Misplaced and Found

By: Chris Aderhold 

Greetings friends! 
 
This is Chris Topher coming to you LIVE from the holy ground of Camp Gray.  Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m writing and sending the weekly devotion a bit early this week.   

I hope you all are getting excited for Thanksgiving!  Unfortunately, I won’t be spending turkey day with my family in Oklahoma, but I’ll be heading out to La Crosse (clap and point) to spend the day with Ford (former Camp counselor), which is almost as good as spending it with my family (almost).      
 
Additionally, everyone should be getting excited about the big game my alma mater (Oklahoma State) is playing on Saturday against their arch-rival (Oklahoma).  You should probably check it out because I have a good feeling my Cowboys are going to dominate. 
  
I digress.  It’s been way too long since I’ve had the privilege to contribute to our Weekly Devotion Series.  This Sunday’s Gospel comes to us from the Holy Gospel of Mark: (more…)

By: Chris Aderhold

Happy Thanksgiving friends! 

The timing for our traditional Camp Gray family Thanksgiving Dinner couldn’t have been any better.  (more…)

By: Sara Knutson

Hello all!

As if to congratulate us on another successful retreat season (our last retreat of the fall, the Welcome to Life retreat, wrapped up yesterday afternoon), the snow fell last night. So I took a few photos, complete with 6-word captions, to let you see what camp’s looking like:

Beginning to look like true winter. (more…)

By: Rebecca Hoeben

 We’ve seen a few flurries at camp in the last couple of weeks as you may have read about in earlier blog posts but real winter excitement comes in the form of waking up and looking out the window to a blanket of snow covering everything at camp.  Today marked just that.  We received about 3 inches of that beautiful white powder.  Just enough for a few staff members to pull out the skis or get excited about snowball fights and snowshoe adventures.  The photo below is a glimpse of the winter commute heading into the camp office.  Bring on the snow!

By: Pat Andera 

Hello to all from a very beautiful and very busy Camp Gray. We are in the midst of a long stretch of retreats at camp – hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week already! On to this week’s Gospel:
 

Matthew 25:31-46  Jesus said to his disciples: (more…)