Author Archives: Leon Dawkins

Good Morning from Shamattawa! It’s a cool sunny morning here so far. The reality of us leaving is about to set in. This morning will be packing and cleaning. Teaching is done, we’ve said goodbye to many of the children, but I’m sure there will be quite a few coming this morning to see us [...]

Joy and her “Teen Break out session” It’s  a cloudy morning in  Shamattawa . No rain however. Last evening we were able to have our LAMP Pilot Steve Dreher visit us. He has a friend, a Pastor in California doing  Vacation Bible School there. We had our kids talk to there kids over the internet [...]

Today is Wednesday and we have a full day planned. Everyone is awake and ready to go. Breakfast today will be Famous Dave’s pancakes. We will be filling another 100 water balloons for the blanket toss again today. Besides the puppets, we have a skit planned for today which we will try to include a [...]

Good Morning from Shamattawa. This will be a short posting for now, more will follow later. Leon’s laptop computer crashed this morning and we have not resolved the problem. Most of the photos from yesterday are on the hard drive and we have not been able to get at them. I am now using Jessica’s [...]

Whew!!  We finished day two of VBS. Today we had 91 kids that came to our session from 1:00- 3:30 or so. The Dave in the morning show on 96.5 Fm Shamattawa must have some listeners. Many of the kids told us they heard Dave on the radio this morning advertising for the Vacation Bible [...]

Sunday morning was beautiful here in Shamattawa, it was cool maybe in the 50′s or so. Many of the team members spent the morning outside playing with the kids. We were not sure until 11:00 or so whether or not we would be able to be indoors or outside as we did not yet have [...]

We left about 7:00 AM this  from Grand Rapids Manitoba, driving to Thompson by 10:30 and to the airport in Thompson by 11:15. The plane left for Shamattawa at 12:15 , in the air for about 1 hr.  We caught a ride from Vincent, a guy we met two years ago, who got us lined [...]

Thanks for visiting our Blog. We (The Shamattawa Team) will be traveling Friday July 22nd from Fergus Falls to Grand Rapids Manitoba, where we will stay overnight at the Anglican Church (on the floor). Early Saturday morning July 23rd we drive from Grand Rapids to Thompson Manitoba, where we then will travel by plane to [...]

It’s another beautiful morning in Shamattwa, the town is quiet and so is our apartment here in the teacherage.  Most were up quite late last night. It’s 7:00 AM . This morning we will need to pack up and be ready to fly out before we go to Vacation Bible Scool, as we will have [...]

It’s a beautiful Morning in Shamattawa today! Yesterday was an eventful day, by the time the last light went out here in Shamattawa, all five of us were exhausted. Today is a new day in the Lord we are anxious to see just what is store for us. An update on the condition of the [...]