Author Archives: Leon Dawkins

6:30 AM…… The weather is cloudy this morning in Shamattawa. It is quiet at the door. that will most likely change soon, as the children will be up and looking for us. Today we expect Steve Dreher, the LAMP pilot from Red Lake, to come today for a midweek visit. He will be flying into [...]

This is our second day teaching VBS in Shamattawa. We are excited about the day before us. Looking forward to more kids today as more find out about what the Vacation Bible School is all about. The teaching time today was very full of activity. We had a full classroom with 68 children from 2 [...]

One happy girl! Up early, gathered together to eat breakfast, this morning will be working on todays lesson review, checking with the Band office, putting Dave on the radio to advertise, getting our school room lined up for the weeks session. More to follow…………………………………………………….. Ok I’m back it’s about 5:00PM on Monday the rest of [...]

Sunday morning 7:02 AM in Shamattawa. We had  visitors last night. Our friend Howard Canabie and Daniel Redhead, who is a pastor at new church start here. They stopped by to welcome us and to get to know us again. The night was very late, we had our devotion and prayer time earlier, but still [...]

Today was a long day of driving for the five of us. Dave our fearless leader has driven the whole trip. We were up at 6:00 AM, glad to get up off the hard floor. Out the door of the church at 7:00 AM sharp. Stopped at the ESSO gas stop for a quick cup [...]

Left Fergus Falls on Friday morning 9:15 AM. Drove all the way to Grand Rapids Manitoba by about 9:00 PM. Stayed at the  St James Anglican church  in Grand Rapids, (on the floor, but thankful for a place to stay). This team heading to Shamattawa Manitoba consists of Sharlene and Jessica Schmidt, Dave Schneeberger, Leon [...]