I went back to Deer Lake this summer. I first went to Deer Lake the summer of 2015 under Northern Youth Programs. They had received a request for Bible school teachers from the pastor at the Harvest Pentecostal church and sent two young people there as part of their summer ministry program. Just Laura and
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Deer Lake. Second only to Rusk County—and now Garrett County, Maryland—as home of my heart. I cannot write a fraction of what I know of her, but with you I share your beauty, so that maybe you will love her, too. I traveled there in July with the first six people in this plane. This
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July was everything. It wounded me, warmed me, overwhelmed me. Everything that could have happened, did happen. There was a family reunion. There was Deer Lake. There was this crazy awesome group of people—I call them team members, therapists, friends—who impacted my world in ways I didn’t expect. There was beauty. There were sunsets. Children.
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That’s us by the Cessna in the feature photo above (email readers will need to click through to the blog), ready to take flight for Deer Lake. This is my fourth year of traveling to Deer Lake, a reserve of around a thousand people in northern Ontario, to help with summer Bible school. This year, we had
There is a place and a people in the North that has grown in my heart over the years, a place where laughter is loud and deep, where space is wide and silence immense, where loons call and we will have moose for supper tonight. Deer Lake, Ontario, here we come!
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