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The following is an excerpt from the book
"EXPLOSION of the ordinary" the on-going story of the CANADIAN
SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSION.
A PERMANENT SITE
The committee believed this to be God's solution. In
June, 1930, the money was used to buy a campsite near Gimli, Manitoba.
Elmudur Gudmundson sold them seventeen acres with excellent lake frontage for a
price that almost matched the legacy.
That was just the beginning. Now came the task of
preparing the property for its designated purpose - CAMP. The members of
the committee met almost every days. By camp time in July, some of the
buildings were up and ready for use, and two large tents had been rented.
One of the leaders of that camp recalls that meals had to be served out in the
open, and a particularly rainy month made this rather difficult.
But showers of blessings also descended on the
camp that year and in the years following. Literally thousands of lives have
been transformed at that camp - lives like that of Nick Woychuk.
Nick spent the winter of 1932 on a farm
in the backwoods of Manitoba memorizing the 500 verses that would earn him eight
days at the Gimli camp. But Nick had no money to pay his trip to
camp. He had resigned himself to a disappointing summer on the farm, when
a car drove into the yard. A CSSM worker stepped out.
"I've come, Nick" he said, "to take you to
camp."
Within half an hour, Nick was on his way to Lake
Winnipeg. His only thoughts were swimming and games and fun, but at camp
he was introduced to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Today in almost any Christian book store you can pick up
books that have come from the pen of Dr. Nicholas Woychuk, graduate of Dallas
Theological Seminary and Presbyterian pastor. Or you might be told of the
Miracle Camp in Shreveport, Louisiana - attended by some 1200 boys and girls
each year. Nick started that camp!
Nick testifies today; "It was the Canadian Sunday School
Mission camp at Gimli that did the trick. It was there that I found the
Lord Jesus Christ!"
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