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Every couple of Mondays we are going to have the honour to share our business members over our social media - today's feature, Arrow Leadership. "For 30 years, Arrow Leadership has been helping leaders like you find clarity, community and confidence for greater Kingdom impact. We offer Jesus-centered programs, personal mentoring, organizational consulting and resources that develop you and your team to Lead Different. We follow Jesus. He led differently, and he’s the leader o...f leaders. Our conviction is we have lots to learn from Jesus, and he wants to transform you to lead differently. That’s the heart of Jesus-centered leadership. Being led more by Jesus experiencing freedom, peace and security from a grounded identity and vibrant relationship with Jesus. Leading more like Jesus as a servant leader with deeper character, greater confidence and enhanced competence. Leading more to Jesus equipped and empowered to share God’s love clearly, creatively and compassionately to grow God’s Kingdom." To learn more about what Arrow Leadership offers, please visit their website at www.arrowleadership.org and make sure to mention you're a member of CCI-Canada. We do have a discount on Arrow's services; try using CCI10 and take advantage of this great partnership!

One of my scariest horse encounters happened while I was working on the ropes course. It is not often the ziplines and climbing walls have any interaction with the horses, so this is probably a surprising story to hear about. I was sitting at the bottom of our longest zipline, flag (to signal the staff member at the top to lower, raise, etc,.). The cable is surrounded on one side by the forest. We had a lot of moose activity that summer so I thought maybe it could be a moos...e. I radioed the person at the top of the tower, to tell them to wait. After searching the forest and seeing nothing, I told them they could send the kid down. As soon as the kid started coming down, four of our horses from the back pasture waltzed into the fenced off area. There was a flash of scenarios that hit my head. I could leave them there, hope they would not be spooked by the child, and just leave the child on the line for a while. But everyone who knows horses know that a child flying down a zipline that makes a loud buzzing noise is going to terrify a set of horses. So I sprinted, bare foot, down to where the horses were. I started screaming and waving my arms and got them running. I swear I have never run as quickly as I did then. Chasing them down through the fenced area, I know I looked like a crazy woman. There were staff in our main lodge, laughing because all they saw was a posse of horses running and then me. The kid hit the end of the line as I finished chasing off the horses and then I was back trying to catch up with the zipliner. What's the scariest close call you've had?

Camps who registered for the conference will receive one of our "A Way in the Wilderness" CCI Canada toques made by Portage Promo. It's comfy, it goes with everything, and best of all it reps the truth of our God who makes a way in this wilderness. (Worn by me - Ashley Pearse, Marketing Assistant.)

Tuesday is verse day! May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. ~ Romans 15:13 Happy New Years everybody! Now is the season of hope, of new beginnings, and of a bright new year ahead of us! God is good and His faithfulness is going to show this year as we resume our lives. ... We have a reason to hope. For many legitimate reasons but more than anything else, we have a reason for hope because God makes our days and plans our path. He already knows what is in store.

Happy New Year! Tonight we celebrate the end of this tumultuous year and we enter into a new one of promise, endless possibilities, and time with our good God. To break our typical Thursday outline, I want to share a verse, and sentiment so it may carry you into this new year.... Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17 We celebrate New Years Eve and the New Year as the belief we are given a clean slate, but the truth remains that we are made new everyday in Christ. Every day He gives us a fresh infilling of His Holy Spirit and a blank slate to begin on the right note. Today you are made new. Not because of the turning of the year, but simply through the grace and mercy of Christ. Yes, we should walk in our newness into the next year but we should also continue to do so past the first day. To recall our conference last month "Do you not see it? God is doing a new thing!". God wants to use you this upcoming year. He wants to use your camp. It was a hard past year and yet God is still making a way through the wilderness. It is not perfect and it has not been what many would call a highlight year, but God still worked and ministered through us and He will continue to do so. May God bless you and your camps and your families into 2021 and may His face shine upon you! Happy New Year.

Tuesday is verse day! He replied, Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. What are your prayers heading into the New Year? Are they powerful prayers? Are you praying to move mountains?... As we head into the New Year it is important our prayers reflect how we want God to move. Our faith can move mountains. There are some metaphorical mountains on the horizon as always there are in life. It is our job to be praying. I love how excited kids get when they hear this verse. One boy looked at me ecstatically after I read the verse to a crowd of them and said "I'm going to move Mount Everest!" It was absolutely adorable. Once again, faith like a child. Now we are not going to talk about the implications of moving a mountain, especially one as huge as Everest, but the awe and wonder of children always touches my heart. So together let's move mountains.