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Today marked our last full day in North Dakota but it has also been a day shaped by mixed feelings: the excitement of being home and the sadness of our goodbyes. We have made friends here: I have new friends in Rev John and his wife Rev Sloane Floberg; Ben, Justis and Mohammed have also made friends with Isaiah [...]

We felt the absence of the campers last night. Entire camp was quiet and calm. We jumped in the pool upon our return to the camp from Bismarck and then retired to bed. We cleaned out buy viagra online uk the boys and girls cabin and then drove to Bismarck to visit a museum. We [...]

Late last night we learned of heat advisory for the area where the camp is located and other surrounding areas including Bismarck. Consequently we had to close camp early today and get the kids back to their homes because the viagra canadian pharmacy online camp doesn’t have airconditioned rooms. But before camp closed, we gathered [...]

Today was such a wonderful day! Its been a while since I saw a bunch of middle and high school students have so much fun. The day began with an open-air prayer session which was coupled with announcements. After prayer we had breakfast which was biscuits, gravy, scrambled eggs, bananas, yoghurt and orange juice. The [...]

Camp Gabriel began this afternoon. I drove up to Fort Yates early in the morning because I had to begin picking the kids up at 10:00am local time. I joined up with Rev Terry Star and drove around the reservation picking kids at their homes. When all the three vans arrived at Camp Gabriel, there [...]

We woke up early this morning to continue with our cleaning projects. Mohammed fixed us a sumptuous breakfast: Iraqi omelette, which we ate with toast and cereal. Ben said the grace over our breakfast. We swept the chapel and then mopped the floor, wiped the chairs and cleaned out the altar. The restrooms were our [...]

When returned from Bismarck late last night but we had to be up early to clean up and get ready for church. We had a simple breakfast and then drove to church at Fort Yates Indian Reservation. I celebrated and Michael preached. Michael’s sermon touched on the work for which he has been driving around [...]

We woke up this morning to a wonderful home-made pancakes fixed by Michael. Michael is a seminarian at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. He has so far driven about 8500 miles from Texas to Georgia, Washington DC, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Indiana and Minnesota. He is now in South Dakota for viagra online canadian [...]

Ben, Justis, Mohammed and I flew out of Philadelphia this morning to North Dakota. We first flew to Minneapolis, MN where were connected with another flight to Bismarck, ND. On our way to terminal A to catch our flight, someone shouted Mohammed’s name. Mohammed turned, walked towards these two gentlemen who were about to enjoy their breakfast. Mohammed immediately recognized them [...]

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