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[Work Weekend] [New Van] [Monty Parks] [Jan/Feb 2001]

Informational Dinner & Silent Auction
Mar. 21, 2002

Transparencies at Dorion 
Dinner
"The Transparencies" rock the Slovak.

Flying With Our Feet on the Ground was the theme of the evening as we gathered at the Slovak Legion with volunteers and supporters to review with gratitude the last seven years of DBCCC ministry and to look forward to the future.

After an excellent meal, music was provided by The Transparencies and The Sunday Night Choir led by Diane Wolframe and several long time Camp volunteers were honoured. Executive Director, Charlie Wilson, highlighted various changes and answers to prayer experienced recently at DBCCC. The goals developed by the Board and fulltime staff were presented:

Leadership: (flying)
Camp
To provide a holistic Christian camping experience that is unique, exciting and challenging.

Conference Centre
To become the major Christian Leadership training facility in North Western Ontario.

Stewardship: (our feet on the ground)
Camp
To develop and maintain facilities that are safe, secure, functional and inviting.

To operate with a full complement of full time and volunteer staff who are committed and consistently being equipped.

Conference Centre
To maximize the use in accordance with our vision statement.


The Vision of Dorion Bible Camp is campers and staff of all ages saved and walking with Christ.

The Vision of Dorion Conference Centre is mature Christians and Churches in Northwestern Ontario.

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Please, join with us in praying for DBCCC in terms of the goals listed above.

Thank you to all who participated and especially to all who donated and/or purchased Silent Auction items.

Please email me if you have better pictures of this event. Thank you.

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Quick Build
October 2001

The new DBCCC building
New staff home/office at Dorion Bible Conference Centre

The week of October 12 - 20 was one of action and miracles at Dorion Bible Camp and Conference Centre. Funds had been left to the camp from an estate and the camp board had directed those funds towards a much needed staff home for permanent staff with an office attachment. Prior to the beginning day of the Quick Build a cement slab had been poured on which to build the house/office complex.

Each of the eight days saw an average of about twenty-five adults working together framing, roofing, siding, wiring, insulating, dry-walling, painting, flooring and installing kitchen cupboards, resulting in a 32' x 68' building. What a miracle! Charlie and Margie Wilson moved into the house on October 25, only fourteen days after the Build began.

Our thanks go to the fifty-eight people who volunteered their time to lead in the project. The excitement of those days brought volunteers from five provinces.Special thanks go to Dennis Seargeant for heading this whole operation up for us!. Once again we praise the Lord for VOLUNTEERS.

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THANK YOU

We greatly appreciate those who this past summer gave sacrificially of their time at Dorion Bible Camp. Our staff team comprised a great variety of ages, church backgrounds, job descriptions and levels of camp experience. As well we had quite a few staff from outside the Thunder Bay area (including Tim and Jeff from the U.S. of A.).

Click on the staff picture for pictures of Summer 2001.

Click here for Summer 2001 pics.

Our staff are our greatest resource and their diversity provides a great source of strength for ministry.

Perhaps you have a part in the diversity of Summer Staff 2002!!!!

For more information contact Camp Dorion at 1-800-268-1609
or e-mail Keith Adams, Manager of Operations

A big THANK YOU goes as well
to you the parents who entrusted us with your greatest treasures.
(Your children, that is.)

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Dorion Bible Camp Work Weekend
May 18,19/2001

Stephen's Leaf Collection
Stephen Hambly Leads the Way Cleaning Up the Grounds
Around forty-five people gathered at Dorion Bible Camp in order to help prepare the buildings and grounds for Summer 2001. Tasks included raking leaves, setting up picnic tables and field equipment (including the new Children's play set), tidying up the beach, baking, cleaning and taking inventory of the Crafts Cabin, cleaning the Kitchen, cabins and other quarters and hauling away garbage. Generous meals and snacks were provided by Margie Wilson and her crew.

Thank you to all who participated and to Stephen Hambly and Margie Wilson for organizing the weekend.

Sarge and Hannah

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New Camp Van

New Van Donated to Dorion Bible Camp & Conference Centre by Local Businessman

In the last year I have been blown away by the focus on prayer there has been with God's people. It seems that I am constantly hearing about a prayer meeting starting or continuing and the blessings that follow. God is calling His people to pray.

I personally have been challenged to pray more often, more fervently and more expectantly. This challenge has been the focus of all of us here at DBC. We as staff determined to make 2001 a year of prayer and we have been awed by God's response. At our fundraising dinner in November 2000 we made known three needs:

1) The elimination of the debt from constructing Eagles Nest.

2) A new 12 or 15 passenger van for camper transport.

3) Another staff residence on the property.

God prompted supporters and by March much of the debt was paid. In March we received a large legacy which eliminated the rest. Part of the legacy was put aside towards the new residence. We were amazed.

One day also in March I was contacted by a local business man informing me that he wanted to donate the cost of a new van to DBC. Wow!! In May I was contacted by a faithful supporter who wanted to donate the balance of the cost of the new residence.

Our God is faithful, isn't He?

We have seen many other answers to prayer this year--staff shortages, safety issues, zoning issues, camper concerns and many other things have been fervently prayed about.

Through the summer I asked the staff to bring to me accounts of specific prayers being answered and I am putting together a "Prayer Journal". On a wider scale, perhaps you have seen God at work in your life recently. Would you be interested in letting me know how He has done so? If so call me (Charlie Wilson) at 1-800-268-1609 or 1-807-857-2331 or email dbccc@northroute.net. If there is something you would like us to partner with you to pray about, let us know and we will pray with you.

Recently I was again challenged by the faithfulness of God: "...He will remain faithful for He cannot deny Himself." 2 Timothy 2:13. Isn't that just the best news you've heard in a long time? Prayer is a journey with God -- the further you go the better the scenery. Keep on praying!

-- Charlie Wilson

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Monty Parks: 1979
In memoriam
Monty Parks

March 18, 1933 -- March 17, 2001

On Saturday March 24 there was not a seat to spare in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church as family and many, many friends gathered to remember and to celebrate the life of Monty Parks. Lamont Royce Parks, age 67 of Thunder Bay, passed away peacefully on March 17, 2001, following a lengthy illness. Monty has gone home to be with the Lord Jesus he loved and worshipped.

For 48 years Monty served at Dorion Bible Camp every summer, singing, playing his guitar and telling Bible stories to the children in a way that only he could. Eventually, a small cabin was furnished for his use and is still called "Lamont".

In 1996 Monty shared these recollections of his summers at Camp Dorion:

In the Summer of '52 I arrived to be a counsellor at the camp after a two day bus trip from Michigan--a green American in a foreign country. What I found was a rather small clearing on the shore of Black Bay. There were five cabins, a rustic dining room and kitchen, a chapel with dirt floor, no hydro, no running water (except when we ran for it and drew it from the well with a bucket) and a small staff which included Eleanor Moyer, "Mo" Mouland and Millie Pytyck. I loved it. This became "home" for each summer.

Years came and went and so did many campers and staff. Lifelong friendships have been formed here. We changed from oil and gas lamps to hydro power and from outhouses to flush toilets and other modern conveniences. But I'm glad to say that one thing hasn't changed: The purpose and message of the camp is still the Good News of Jesus Christ; to know Him and make Him known.

Monty was born and raised near Grand Rapids, Michigan. After graduating from the Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music, he worked for Youth For Christ in Belleville until 1968, when he moved to the Lakehead to work for ARC Industries. Many of Monty's friends from ARC Annex attended his Memorial Service.

Monty contributed to his new community in many ways, many of them musical. He led the Monty Parks Chorale and more recently The King's Heralders. It was always special to hear Monty, when, with guitar in hand, or accompanied by friends, he stood to sing. With his clear voice he lifted the hearts of his listeners to join in worship of the One he loved most, his Lord Jesus Christ.

A highlight for Monty was his trip to Israel, a gift from Camp Dorion in 1982 in honour of his thirty years at Camp.

His brothers and sisters at Westmount Gospel Chapel, Dorion Bible Fellowship and Farrand St. Bible Chapel, where he worshipped for many years, will miss the music he brought, his time spent teaching children and his clear teaching of God's Word. Many others from other churches were blessed as well as Monty shared his life in Christ with them in Bible Studies or over breakfast or coffee at the Golf Dome or at the Great Northwest Coffee Company. Monty was known for his confident faith and firm convictions expressed in a gentle and respectful manner.

Again in his 1996 reflections on Camp life, he expressed how he had learned not to jump to quick conclusions:

God's work in lives is often not visible at the time. There were campers who seemed to be intensely interested in the Gospel, but grew up choosing not to follow the Lord. But there were also campers who appeared uninterested, but who were actually trusting Him and today are serving Him. We must faithfully sow the seed and water it, but only God can do a real work in hearts.

Donations in memory of Monty Parks may be made to Dorion Bible Camp.

Click below to view pictures of Monty. Use "Back" button to return here.

|Hauling Water: 1953| Twins Supper: 1979| Candace Kydd's Wedding: 1979| 30 Years at Camp: 1982|
|Monk Supper: 1982| Christmas Carolling: 1984| Monty the "Elephant": 1989| Miss Moyer and Bob Parks 2001|

Thank you to Marilyn Shaver for her help with this tribute.

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January and February 2001 News

Charlie Wilson & Millie Pytyck
Charlie and Millie at the DBC reunion at Briercrest Bible College, Caronport, SK.
Charlie Wilson, Richard Pepper and Keith Adams travelled to Camp Days at Saskatchewan's Briercrest Bible College January 28 - 30. While there connecting with other camps and potential staff recruits, they visited with Glenn, Kathy, Jeremy and Corey Runnalls (Logan now lives in Alberta), Katie Underhill and Sarah Jansen, Jesse and Liz Jones and MIllie Pytyck (pictured).

January 31 was Summer Ministries Day at Providence College near Winnipeg. There they had lunch with Raili and Doctor Michael Gilmour now no longer a student (first time since age four) and teaching New Testament at Providence. Mike is very proud of his Marvin the Martian mug given him by Kyla. (Check the picture). As this is being written, Raili is visiting Jenni in Cambridge and is also anticipating a knee operation. We are all hoping that it won't be scheduled for the summer!

Other people who have been at DBCCC at one time or another who were visited on this trip include Mark and Tina Mast in Rainy River, Albert and Maureen Dean in Winnipeg and Fred Penner in Lorette.

Checkmate, Stalemate or Soulmate? was the title of DBCCC's first Marriage Workshop at Eagles Nest (Feb. 2 & 3) with Eric and Christina Long. Eric and Christina have a long association with DBCCC through their own participation and that of their children, including Aaron and Stephanie on staff. Participants turned in very positive evaluation comments and we look forward to similar events in the future.

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Thank you for your interest in Dorion Bible Camp and Conference Centre.

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