It’s been an interesting few weeks for our nation and for our own communities. At Camp Barakel we’re following our state guidelines, doing our part against the Coronavirus. We’re also thinking about how we can best prepare camp for our next guests. If you and I were to listen to the news media we might […]
Jesus loves me this I know
How are you? We hope you are well. With Covid-19 in every headline and news report its hard not to think about much else. Probably like you, we have friends and family working in the healthcare community and they are especially in our prayers right now. I think of Isaiah 41:10: “fear not, for I […]
Another pair of hands
For three days this week all of the staff gather on Camp Barakel’s west side to deep clean our main buildings. In a couple of weeks, we’ll do it again on the east side. It’s a big job made smaller by many pairs of hands. And even though these are days when there’s a lot […]
Anything and everything
On a recent Saturday this winter, a pair of gloves rested on the engine cowl of the Barakel bus I was driving. I was one of three shuttle bus drivers for a teen retreat. A silent prayer passed through my mind asking God to bring the person who owned these gloves to ride on my […]
Your days are numbered
Hello Friends, Carolyn here. Winter is a busy season for us at Barakel. During the week we prepare for our guests. There are lodges and cabins to clean, food to prepare, snow to plow and shovel, plus a variety of other things to be done to get ready for weekend winter retreats. The weekends are […]
You’re Welcome
Near the end of our winter retreat season here at Barakel, we have two weekends when we have a combined Junior and Senior High teen retreat on both sides of camp. On those weekends we bus campers from camp’s west side to the east side for three of four chapel sessions. Our retreats are really […]
Time with teens
Greetings Friends, Carolyn here. I work in the trading post during retreats. The trading post carries various gifts, t-shirts, sweatshirts, snacks, and soft drinks. It also carries good Christian books and Bibles. I also have the privilege of ordering and stocking those books. Since I love to read I enjoy this. At the end of […]
“Thank you!!!!!”
What a powerful way to say goodbye. One of the many fun parts of being the chapel leader for a senior high retreat is saying goodbye in the road as cars, vans and buses leave Barakel after a full weekend. On Sunday as I stepped onto the bus headed back to Immanuel Baptist in Saginaw […]