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LONG TIME WILDERNESS FRIENDS SHARE TESTIMONIES
Fourteen years ago, I took my first group of students to The Wilderness. Since that time over three hundred students have wandered the trails, paddled the lakes, and slid down the hills. We have been truly blessed by the staff, first by Dick and his wife, and now by Randy and his family. These are the people that God has given a special gift to provide for others. That has been especially evident with the building of the prayer cabins. Our school has again been blessed by helping with small projects in the construction of these facilities. I can't begin to relate all the changes in lives that have begun through chapels and experiences directly related to The Wilderness Fellowship. We have seen the Chapel (Fellowship Center) change over these years and what a blessing it will be to see it in its completed form. It is truly holy ground.
Volleyball, canoeing, hiking, camping, fishing, skiing, hayrides (winter and summer), working, and a lot of just plain having fun have been part of our experiences over these years. These are all great and will continue to be. But the most important aspect that has kept us coming back for all these years is God's presence there. Even as I write this I can feel His Spirit that is so evident at Wilderness Fellowship. How meaningful are the words that this camp was founded under "I will take my children into the wilderness, and there I will speak tenderly to them"-Hosea 2:14. This has been our experience for fourteen years.
Dennis Martin
Dean of Students, Christian Life School
It's been over twenty years since we were first introduced to The Wilderness. In those early years our family was involved in youth ministry and spent many days and weeks with teenagers who were struggling as they approached adulthood. The Wilderness provided a place for those growth opportunities to occur.
Over the past 25 years more than 70 teenagers became a part of our family and as a result, a part of The Wilderness as well. Our finances were often limited but still The Wilderness allowed a huge family like ours to come and have a place to rest and play. Each year, just after Christmas, all twelve of us and some additional friends, would toboggan into the Log Cabin. There as a family we played, cross-country skied, went sliding, read books and made igloos, even sleeping out in them. It was a place where we learned to work together. Christmas at the Log cabin became a tradition. It is a special place where we can bring people to share the gift of hope, family and that peace that is possible when a family is grounded in Christ's love.
Those seasons with the children have come and gone. It will no longer be our children who run and play in the snow of The Wilderness or paddle canoes looking for frogs and turtles in the "Cheerio" pond. It will be our grandchildren. There are many places families can go, but at The Wilderness the love for God and neighbor is at the very core of those who live and work there. That is why we keep coming back. Come to The Wilderness…
Greg and Diane Olson
Champlin, MN
As a Christian counselor, I’m grateful for a ministry like TWF, which offers a prayer-covered place of retreat, where people in pain and difficulty can go to seek an intimate and undistracted encounter with the Lord. I have recommended the prayer cabins to numerous people in such times of need, and have seen evidence of the Lord’s response -- providing a time of spiritual refreshment or encouragement, and sometimes the delivery of a healing truth in just the right way, and to just the internal place where it is most needed.
L.H.
Journal Notes
Once again God has met us individually and melded us as a couple here in this precious place. Our spirits are refreshed, our vision more clearly focused and our hearts thrilled with having had the opportunity to saturate in His presence. There is no other place we know that "fosters Godly intimacy" and no other organized as this.
I thank God for this place, these His people, and the ministry this is. We read Psalm 33 this A.M. We depart with this word and leave this harbor to other weary travelers. Our hope is in Him and pray you will find the peace of His arms around you, through you and carrying you into your further journey.
In His Joy,
R & R D
Timothy Prayer Cabin Journal
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