The Flower Room

       At Turtle Mountain Bible Camp in southern Manitoba, my work partner, Joy Rothfuss, and I worked on an interesting project during the month of May. The camp has been given a fabulous donation. One day after a kids' camp, a ten-year-old camper who had heard of the camp's needs said to his mother "We could help the camp." The mom had had an event planner business, but unforeseen circumstances forced her to give it up. Thousands of dollars of inventory were donated to the camp. 

Before all the boxes were unpacked

    Our job was to sort through and take inventory of silk flowers, hundreds of different shaped vases, candles and tea lights of various kinds, and seasonal and decorative decor. There were also tablecloths and napkins in various colours. 

Joy adding to the inventory

Counting tablecloths in the furnace room

The immediate challenge was to count items, store them and display the flowers so that those planning an event, like a wedding, would be able to see it immediately without searching through boxes and boxes. 

    Camp director, Kathy, had an ingenious idea for displaying the many silk bouquets. Sections of PVC pipe cut on an angle [the men helped with this step] were fastened  to the wall in a corner of a room filled with air ducts. Filled with bunches of flowers, the space was transformed into a kind of flower shop. All we needed next was a diffuser filled with a floral essential oil, like "Rose"! 

     Because of a busy summer schedule, the camp isn't exactly going to advertise this bounty, but I'm sure the word will get around. Already one wedding is scheduled for a Tuesday right after a camp ends. 

"For the LORD is God, and he created the heavens and earth and put everything in place. Isaiah 45:18

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace...I Corinthians 14:33

Turtle Mountain Bible Camp

 We're at Turtle Mountain Bible Camp to check it out as new area reps for western Canada.  It's great to be on a project, and still be in Canada!

We wondered where the mountain was, but found out it was a low mountain range, slight rises in the landform, like the low backs of turtles. 

One of my jobs was taking inventory of tablecloths and other banquet paraphernalia. No, that's not a super-tidy storage room, but a brand new furnace room.

Terry and his work partner put molding around some windows, and added metal protectors around columns.

The main building is new--beautiful and multipurpose

When we arrived, there were still patches of snow, and tree limbs everywhere from the previous ice storm. It's too dry to have ice break tree limbs in Alberta.

 Now the snow is gone, and Partridge Lake, which this building faces, is open.

It was still a little difficult to hike in places.

Big event on Saturday--a town wide garage sale. We followed a map and drove from house to house to house all morning.. Terry was so patient. Here's my best find, a lightweight down coat.  I'd wanted one for a while.

The other best find was the motor part of a food processor, exactly like mine at home, which had quit working. And it was FREE! The seller was so glad I took it off her hands! And I was so glad to find it. The Lord certainly does provide. 

Since these pictures, the sun has come out on some days.

A baby turtle, its back only as big as a quarter (25 cent piece), showed up in the basement of the main building. It was returned to the Lake the next day.

Southern Manitoba is fascinating.