Wanted: One Cook

Dream Job; Employment Opportunities
Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp is seeking a unique and talented individual to head up our unique and talented kitchen team as Summer Head Cook. This 8-week paid position will be central to the success of all of our Summer Programming in 2021 . Our ideal...

The (Final) Plan

Camp Life
Today is a perfect spring day in the Pass. It’s warm - almost “hot”. The trees are budding explosively, like they had waited together, conspiratorially, for this weekend, and then all together, all at once, push out their first neon green leaves. It...

Covid and the COLTS

Covid Communications
The COLTS have arrived. If ever there was a tell tale sign of spring in this corner of the world, this is it. I won’t disparage the crocus by saying the COLTS are more exciting, but it is exciting to see the COLTS arrive. Almost as exciting as a...

Surfing and Covid

Covid Communications
I have surfed in Tofino. That isn’t related, really, to this week’s Covid Blog. I just wanted to take this opportunity to brag. Thanks for indulging me. Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp has had a few long standing acronyms. You got your leadership program...

Covid-19 Update: 19 April 2021

Coronavirus
The 6 April Press Conference held by Dr. Deena Hinshaw was a strange one, if you are a student of these things. Strange, because the news reported - and the tone - was a blend of optimism and alarm that you do not often hear. On the one hand, we...

Covid Communications Coordinator!

Covid
I have worn a lot of hats at Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp. Most memorable being a vintage bucket hat, it was very cool. I’ve also worn warm hats and silly hats and many other kinds of hats. My personal favorite is a black five panel hat made from...

Covid-19 Update: 6 April 2021

Coronavirus
I’ve begun generally to think of this WebLog as my own personal Covid Journal - a place for ol’ DGr to work out his feelings about the uncertainty; to do a little planning; share hopes, dreams, and aspirations. A place where I can demonstrate... we'...

Covid-19 Update: 22 March 2021

Pandemics
One year ago was the beginning. The beginning of the pandemic and all the chaos that went with it. It’s been a rough year. It has been a rough year, but Crow navigated it as well as anyone, I think. We’ve turned our focus to renovation and upgrades...

2021 Covid Updates

Covid-19
Latest Weekly Update The (Final) Plan Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp is committed to keeping parents, campers, volunteers, donors, and friends up-to-date on our thinking and plans for summer, and how those plans may be influenced by Covid-19. This page...

The Plan: 2021 Camp Schedule

Hopes; Scheming & Dreaming
Hello friends! It has been a while. We’re hangin’ in there - keepin’ it real - and we hope you are, too. Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. ~ Ephesians 5: 15 - 16...

THE OATMILK WINTER CAMP

Winter Update
Winter Camp Update... I am lactose intolerant. Yet I love milk. Unsurprisingly this has caused some grief in my personal life. One day, after drinking a glass of milk, I asked my partner Josh, “Hey, when you drink milk does it hurt...

2020 Current Projects Report

Items We Need
Over the past few years, we've made great progress on our To Do list out at Crow, but as always - more to be done. There is always ongoing maintenance, but we wanted to highlight some of the big projects that will help to sustain Crow's ministry...

2020 Annual Report

General
Well folks: here it is! The Annual General Report! We'd love for you to flip through, take a look at the pics, and leave a comment. Despite everything that has happened, we're doing well out here at Crow in 2020. Camp Happened. Pre-...

Video on Memory Verse Program

Memory Verse Program
Do you want to win a two night retreat at camp for your church? Do you want to win a 50 dollar gift certificate to the tuck shop? Do you ALSO want incentive to memorize more scripture! Good, because you can accomplish those things by joining camps...

November Verses!

Memory Verses
It's a new month which means new verses! We are stoked to start another month of our new memorization program! Check out our previous post for the rules and other information

Book Club

Books
One of the consequences of being born in a Christian family is that I do not remember a time before Jesus. Jesus was like an older brother: he was part of the family before I was. I don’t remember when Jesus went from being “the way” to being “my...

Covid-19 Rental Practices

Pandemics
In the interests of ensuring adequate communication with all Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp rental guests, please read and review the below Covid-19 Rental Policy. This Policy was adapted specifically from the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Guidelines...

Memory Verse Program

Memory Verse Program
Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp is starting up a five month Memory Verse program from October 2020 to the end of February 2021. This is a program that everyone is able to participate in and has some pretty amazing prizes. The best part is that it keeps...

Meet Yin Liu

Meet the 2020 COLTS
Yin did COLTS back in 1990, and obviously had a lot more to learn, so lately the kind people at Crow have been letting her come back to do COLTS again -- ostensibly to instruct, but actually to learn more, as she follows the COLTS around in the...

Meet Stephanie Brouwer, iDoOP

Meet the 2020 COLTS
Steph Backpacking.jpeg I first showed up on the scene of Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp back when I was an intermediate camper at Outcamp (Crow 2) which I went to for a few years until I was old enough to go on the AGOT. Having grown up on a farm in the...

Update #14: 23 June 2020

Pandemics
2020 Summer Outdoor Programs Stephaknee.jpg Hey everyone, this is Stephanie here. Many of you might remember me as the Registrar, and others of you might also know that currently I’m the Interim Director of Outdoor Programs here at camp while Daniel...

Meet Mackenzie Schalk

Meet the 2020 COLTS
Mackenzie 1.jpeg Hey! My name is Mackenzie. I first came to camp as an intermediate camper in 2012 and loved the community and the outdoor focus. I continued to come as a camper for a few years and then came back in 2018 to cabin lead. God has...

Meet Logan Schroeder

Meet the 2020 COLTS
Logan (2).jpg Logan Schroeder... The Logan Schroeder is a curious creature. His natural life cycle includes hatching and early development in the wide open prairies, then later in his development, Logan moves toward the mountains to find his mate,...

Meet Lanea Schroeder

Meet the 2020 COLTS
Lanea.jpg Lanea here! A smidgen of my background: I spent my childhood romping in the cities and forests of Ukraine where my parents were missionaries. Always in the outdoors, I hiked my first mountain in Switzerland when I was...
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