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Mark is also a Hunter’s Education Instructor for the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources, teaching hunting and firearms safety. |
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Mark has a life of experience outdoors. He has over 20 years of experience facilitating top-rope rock climbing and rappelling. Mark loves everything water and gained his first canoe guide experience in 1977 at age 11. Each year he has led our 30-mile whitewater canoe trip down the Flambeau River. He has logged and led several canoe trips to Quetico Provincial Park in Canada, kayaked the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, and spent an unreasonable number of nights backpacking and camping under the stars in remote areas of the West and Midwest.
Providing safe adventure programming gives us a platform on which to build redemptive relationships. Real relationships allow us to do the Ephesians 4:15 ministry of wrapping the Truth in Love. It is the Truth of God, put forth in His Word, and carried forward by God’s Spirit that will impact kids’ hearts for eternity.
Mark has a life of experience outdoors. He has over 20 years of experience facilitating top-rope rock climbing and rappelling. Mark loves everything water and gained his first canoe guide experience in 1977 at age 11. Each year he has led our 30-mile whitewater canoe trip down the Flambeau River. He has logged and led several canoe trips to Quetico Provincial Park in Canada, kayaked the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior, and spent an unreasonable number of nights backpacking and camping under the stars in remote areas of the West and Midwest.
Providing safe adventure programming gives us a platform on which to build redemptive relationships. Real relationships allow us to do the Ephesians 4:15 ministry of wrapping the Truth in Love. It is the Truth of God, put forth in His Word, and carried forward by God’s Spirit that will impact kids’ hearts for eternity.
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Camp Ministry has been a big part of Ben's life since he was a teenager. While in high school, he began to work at a small, Christian camp in the mountains of North Carolina. The mission of this camp eventually defined his own personal purpose in camp ministry. Offering completely free weeks of camp, the camp had the opportunity to minister to children and teens that would not normally have the opportunity to attend summer camp. He had the opportunity to experience, for the first time in his life, the hardships with which some families struggle. He became aware of the relational carnage that was an everyday part of their lives. For many of the children that attended camp, they were mainly recipients of this carnage. However, he did see an active, personal role that older children and teenagers had in the dysfunction of their homes.
WildHeart Adventure Camp is a tremendous outreach. He loves taking young men to explore the North Woods of Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan. Our campers have the opportunity to engage in outdoor activities in which they would never or rarely have participated. It is through these new experiences, that we have the opportunity to show them our Creator God who loves them. Using the tools of the outdoors, Ben's mission is to share God’s Word with our campers in a way that is fresh and clear.
Camp Ministry has been a big part of Ben's life since he was a teenager. While in high school, he began to work at a small, Christian camp in the mountains of North Carolina. The mission of this camp eventually defined his own personal purpose in camp ministry. Offering completely free weeks of camp, the camp had the opportunity to minister to children and teens that would not normally have the opportunity to attend summer camp. He had the opportunity to experience, for the first time in his life, the hardships with which some families struggle. He became aware of the relational carnage that was an everyday part of their lives. For many of the children that attended camp, they were mainly recipients of this carnage. However, he did see an active, personal role that older children and teenagers had in the dysfunction of their homes.
WildHeart Adventure Camp is a tremendous outreach. He loves taking young men to explore the North Woods of Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan. Our campers have the opportunity to engage in outdoor activities in which they would never or rarely have participated. It is through these new experiences, that we have the opportunity to show them our Creator God who loves them. Using the tools of the outdoors, Ben's mission is to share God’s Word with our campers in a way that is fresh and clear.
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Andy has been working with young men at a boarding school and camping ministry for the past 19 years. Thirteen of those years were in southeastern Ohio where he taught in the school, took care of the grounds and maintenance of the facility, and directed activities and skits during the camps. The last five years there he was the camp director as well. Now, for the last six years he has served as the “quartermaster” and logistics personnel of Wild Heart Adventure Camp. He procures and maintains all the gear, equipment, and supplies that are used for the various activities of camp. |
During camp, Andy helps to lead some of the week long backpacking and canoeing excursions. He also leads some of the “challenge” activities and teaches some of our outdoor training skills such as orienteering and blade safety.
Through these excursions, challenges, and teaching opportunities, Andy loves to share the gospel message that can lead a young man to a relationship with Jesus Christ, the creator of this beautiful yet fallen world.
Andy is the "quartermaster" and logistics personnel of WildHeart Adventure Camp. He procures and maintains all of the gear equipment and supplies that are used for the various activities of camp. Andy also helps to lead some of the week long camping, hiking, and canoeing trips that we take during the summer with WildHeart and during the school year with Victory Academy. During camp, he leads some of the "challenge" activities and teaches some of our outdoor training lessons such as orienteering and blade safety.
Through these excursions, challenges, and teaching opportunities, Andy loves to share the gospel message that can lead a young man to a relationship with Jesus Christ, the creator of this beautiful yet fallen world.
Andy is the "quartermaster" and logistics personnel of WildHeart Adventure Camp. He procures and maintains all of the gear equipment and supplies that are used for the various activities of camp. Andy also helps to lead some of the week long camping, hiking, and canoeing trips that we take during the summer with WildHeart and during the school year with Victory Academy. During camp, he leads some of the "challenge" activities and teaches some of our outdoor training lessons such as orienteering and blade safety.
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Camp ministry has had a great impact on Dan in his own discipleship experience and in his years as a youth pastor. His early experiences as a camper confronted some of the spiritual lethargy in his life as a teen and motivated him to yield his life to service to teens and adults. As a youth pastor, camp ministry was an essential discipleship tool for ministering to the hearts of teens. Dan believes that this “confrontation with truth” is especially important for young men as the distractions of this world system are so very real. It is exciting to work together as a ministry team in exhorting our campers to “act like men”, godly men. (Acts 16:13-14) |
As we pursue blending a passion for adventure with a passion for God, Dan gives direction to our discipleship program. Dan plans the preaching and devotional ministry of camp and trains and leads our counselor team. Truth is boldly declared, lived out by grace, and embraced in the context of loving relationships, relationships that are developed in the experiences of daily adventure. Dan is the king of the pyramid challenge, weekend camp cookouts, and the ping pong table.
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Lynne Massey, Gina Morrison, and Bekah Barrick
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