A Time To Re Connect

Meet the cooks! Corine Brown - Verna Orlesky- Shirley Vise These special ladies that helped us pack on a few pounds the week during campout. They are very dear friends. The one in the middle ( Verna Orlesky), lost her husband not long after we lost mom. And he was so special to all of us. The campout just after we lost mom, he was in the hospital loseing his battle with cancer. His story had been an awsome witness of one of God's mighty miracles of healing. Many people had been affected by what the Lord was doing in his life. He was a very important, key part of the life of campout, and one on the board. Those of us on the board, (and wives) had gone in to the hospital to spend time with him, seeing he couldn't come to us. I stood by his side the whole time and hung onto his hand, very tightly. I knew we were loseing him, and I didn't want to. We had our "camp meeting" right there beside him, and sang. We all cried, and just kept singing. God took him home right after campout that week.


Jack and Ella Sailor. Ella was a legal secretary and Jack was a police detective but after the Sutera Twins Revival in 1971, they came to Caronport where we first knew them. We met them again when they were missionaries in the Yukon, in Dawson City, where he pastored the little evangelical church. . Ella is now an author, and women's speaker. They have a "prayer - counseling ministry". Ralph Sutera invited them to come to our little camp to help in the ministry of the prayer room.


Joyce Dennis, my very special friend and singing partner in the life of Camp Out. Our voices blend like the 3 Smith sisters, like we have been singing for years, but really haven't. We became known as the "Song Birds". That was after the one summer of three of us women singing, in a trio. Her husband Steve in one of the "mighty warriors" of the Camp Board. Verna Orlesky and her late husband John were on the camp board. She never missed a camp as the cook, even after John passed away right after Camp Out, that summer a couple years ago. Verna is getting alittle TLC (tender loving care), outside of the kitchen.


Liz and Nellie. Liz became a very dear friend to me while in Thorhild. Last summer the Sutera Twins helped her gain assurance of salvation, and grow in her christian faith.

Nellie, a dear, sweet supporter to us during our ministry in Thorhild. One of the remaining older Christian ladies of the Thorhild Living Gospel Fellowship Church.