Big Sky Boy's Camp!

Our second week at Big Sky featured all boys at "All Boy's Week!" We had a great time with 52 boys and staff. Here's a few pics! 8 boys received Christ! Praise the Lord!

Old "What's His Name", teaching a lesson.

Riding the fun noodle! How many can you get on it?

A Bible lesson with Jeff!

Cannon Balls! A boy's camp requirement!

Ready, set......

BLOW!

Worshipping in song with gratitude in our hearts!!

Back to Camp!

On our return from Illinois we immediately headed out to Bigsky Bible Camp for 2 1/2 more weeks of camp. This is the camp that our daughter Kristine and her fiance Thomas Rogers are working at all summer. Brett volunteered last fall to fill in as director for a few weeks since the new director won't be arriving until September. Here are some photos of the Jr. High Week! And a short video!

We leave no goofy game unplayed! Wear your balloons with pride!

The despicable "Pinky" gang!

Thomas loads a marshmallow flinger!

Kristine directed the ropes course many weeks this summer!

Yep, what can we say? Camp life is hard!

Nothing like a ride on the giant slip-n-slide

The Move!

On the 18th of July the Montana Belleques made a valiant attempt to move to Illinois. Unfortunately upon arriving we discovered that we would be unable to move into our temporary rental. So we moved into a storage unit, got some business done and drove back to Montana! All in one week! However we are happy to report that the house we have been attempting to purchase (waiting for the sale of our Montana home) was made available for us to rent until the time comes that we can purchase it! So on the 16th of August we will be moving permanently to our new home in Mt. Morris, Illinois. Here are some photos of our quick trip! We did take two hours to stop and visit Mt. Rushmore (one of Andrews favorite places!) on the way home!

Loaded and Ready to Go!

Sam was the navigator!

Our new home away from home!

(we actually filled two!)

Sam got a good workout!

Cindy expresses all our feelings!

Almost done!

Victory is ours!

We took an afternoon to look around our new home!

This is Blackfoot the Indian! Who looks out over the valley!

The Rock River Valley! Not bad!!

A swimming pool at the motel on the way home was a necessity!

Mt. Rushmore is one of our favorite places to visit.

Andrew loves the presidents!

Why so somber guys??

We even found our new state flag!

Week Two

From Bigfork in Western Montana we proceeded to another one of our favorite camps, Camp Lewtana in Lewistown in Eastern Montana where we joined missionaries Rob and Joni Odermann and Justin and Rose Antonich for two camps cramed into one week! We had a great time with both boys and girls camp!! There were over 15 decisions for Christ! That's why the staff is smiling!!

The happy staff at Lewtana Bible Camp!

The cabin leaders helping out with the evening service!

Rose Antonich - Camp director of girl's camp!!

Rose not only directed camp but she also watched a toddler and is pregnant!

So you wanna go back to Egypt? Presented by our

puppet team who were able to join us for a few days!

A tragic balloon accident. The dangers of being camp pastor!

The ultimate prayer warrior battles some evil forces!

Singing sheep!

We learned to let God be who He is and not try to put

Him in a box!!

The team shared a couple of cool black lite numbers!

We had daily visits from Flatman and Bobbin!

The three Amigos guitar choir!

A lesson on the parable of the soils! I don't think this young lady liked

being the thorny ground!

A little fun with windbags!

Week One!

Our summer ministries began at Big Sky Bible Camp where Brett was the special speaker and a trainer for Counselor training week. God blessed us with a real Montana snowstorm on Tuesday and by Wednesday morning we had four inches of snow on the ground. And it was gone by Friday! This was not our first summer snow in Montana but it will be a memorable one! Here are some photos of camp and some unique snow shots!

Our future son-in-law Thomas and his giant snow ball!

No part of our car was spared from the snow!

The happy frozen couple!

Yes we had canoeing, snorkeling and swimming scheduled that day!

Look at that beautiful green grass mixed with the snow!!

No tether balls were harmed in the making of this blog!

This is the new CL Trading Post soon to be housing offices,

Craft areas and the camp store!! The carpet arrived on Friday!

Of course by the end of the week the low elevation snow was gone

and God sent us a reminder of just who is in charge! Please remember to pray for the staff

at Big Sky Bible Camp including our daughter Kristine and her fiance Thomas.

Pray for strength and wisdom as the camp reaches out to hundreds of kids from Montana!