Camp Bellevue

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At the end of March, we hosted a retreat for homeschool teens. This is the same group that our boys participate in every other week during the school year. We love having this group and seeing all their creative ideas for games and activities. Over the years, we’ve helped them with obstacle courses, trebuchets, a Mystery Dinner, and campfire meals. This year, we got to stage an arrest!

The theme was “The Persecuted Church,” and during the opening session, Rusty, Seyber, and Seyber’s brother played a little trick on the kids. Seyber is retired military and his brother is in the police force, so they dressed in their uniforms and came in and told the kids that Christians could no longer meet publicly or carry Bibles openly in Ecuador. They “arrested” the speaker and Rusty went around and confiscated all the kids’ Bibles. Of course none of this was actually true, it was all pre-arranged and meant to give the kids a little taste of what it’s like to practice your faith in a country where Christians are persecuted. We have a hard time really understanding what that’s like, especially if we’ve always known religious freedom.

Camp Bellevue is a lovely place for a wedding!

We are first and foremost a camp, not an official wedding venue, and as such, we can’t offer all the fancy and elegant trappings, but if you’re looking for rustic and simple, we can do that! We’ve hosted the occasional wedding over the years, and it’s always a joy to offer this space as an affordable option to young couples just starting out. Interested in what having your wedding or anniversary celebration at Camp Bellevue would entail? Just reach out with any questions.

And a hearty congratulations to Catalina and Jhonatan who tied the knot at the camp at the end of March!

Thank you to the group of pharmacy students and their professors from William Carey University who spent their spring break in early March helping us with a medical campaign. They saw over 400 patients in 5 days at 2 different locations, and did a simple kids program in both places as well!

And also — a big thank you to our local volunteers (not pictured unfortunately), who helped us make this week possible! Doctors, translators, a naturopath, an EMT, even a couple of medical students came alongside the U.S. team to complement their efforts. You are all an essential part of our medical missions. We couldn’t do it without you!

To see more photos of this week, please check out our Instagram page (link in the comments below).

Interested in being part of our next medical mission May 31-June 4? Contact us today!