WE Article in Chico ER

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WE 09 Summer Celebration

Wilderness Experience Summer Celebration: Friday, August 28 at 7 pm, we will celebrate our great summer together, sharing dinner and dessert, recognizing our volunteers and an unveiling of the WE 2009 Video. We will meet at the Fellowship Hall at Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 208 W. 1^st Street in Chico. The entire family is invited to come and participate. Please RSVP to 342-7692 or e-mail jim@orchardchurch.com if you can come and let us know how many people you will have with you.

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Check out our videos and pictures on Facebook. If you are a Facebook member, search Wilderness Experience '09. Thanks for following us!!

WE 09 - Klamath River

We survived our final trip on the wild and scenic Klamath River. We swam at Clear Creek, rafted (and conquered) the Klamath, including mighty Dragon's Tooth, hiked to Ukonom Falls (which is spectacular), camped at Curly Jack Campground in Happy Camp (Home of the Sasquatch...bigfoot to you "lay people"), and swam in the Upper Sacramento River. It was a great experience.

The experience was so much deeper though than just swimming, rafting, hiking. God met us up on the Klamath and continued to grow young men and women who will be able to rise from the ashes of their broken lives and families and pursue the life God has for them.

Thanks for praying for us on these trips. 48 youth, four trips, several decisions for Christ, stories of God's empowering work were heard at each trip. Check out our new pictures and videos on our Facebook site. Thanks again for being part of WE 09 group.

Final WE Trip this week....

Jim Culp wrote
at 7:41am

Just finished shopping for the last Wilderness Experience trip this morning. After 10 months of planning, five day trips, three Summer trips, and connection with over 50 kids and more than 20 adult volunteers, it is hard to believe it is almost over.

This Thursday, we leave for the Klamath River, to swim, whitewater raft, hike to waterfalls and continue to connect with God. This is are smallest trip, designed for kids who have participated all year long. Our focus this week is "growth" as a follower of Jesus. Most kids this week are believers and we want to help them have the tools to grow.

Please pray for our safety, energy, continued connection with the kids and opportunities to encourage students to grow as they follow Jesus! Thanks for following us and praying for us this Summer.

Check out the new pictures and videos on our Wilderness Experience '09 Facebook page. We'd love to have you follow us on Facebook.

WE 09 - Bucks Lake

What a great trip...we tubed behind the Martinez's boat in a 3 man tube, swam, played watermelon rugby at amazingly beautiful Bucks Lake (check out the pictures later in the week). But the best part by far was that we had a couple new decisions for Christ and one of the kids who has changed the most in the past three years shared his story of how he came to faith this year. It will be a life-changing story for many of the other kids.

We take a week off, then wrap up WE Summer 09 with a whitewater raft trip on the Klamath River.

Wilderness Experience - Mccloud Falls!!

What a great trip to McCloud Falls!! We took 35 youth to McCloud for some awesome cliff jumping. 15 kids did the 40 footer!! Even six adults mustered the courage to take the leap!! Then we shared a great time jumping and swimming in glacier water at Lower Falls. A dozen kids fished and caught a bunch of fish, too. Friday morning was incredible with a great outdoor ed lesson by Naomi Groot on the life of a Trout (played by Casey Moreno), followed by Casey's moving testimony. Throwing in Casey's "Southern Rock" styled worship and the morning was great...and all that followed a great talk by Colby on Thursday night on Psalm 104 on the Majesty of God in His Creation!! Amazing trip!!

Keep Praying for us as we have 40 signed up for Buck's Lake in six days from now!!