After coming back from a restful week of catching up with family, visiting old friends, and finishing overdue homework on Spring Break, the mood of the building begins to move to Spring fever, especially after seeing all the wildflowers on the drive up to Hume. The sun started shining again, eating on picnic blankets outside returned, and official Turkey prep began after our New Testament class this week on the Holy Spirit. I even got
Hello again, everyone! Happy last week before spring break! This week has been a unique week for the class. Starting this week, we welcomed our third and final group of preview kids! It is always one of my favorite times of the year because I get to share information and advice for the program. I love Joshua Wilderness Institute, so to be able to share my love and recommend it to others is a wonderful
Kylie Malia here, How often do we forget or stereotype the people left in prison? What do you think of when you think of prison? I know for sure I went into the prison ministry with at least a little feeling of how the prisoners were to receive me and my Joshua siblings. For some reason, I felt really heavy, a fear that my words wouldn’t matter going into it. Likewise, the men we sat
Howdy! It’s been yet another rollercoaster of a week up at the Joshua building. After working a couple of four-day winter camp weekends in a row, the return of our sabbath Monday morning was a much-needed refresher. We’ve been blessed by the presence of Dean and Nancie this week, and their constant care has been uplifting. On Tuesday, we found out our evangelism groups for our LA trip next week (shout out to Katie, Adari,
“And coming on the ice to defend their three year undefeated Kurth Cup title, give it up for the masters of the ice, the Hume Lake boys!!” The crowds burst into an uproar and the broom hockey arena shook with the cheers of the Hume Lake full-timers, part-timers, Joshua students, proud parents, and all the defeated teams living vicariously through this epic event. Broom hockey at Hume Lake is life. The weekend winter campers versus
Hello everyone! This week for me has been so much fun!!! One special highlight was Valentine’s Day! For Valentine’s Day, the guys decided to decorate the dining hall and serve the ladies waffles! We stayed up pretty late and had some surprise spoiling scares, but in the end it turned out to be a sweet gift for the Ladies. Along with Valentine’s Day to mark this week was Philippians 3 testing! It is incredible to