Thursday, August 6, 2015

Wow, what a summer!  Most of you know that Drew's Babe Ruth All-Star team beat teams from around the Pacific Northwest to win Regionals and are now headed to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee to the Babe Ruth World Series.  They will be overmatched, but it will be a great experience for them and tons of fun!  For those interested in viewing the games, you can go to the Babe Ruth World Series website and they will be streaming all the games live.  They are in the Central Time Zone so adjust accordingly.  Drew will fly out Monday night with the team and Carole and Karina will fly out on Wednesday.  They will return on the 21st.  Johnny Bench will be speaking at the team banquet and they have several activities planned for the kids.  Camp continues on with 2 more weeks to go.  Next week is "Man Week" and then the last 4th-6th grade camp plus another backpacking camp and one more week of day camps.  Matt has one more work team left and then life should slow down.  Thanks so much for your prayers.  We will try to update with pictures from the World Series.



Tessa's 14th birthday picnic in the park in between games.



Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Scherrer Sidelight

Dear Family and Friends,
Thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement during this time of great adjustment.  We really like the area and are getting involved in various activities.  It still feels odd going to church where we don't know everyone, but that will come in time.  We know without a doubt that we are where God wants us at this time, but sure had a hard time keeping up with Him for a while!  
Molly on zipline.



Matt is keeping very busy overseeing the grounds/maintenance and medical aspects of camp.  He just finished planning the renovation of 2 bathrooms, the building of 2 new cabins and the building of a deck for our place.  A work team from Pennsylvania came out to do the work.  It was a very productive week and the finished projects look great!  Matt is just doing the last of the finishing work before camp begins in a few weeks.

In May we took a trip down to Wyoming to pick up Alaura from Frontier School of the Bible.  She enjoyed her first year and the knowledge she gained from her classes.  She plans on returning next fall to pursue a degree in Christian Education.  Her summer will be spent as a counselor here at Big Sky Bible Camp.  It will be nice to have her close by for the summer.  On the way to pick her up we were able to spend time with friends in Casper who took us to see the surrounding area.  The kids were excited to climb Independence Rock and play hide and seek in the ravines and caves on the top of it.  The original plan was to go on to Mount Rushmore, but we got stuck in the storms that hit the area.  Thanks to the Dooley Family who ended up with us at their house for a few days longer than planned!  We'll try again when we take Alaura back in August.  
Independence Rock, Wyoming
June promises to be a very busy month.  Guest groups will continue to come up to the weekend before camp starts.  Schools here end the middle of June, so camp begins on the 22nd.  WE start with high school week then go on to the special needs camps.  After that, traditional camps continue as well as day camps and the backpacking wilderness camps.  On top of all of that, Drew has made the league's All-Star team so we will be spending many weekends travelling to tournaments.  

And then there is the garden.  We might have gotten a tad enthusiastic at the prospect of being able to grow so many different things.  The process began by the pulling up of sod and went from there.  The garden is now planted with corn, snap peas, green beans, flat beans, red potatoes, russet potatoes, gourds, sunflowers, melon, pickling cucumbers, slicing cucumbers, zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, watermelon, pumpkins, tomatoes and a variety of peppers.  Needless to say, our garden is almost twice the size of our mobile home!



This month marks a celebration in our house.  Before we left Alaska we found out that Karina had fulfilled the Alaska requirements to graduate so she received her high school diploma this month. She is officially graduated, but will do a few extra classes this next year, possibly through Flathead Community College.  Congratulation Karina!  

A few prayer request-
1. Big Sky is in need of a few male counselors and an AV person.  If you know of anyone who might be interested, please let us know.

2. Our support is a bit low at this point. Some of our long time financial supporters are no longer able to continue.  Matt will be running some shifts with the ambulance service in Bigfork, so that will help.  We are praying that the garden and hunting seasons will be profitable.

Thank you for your prayers and support over the years.  We are excited to see God working in this new phase of our lives.  
In Christ,
The Matt Scherrer Family
501 McCaffery Rd.
Bigfork, Mt
59911
mcscherrer135@gmail.com

Monday, April 6, 2015

 Here are some pictures of the Bigfork area.  We are about 5 minutes from the area.  Bigfork is a resort community- quiet during the off season, but very crowded during the summer.  Flathead Lake is the largest fresh water body of water west of the Mississippi River.  It is 27 miles long and has over 200 miles of shoreline, mostly rocky, unfortunately.  We also included pictures of our new home.
North Shore of Flathead Lake.

Flathead Lake
Boy's Room
Shoreline of Bigfork, Montana
Flathead Lake





Girl's Room

Our Room




Sewing Room/ School Room



Entry Room/ Office Area/ Everything Else

Friday, March 27, 2015

Big Sky Bible Camp




It finally stopped raining long enough for us to get some pictures of our new home.  Big Sky Bible Camp is situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.  The valley is surrounded by mountain ranges on 3 sides with the lake at the end.  Glacier National Park sits to the north of us.  It is a farming/ranching community with a large Flathead Indian Reservation.  As we get out and about more, we'll be able to post more pictures of the area.

Our new home against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains.

Entrance into camp.

View from our back door.



Matt's new office- maintenance/woodshop.


Upstairs of the main office building.

Traber Chapel

Peterson Lake at camp.


Dining Hall/Kitchen


Sunday, March 15, 2015

Finally taking the time to update some pictures.  Our journey from Bakersfield, Ca. to Big Sky Bible Camp, Montana was full of visiting and adventure.  Even though it was a good time, we are happy to finally be settled in our new home and ministry.  We have been working hard painting the mobile home we now live in and unpacking. The pictures below are of a fascinating museum we visited outside of Portland, Oregon called the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum.  We spent hours looking at old planes, missiles and tons of other things.  One day wasn't enough to absorb all the history there.  Our kids especially enjoyed a simulated rocket launch and viewing all the WW II planes and items.  The highlight was being able to tour inside a B-17 bomber.  We'll put up pictures of the scenery here as soon as it stops raining and we can get some taken with the sun!  



Cockpit of a Japanese Zero

Spitfire

WW II German war plane

WW II German war plane

In front of B-17




Tail gunner of B-17

Cockpit of B-17



Spruce Goose