Rock Talk - Our Cairn Newsletter

Rock Talk Video - May 2007

Here's the Video Edition for May!
It features photos from the Staff Weekends in April and May and also some shots of our intrepid Spring Staff.
Sit back, put on your favourite camp music and enjoy...

Rock Talk - May 2007

The full edition of the May Newsletter is now available!
Download rock_talk_may_2007.pdf

Enjoy!

Circle of Song

Each Spring, Cairn hosts a celebration of music in Baysville called “Circle of Song”. Choirs from across the Synod are invited to spend a Saturday at camp, share some favourite music and learn some great, new camp songs. Saturday, June 9^th is Cairn’s 3^rd Annual Circle of Song – and it’s sure to be great.

If you would like to register your choir, or get more information about this event, please call the camp office. 705.767.3300

Jr. High Retreat

Calling all Jr. High Youth Groups!

We are so thrilled to offer a Jr. High Retreat again this year. Camp is always most alive when it is filled with young people having fun. The Jr. High Retreat runs from Friday evening, June 15^th – Sunday afternoon, June 17^th, and is open those in grades 6-8. Bring your Jr. High Youth Group to camp and enjoy all the fantastic summer activities. Leaders who accompany the groups will get to watch their young people take risks, get to know each other, learn about God and experience the great outdoors in Muskoka. There will also be some networking and relaxation opportunities for the Youth Group Leaders when our great camp leaders offer programming for all the young people. This event is filling quickly, so please call camp to register your group and reserve your spots.

 

Great Moments - May

Great Moments for this month:

• Wonk is doing some amazing photography.
• Matchy is a newly minted University of Waterloo Grad.
• Lami is getting married in August!
• Kiwi and Keeg graduated from Niagara College.
• T-Ba is off to New Zealand for Teacher’s College in June.
• Chayko is also going to Teacher’s College.
• Pryzm is in El Salvador and Guatemala doing Mission Work for the spring.
• Cheers will shortly be traveling in Europe.
• Plake just graduated as an RCMP Officer!
• Nam is heading back to Ontario after finishing her Ph. D studies in Arizona.

Send your Great Moments to: taps@ilovecamp.org

April Staff Weekend

The Summer Staff of the Glen Mhor and Iona Programmes descended on St. Andrew’s Port Credit over the last weekend in April to spend the weekend playing and laughing and getting to know one another. We slept at the Church overnight and led the worship service the next morning, which was a blast!

The theme of the service was “Hands”, and many of the Cairn Staff members got to use their hands and share their talents during the service. Iscus played “Moses” (yes, that Moses) and talked about using his hands to wield his staff and lead his people out of Egypt. Abrigo, Zoic, Diz, Guyver and Dolce all used their hands to make fantastic music during the service. Fi-ra and Fhyllja both performed beautifully with a dance and a song, respectively. The rest of the staff was kept very busy with singing, clapping, reading scripture, passing the Peace of Christ and letting their awesome out.

We would like to thank St.Andrew’s Port Credit for their amazing hospitality. We were welcomed to the Church with open arms, and treated to a home-cooked lunch after the service. We truly appreciate the congregations’ willingness to allow 50 young people to take over their Church for a weekend.

In related news, a very large contingent of future Church leaders was discovered sleeping on the floor of a Church in Mississauga on April 28^th. Anyone wishing to make use of these incredible people should speak with their local Cairn Staff Member (aka “Amazing Person”).

You can have them back in September. We promise.

Flickr Pic of the Month - May

Each month, Rock Talk will feature a great picture from the Cairn Flickr Group.

This photo was taken during the games on Saturday April 28^th. Many of our staff members for 2007 gathered at St. Andrew’s Port Credit in Mississauga for the annual “April Weekend”. Thanks to Zoic for the shot, and the staff for their willingness to play.

Join the Cairn Flickr Group – and be eligible to win the Flickr Pic of the Month

Cairn on the Internet

In order to run 5 separate camping programmes all at the same time, the Cairn Directors use many resources on the internet. The internet is instant, inexpensive, good for the environment and world-wide.

Here are some tools we use and places we go online. All of these places are free to visit and use.

• Cairn website - www.ilovecamp.org
• Flickr – online photo storage – www.flickr.com
• AirSet – online group calendars – www.airset.com
• Gmail – a great e-mail client – www.gmail.com
• Google Docs – online word and spreadsheet manager – docs.google.com
• Google Reader – RSS Reader – reader.google.com
• Bloglines – RSS Reader – www.bloglines.com
• Jumpcut – online tool for editing videos and slideshows – www.jumpcut.com
• Firefox – web browser – www.firefox.com

Thank you to Harry de Valence (August 2007 LIT) for reminding us to include Firefox in this list. Firefox is a great web browser that we use on every camp computer.

If there’s an internet service we should be using, let us know! We love to try to stay on the cutting edge.