Kawkawa

So this blog entry is a little late, okay a lot late, but it seems things have been happening so fast lately. It’s hard to believe that it’s the middle of November already, which means our first semester is coming to a close. I’m taking you back to our second week after Thanksgiving.  

After reuniting from being apart during girls and guys week, we drove out to Hope, BC. We arrived at Camp Kawkawa just in time for a delicious welcoming supper, which was the first of many wonderful meals. Camp Kawkawa was on beautiful Lake Kawkawa which we could see out of the large dining room windows. They had a fake, but very warm fireplace and some comfy couches that we used quite often. The camp had canoes and kayaks that some of us made use of. We very quickly began to think of Kawkawa as home.   

While in Hope we got to go ice skating at the local rink and swimming in the pool, activities which many of us enjoyed. We also had the opportunity to do laundry – yay! Many of us made use of a local café called the Blue Moose, which had good coffee and free wifi.

There were many fun things to do at Kawkawa but we also had classes. Our first speaker at Camp Kawkawa was Steve Klassen. (No, not the leader from site 2!) Steve and his wife Evy run a place called the MARK Center. He taught from the book of Mark and touched on ways to hear God speaking, with an emphasis on the importance of silence and solitude. At the end of the week we had a day of silence where we spent time alone with God.  Some of us had great God encounters during our time of silence and other struggled to hear God. Despite our different experiences I think most of us took something away from that day, either through our own experience or from hearing someone else’s.

We all enjoyed our first week at Camp Kawkawa and were looking forward to see what the next week would bring.

Kelsey Friesen