Camp Cross

Chase Shields • December 1st, 2008

After stomping twice, over 200 leaders from around the Diocese chanted together, “I’m going to Camp Cross, and you’re coming too!” The next day, clergy and lay people from Grangeville to Oroville, from the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist to the Episcopal Churches of the Resurrection, wore badges to the closing Eucharist of Diocesan [...]

Chase Shields • June 1st, 2008

I’m not sure anyone saw the guy who won Spokane’s Bloomsday race quite as many times as I did. Standing on the corner of Broadway and Oak, cheering at the top of my lungs, I could see that tall Kenyan in the eyes of every boy and girl who looked up at me, heard my [...]

Chase Shields • March 1st, 2008

Our greatest service to young people is to teach them to be “good architects of their internal homes,” emphasized Mark Andrus, Bishop of California, at the recent Episcopal Camps and Conference Centers’ annual conference. In the spirit of Lenten reflection, therefore, let’s look at how Camp Cross helps youth develop internal homes to help them [...]

evitak • May 1st, 2007

Do you remember setting out a new welcome mat with the fresh message to convey invita­tion and welcome into your home? People cross that thresh­old as they come and go, to and from your place of welcome.
Time passes on. The mes­sage is the same, WELCOME, and yet the mat ceases to function as originally designed. [...]

evitak • February 1st, 2007

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the [...]