Junior Camp (AGES 8-10): Saturday, June 29 – Friday, July 5 
Intermediate Camp (AGES 10-12): Sunday, July 7 – Saturday, July 13
Teen Camp (GRADES 7 & UP): Sunday, July 21 – Saturday, July 27

2023 Camping Season: Registration Deadlines 

Early Bird Date: May 17, 2024 (fees: $300)
Cut-off Date: June 17, 2024 (fees: $350) 

2023 Camping Season: We’re Hiring! 

We are looking for enthusiastic and inspiring people for the following:
Paid Positions: Cooks, and a Maintenance Person 

All paid ositions are full-time and have a good wage with board and room provided. Secondary students encouraged. 

Volunteer Positions: Camp leaders, chaplains, health officers, counsellors 

2023 Camping Season: Camp Clean-up 

Camp Clean-up is May 18, 2024. We will need some help to clean up the camp for the upcoming summer!

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Fr. Matt left the Tri-Valley Parish in the Diocese of Brandon at the end of the following week. He came to the parish in early 2017, shortly after Bishop William Cliff was consecrated in March, 2016. His appointment and subsequent ordinations was one of the first appoinments made by Bishop William. His response to Fr. Matt’s leaving was that he was sorry to see him go, but glad he had found the right place to move on. 

At Fr. Matt’s last service, congregants from Reston and Melita joined those from Virden to see him off. His last sermon before them acknowledged that in leaving there was both pain and joy. 

He wanted an ordinary service, but before he was able to process during the last hymn, the parish honoured him with a tribute gift, a mug with the church on it, as well as a purse. Anyone who was close enough to see his face knew his eyes teared up. Then, during the recessional, he was asked to stop midway down the aisle. Together, everyone there raised their hands in thanks and blessing. 

As several of his parishioners said during the gathering afterwards, “he’ll be hard to replace”. Those who have worked with him on Diocesan committees, including the Diocesan Executive Committee, would agree. He prayed hard; he worked hard. 

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On the Thursday of her visit, there was a meet and greet at St. Mary’s, Brandon, where clergy and lay members of the Diocese were invited to come and spend some time with our new bishop.

Here are some pictures from that meet and greet!

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This month of March brings with it some rather important celebrations in the life of the Church. On the 18th I will be consecrated your 8th Bishop of Brandon and finally able to officially begin the work I have been longing to do since last November. The 2nd and 3rd parts of Lent will be upon us, with Holy Week looming large. Easter Day falls on the last day of this incredible month when we are truly invited to live into the Resurrection lives we experience each day. (More on that in the April edition.) 

This Lenten season is one in which we, as a Diocese, are being invited to pray ceaselessly, ponder deeply, discern faithfully as we recognize that our Diocesan Lent is one which is changing all our lives. It will bring about  he formalization of new episcopal leadership. It will grant us an opportunity to break our Lenten fast and celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph as we participate together in the next generation of our Church Family becoming … 

This Lent I invite you to consider that word “becoming.” Who is it that God is inviting us to become as we establish new relationships one with another? How are we growing into who we will become? What will become of our Diocese as our shared ministry unfolds with a new bishop who brings a different perspective to the Family? How are you called to help me, as your new bishop, become who God is calling me to become? How am I called to help you live into the beauty and potential of who God is calling you to become as Christians, congregations, as a Diocese? 

As I approach the Consecration on the 18th of this month at the Cathedral, I do so with a healthy sense of wonderment and questioning who it is that God is helping me to become. I can see the changes that have begun in my own heart, mind, and soul since the election in November. In many ways, I feel as though I have been living in a season of Lent since then. I am aware that life cannot go back to the way it was. Nor would I want it to. I am cognizant that I can take not one step forward on my own steam, but only by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. I am living in a vulnerable, yet gentle, space in which Jesus’ presence is palpable, comforting, and challenging. I am in a very Lenten season. 

I invite you to join me in this intentional season of Lenten becoming … We are on a journey together which will change who we were and into who God is calling us to become. Our Resurrection Day is almost upon us, but we need this season of preparation to become ready for what God is preparing for us next. I believe what God is calling us to become is glorious! 

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