A Fun Way to Spend a Weekend with Friends!

Long before we could have ever imagined in our wildest dreams becoming missionaries with World Impact, we volunteered  at THE OAKS for several years.  Those were some of our most favorites days!  We even came up with our church’s middle school families who loved it so much they came up each year for several subsequent years. 

We continue to have various groups come up to volunteer.  We feel deeply thankful for their wonderful service to the camp.  We are also greatly encouraged to hear of the enjoyment and fun they have as a group as well as how they grew closer together while serving.

In March, Paul worked with the Biola women's soccer team over a service weekend.  They were amazing - those strong and fit athletes worked hard.  But even more exciting for us was the report their coach gave.   She had  seen the first part of THE OAKS mission statement, “Changed Lives”.  She said, “I had looked at your website prior to our trip.  It talked about changed lives. When sharing about the weekend, the girls shared about how much their lives had been touched and changed by coming to serve together.”

 

Three months later (in June) I received an email from the coach who said, "The girls repeatedly bring up the team growth that occurred".  It is such a joy for us to see others experiencing the joy of serving as well as the personal and group growth that occurs when working together.

If you have a school or church group or just a few friends that would like to come serve, service retreats can be designed to fit your group and can include team building, ropes course, adventure activities and more.  Please contact us at meitysix@gmail.com or pmeitler@gmail.com .