OR/ID Annual Conference spent a glorious fall weekend at Camp Magruder sewing school bags and layette items for the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) Depot in Salt Lake City (UMCOR West). It was the Conference’s second annual “Kit Kamp,” so named because the items made will find their way into some of the Depot’s seven “kits” that are used in disaster relief situations worldwide.
During the Thursday-Sunday event, the sewers made 130 school bags (which will be filled with paper, pencils, crayons and other supplies needed by school children). They also made 32 baby jackets, 19 baby gowns and 21 diapers, which will go into layette kits for worldwide distribution. Other “kits” distributed by UMCOR include sewing kits, health kits, birthing kits, bedding kits and flood buckets.
The third annual “Kit Kamp” will be October 26-29, 2017. Watch this space – or check gocamping.org – for more details early next year.
Click here to read Dee's full report.
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Immerse Yourself in the Divine Outdoors
by Eric Conklin
I don't know about you, but I need a retreat this week.
AND it just so happens that a cohort I am involved with through the Missional Wisdom Foundation (MWF), is heading to Suttle Lake Camp on Friday for a retreat focused on coaching, one of the MWF's teaching principles.
As much as I am looking forward to our cohort's practice of deep community, I am also looking forward to spending time in creation as an act of worship in itself. Richard Rohr's November 8 daily meditation edition, titled "Nature as a Mirror of God" ends with this sentence:
"Creation is not a mere scenic backdrop so humans can take over the stage. Creation is in fact a full participant in human transformation, since the outer world is absolutely needed to mirror the true inner world. There are not just two sacraments, or even seven; the whole world is a sacrament!"
This is why our camps are in rustic and wild places, not in manicured universities or public parks: so that, as much as we are able, people who visit our sites will experience together an unfiltered connection to the divine.
If you are in need of a personal spiritual retreat after this week, or would like to take your church or organization for time away with the divine, contact one of our site directors, and they would love to make that happen!
To read all of Richard Rohr's beautiful words, click here
