After 75 years of ministering to kids each summer, Camp Arnes north of Winnipeg is celebrating all that God has done.
"Seventy-five years of God's grace and provision," says Neoma Greene, a volunteer and she is also a board member at the camp. "We've got a couple events planned for the weekend. We've got Bread we Break concert and message on the Friday and on Sunday we have a day full of celebration."
The celebration event will take place at Camp Arnes on September 20 and 22.
"I walked onto this site in February of 2022 to reopen it after COVID," says Jim Croy, the Executive Director at Camp Arnes. "This camp is wild when the kids are here, and beautiful and peaceful when they're not. I can't drive down the driveway without a big grin on my face."
About 500 children and youth come to the summer camp during July and August.
"When you're there you just feel God's presence," says Greene. "To worship together with like-minded people, the evening sessions and your daily activities, praying together, for me learning how to pray out loud in a group, it can be scary. But you get to practise sharing your faith. Just seeing how God changes the kids' hearts from a shy or angry camper at the beginning of the week to one that's just full of life. Everything's different because they've found Jesus."
To register for either celebration day, people can sign up here.