This is the Winter edition of the prayer letter of Hugh and Carol Hamp. They are missionaries with Worldwide Ministries and work with First Nations children and teens, and seniors. If you wish to receive this update on a regular basis, please contact them at one of the above addresses, and they would be pleased to send you a personal copy of future issues.

Today we ordered "Smoky Trail Camp" tee shirts. More than 300 in sizes from small to XX Large. Enough for our campers and staff for the next couple of years. This allows us to receive quantity pricing. Carol continues to purchase food for the camps. She has a food list and buys in large quantities as items come on special. We use the same menu each week. We continue to book conference opportunities to enlist staff and make new contacts with folk interested in helping at camp and/or sponsoring our campers. If you have connections that would assist us in meeting even more people, please give us a call.

You will find your CAMP SPONSORSHIP FORM FOR 2008 here. The camper sponsorship has not increased. The camper sponsorship includes a week camp, a tee shirt if registered by May 1, and our follow up Bible study program that we include with a camp contact letter four times a year. You receive a picture of your camper in the fall for whom you can pray. Since we lost a film disc with over 300 photos, we were scrambling in the fall for pictures. Therefore we may have inadvertently missed you, so please let us know.

Next week will find us in Toronto to attend a meeting with friends from Kirkland Lake to discuss the possibility of launching a third native camp in that area. For this to come to fruition will depend on the Lord's provision for an additional camp director for the camps. This expansion could begin as early as 2008 or possibly 2009, but we wait on His leading.

Following that we will be heading north. The first stop will be to attend our friends', David and Linda, "Stranger" course on Friday night in Nobel. Sunday will find us ministering in Mac Tier. Monday we travel through Sudbury to drop off "Stranger" material and then on to the Mississauga Reserve at Blind River to do the same. Finally we will attend the pastors' conference at Galilean Bible Camp before returning home on Wednesday.

You may wonder why a third camp. Our territory extends from Toronto to North Bay to Blind River to Windsor and Manitoulin Island. We would like to reposition our camps. Blind River and Bear Island in relation to Parry Sound is a huge distance. To locate a camp near Sudbury and in Kirkland Lake would allow us to cover our area more effectively. It would allow us to reach further west to Sault Ste. Marie and the reserves along Hwy #17, and farther east to include some of the reserves on the Quebec border. We travel great distances to evangelize in other countries. Unfortunately we bypass those on our own doorstep where barriers of language, time and travel are nearly non-existent. Going to our own reserves isn't exciting or adventurous, but work. God calls us to "the work of the ministry."

The "Stranger on the Road to Emmaus" outreach and evangelism training program will be running in five more locations before the end of February. We can help you get one started in your church. The children's program, "The Lamb" will be ready for Vacation Bible Schools and other children's outreach within two months. We already have the new teaching book in our hands and the video programs just have to be packaged for shipping.

News & Updates: Keep watching this page for the latest news, prayer requests, and new pictures of this summer's campers.

PRAISE

• for opportunity to have Child Evangelism Fellowship train staff for chapel next summer.

• for one of our experienced staff members, "Spike," already applying for the C.E.F. training.

• for good interest from last year's staff returning for this coming summer.

• for a number of opportunities to present the camp work in churches and conferences.

• for the provision of a snowplow so we are able to be mobile earlier in the day during winter.

• for posters that churches are displaying regarding the needs of the native camp ministry.

• for time spent with our grandchildren while in Carstairs.

• for a good rest and opportunities to minister during our vacation in Alberta.

PRAYER

• for a missionary to begin training to assume the position of directing Smoky Trail Camp.

• for others to become full time missionaries and camp workers with First Nation people.

• for God to prepare the hearts of the children to respond to His call of salvation this summer.

• for wisdom as we seek God's leading regarding a third camp, Camp Dorothy, near Kirkland Lake.

• for Pastor Bob & Jan Graham moving to North Bay to plant a First Nation church.

• continue to pray for permanent camp facilities. This is a long-standing request.

• for opportunities to present the camp work and minister in the Word this winter and spring.

• for those, Tom, Anne & Bruce seeking God's leading re coming on board in native ministry.

• for Ruth Ann as she has begun her native ministry at Oxford House.

• for Cindy, a young lady who is running from God. Pray that she would return home.

• for the possibility of travelling to the east coast to contact students at a Bible school.

• for Melodina our neighbour's teen with cancer awaiting a bone marrow transplant.

• for Carol & me travelling to Blind River to conference & setup "Stranger" courses.

  Itinerary can be viewed on our website by clicking here.

Jesus Christ challenges us in John 4:35 "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look at the fields; for they are white already to harvest. Matt 9:37-38 "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." Each one of us who calls him Lord is called to be a labourer. Will you respond by praying for the work, coming to assist at camp, or by providing for a child or a staff worker to come in your place?

Reaching Native Children for Jesus Christ,