Salmon Stryker
02-06-2005, 10:07 PM
I haven't always been an active participant of this board because I don't really like to argue or debate religion. I think it is deeply personal, much better to discuss face to face...and I don't even really like to relate to people over the internet or in email. But I have really enjoyed this board and it has been great getting to know some of you guys through your posts.
God has taken me on an awesome adventure this past year. It would take me all night to tell you things I've learned and the stuff that He has revealed to me. He is so real and His offer is so great!
This adventure started last year with reading the book "Wild at Heart" by John Eldredge. I'd been a christian my whole life and thought I had heard it all but this book really awakened something in me. I read it twice. But I couldn't get enough...I wanted to go deeper.
So I signed up for a "Wild at Heart" boot camp (retreat) put on by John Eldredge and his team. I flew to Colorado by myself to attend this thing with a bunch of other men I'd never met. If you guy's new me you would know how totally out of character that is for me...but it wasn't me alone...it was me following God's lead for maybe the first time in my adult life. The retreat was completely awesome. The message though biblical was like nothing I had ever heard in church or in christian high school or in christian college. It was thankfully free of "religiousness" or "churchianity" or laws or rules to live by or some principles to apply to my life. It was about freedom, about life and about getting back the life that God designed for us. Getting back my heart fully restored. I'm telling you gentlemen the offer is so real. Christ came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free...to restore us and release us.
Through the boot camp I attended in Colorado I met some really great guys who live up in the Vancouver area. They have been to several Wild at Heart camps and have been to the training where Eldredge teaches them how to teach the WAH message. I've met with these guys and they really have a passion for the men of the northwest to hear this message and come alive.
Last summer they pulled off the first "Boot Camp Northwest" on a small scale. This year they are doing one April 28th though May 1st. They are still hoping for some more people to sign up to attend so I thought I would extend the invitation to the good men of this board. The camp is going to be held at Wildhorse Canyon Young Life Ranch in Antelope, Oregon. The cost is like $275. There is discounts for large groups of 10 or more. If you can swing it I would encourage you to attend. I spent $700+ to fly to Colorado and hear this message and I thought it was a bargain. I know it is during springer season but the camp is right along the John Day and teeming with smallmouth. The country over there is absolutely gorgeous. You will not regret attending I promise.
For more information you can email or pm me or check out www.bootcampnw.com (http://www.bootcampnw.com) on the web. I can send you a brochure and registration form or you can download one off the web site.
I would really love to meet some of you there. :wink:
God has taken me on an awesome adventure this past year. It would take me all night to tell you things I've learned and the stuff that He has revealed to me. He is so real and His offer is so great!
This adventure started last year with reading the book "Wild at Heart" by John Eldredge. I'd been a christian my whole life and thought I had heard it all but this book really awakened something in me. I read it twice. But I couldn't get enough...I wanted to go deeper.
So I signed up for a "Wild at Heart" boot camp (retreat) put on by John Eldredge and his team. I flew to Colorado by myself to attend this thing with a bunch of other men I'd never met. If you guy's new me you would know how totally out of character that is for me...but it wasn't me alone...it was me following God's lead for maybe the first time in my adult life. The retreat was completely awesome. The message though biblical was like nothing I had ever heard in church or in christian high school or in christian college. It was thankfully free of "religiousness" or "churchianity" or laws or rules to live by or some principles to apply to my life. It was about freedom, about life and about getting back the life that God designed for us. Getting back my heart fully restored. I'm telling you gentlemen the offer is so real. Christ came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free...to restore us and release us.
Through the boot camp I attended in Colorado I met some really great guys who live up in the Vancouver area. They have been to several Wild at Heart camps and have been to the training where Eldredge teaches them how to teach the WAH message. I've met with these guys and they really have a passion for the men of the northwest to hear this message and come alive.
Last summer they pulled off the first "Boot Camp Northwest" on a small scale. This year they are doing one April 28th though May 1st. They are still hoping for some more people to sign up to attend so I thought I would extend the invitation to the good men of this board. The camp is going to be held at Wildhorse Canyon Young Life Ranch in Antelope, Oregon. The cost is like $275. There is discounts for large groups of 10 or more. If you can swing it I would encourage you to attend. I spent $700+ to fly to Colorado and hear this message and I thought it was a bargain. I know it is during springer season but the camp is right along the John Day and teeming with smallmouth. The country over there is absolutely gorgeous. You will not regret attending I promise.
For more information you can email or pm me or check out www.bootcampnw.com (http://www.bootcampnw.com) on the web. I can send you a brochure and registration form or you can download one off the web site.
I would really love to meet some of you there. :wink: