Camp has begun- Full speed ahead!

Things here at Wyoba are in full swing! The kitchen is cooking, people are working, and we are full-speed ahead!

The Food Truck has arrived!

The kitchen has food!

This week Wyoba is hosting Camp Hope at diabetic camp for kids. Camp Hope offers emotional and psychological support to these young individuals to prepare them to live with diabetes. It is a unique opportunity to cater to their needs through fun, activities, and camaraderie in a camp setting.

A special thanks to Candi and Cathy from Bethel Baptist in Casper for coming up this week to wash and make the floors in the dining hall sparkle! 

I anticipate a busy week here on Casper Mountain. Please continue to keep us in your prayers and let me know if you have time to donate to camp. We still have many projects that need to get underway. 

I hope that you are experiencing God's wonderful mercies this summer!

Blessings,
~Amber
Camp Administrator

Mattress Challenge

Dear friends,

 

This message is a personal note, not as a Wyoba board member.  

Bethel Baptist has been offered a challenge to replace the mattresses in the cabins at Wyoba.  Those we presently are using are in poor shape.  A resource has been located where sturdy mattresses may be purchased for about $45.00 each.  When the challenge was presented to Bethel members on Sunday, pledges were made for almost 50 of the mattresses THAT DAY! God is good and encourages us with his amazing provision. 

 

How about joining us in this challenge?  Price of a mattress is about the same as two meals after church on Sunday in a restaurant. 

 

To participate, just let us know at Bethel and we will order the mattresses.  There are 100 mattresses needing replacement.  We can do this before the end of the season!  Join us!

 

In His Love,

Barbara Vinzant

vee3@aol.com 

Hole in the wall improvement

Once upon a time...there was a nasty hole in the wall under the sink in the dish-room...

This hole did not make the Health Department happy, so it needed to get fixed.

The hole after some drywall.

The wall after some wall-cement.

This was a corner of the wall that was looking nasty and needed some help too.

The hole is now no more!

After some cement and paint!

The pretty corner!

The final product and the Health Department will now be happy! :) 

The End!

More before and after pictures

Goodbye old carpet!

Getting ready to replace some cracked tile

Finished product!

Fox Bedroom Before

Before

After!

Before

After

Opening Weekend

Howdy!

We have been making some improvements here at Camp Wyoba. We have gotten rid of old furniture and wood, tiled and paneled Fox and Bailey, painted the floors in Hamm and the bathhouses, replaced a water heater in the Nurse's Cabin, did some landscaping, and have been working on getting this place ready for the season. Here are some pictures to share from this past week of work. There is still lots of work to be done so if you have any spare time that you could donate to the camp, your serve to Christ would be much appreciated! We have projects for all ages and skills!

Linda Shearer painting the boys bathhouse

Parking lot before

Burn Baby Burn!

Parking lot after!

Bailey before panel

Bailey after panel!

Doug from Gillette chain sawing

Mike from Rawlins working on the Nurse's Cabin

Dave Shearer working on the picnic tables

Bill and Maggie from Laramie working on Turner

The great work of Rick Bishop

Deanna working on the girls cabins

Cookin' lunch!

Lunch time!

Bill, John, and Carl painting Hamm

The Opening Weekend crew represented: Gillette FBC, Rawlins FBC, Bethel Baptist Casper, Douglas FBC, Glenrock FBC, Laramie FBC, Denver Regional Office, and Cambridge Springs, PA FBC.

A BIG thank you to everyone who came out to help this weekend!

Needs for Camp Wyoba

Dear Friends and Family of Camp Wyoba,

I want to cordially invite you to attend our camp opening, if you are not already coming or aware of it. It is June 1-2, Friday and Saturday. We will be opening and cleaning cabins, as well as trying to get some projects under way.

I also wanted to let you of some needs that the camp currently has. There are some items that we are looking for and some projects that really need attention. If you and/or your church could help out and pass on the word in your bulletin or to others, it would be deeply appreciated. Please let me know if you or your church would be interested in donating any of these items or money toward them. These projects are just a few amongst many that could easily be done by families, youth groups, or individuals willing to donate some time to the camp. Projects are available at any time over the course of the summer and any time donated is a blessing.

Items Needed:

-Lightly used couches (for staff cabins)

-Lightly used lounge chairs (for staff cabins)

-New Vacuum (for carpets)

-Heavy duty door mats (for outside cabin doors)

-24" wide leaf rake

-Heavy duty wheelbarrow (single tire)

-New kitchen knife set

Projects:

-Re-build/fix property fences

-Cut firewood

-Gravel driveways

-Digging out ditches

-Collecting rocks for landscape

-Rebuilding outdoor fire ring benches (the one in the woods)

If you have any questions or are able to help out in any of these areas, please feel free to contact me and spread the word. I look forward to a wonderful camp season and serving at Camp Wyoba this summer! 

Blessings to you,

~Amber Shearer

Camp Wyoba Administrator

307-234-6240

Start of the Camp Season

Howdy All!

This is Amber Shearer the new Camp Wyoba Administrator reporting live from Casper Mountain. I am currently at camp and we are opening up for the season. Zach and Hannah Fuhriman are here helping me learn the ropes and getting things ready. So far we have got most of the water on. The septic tank was sucked out this morning and is in working order. We are now patching a few broken pipes and in theory should be done and good to go shortly.

Last night we got about 6 inches of snow or better! We do need the moisture up here already but it definitely came as a surprise. It is melting this afternoon and hopefully we can continue to get projects done.

Tomorrow my parents, Dave and Linda Shearer are coming all the way from Pennsylvania to get some projects under way. We will be tiling Bailey and Fox cabins, putting up paneling and a new toilet in Bailey, fixing picnic tables, doing some painting and other odds and ends.

Opening weekend is June 1-2! Please spread the word and bring a friend! We have lots of projects to do that need to get done before camp opens! Hope to see you there!

Please feel free to call me with any questions at 307-234-6240.

Tune in next time for more Wyoba updates...