We Welcome You...

Camp Sagitawa is so much fun! And right now we are in full gear, preparing for the summer of 2011. We hope you will be able to take part in the fun. Why not bring your friend, and plan to do camp together this summer?


Important Parent Info..

Please discuss applicable documents with children registered for camp this summer.

Brochure Locations..

We send a brochure to every camper who attended one of our programs within the last 2 years, and to each individual on our support list. We also leave our brochures in many places. Here is a list of the places we dropped them off this year...

General Region..

Fort St John, Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, Hudson's Hope, Ft Nelson, Mackenzie, and most towns in between. We also extend into Alberta as far east as Grande Prairie, and as far north as Sexsmith.

Brochures are found in most of the following..

Schools, churches, tourist information centers, town arenas, pools, libraries, service stations, places like the Ark Christian Center, Big Brothers-Big Sisters, Resource Societies, Friendship Centers, and Child Development Centers

We bring our brochures to..

Trade Shows, School visits, Climbing Wall rentals
Note that the SD#59 and SD#60 are both now permitting brochures to be available to students wanting them.

2011 Downloads..

Registration Forms:
Kids & Youth Summer Family Camps MCA Trip Spring Break Camps Single Parent Family Pushing the Limit
Posters Brochures:
Summer Brochure Spring Break Brochure
Posters:
Sagitawa Family Retreat Spring Break
Arrival Information
is located elsewhere. Follow the "Dates for Camp" left main menu link to the season of your choice, then look on the right bar for "Arrival Information".

What's New..

Mountain Bike Course
We are reworking the course from last summer to make a better track for various levels of bikers. Please note that the course is meant to be a mountain bike trail and not a BMX track.

Ride the Wild
The trip has changed... brought closer to the camp to use some safer available bike trails in the Chetwynd/ Moberly area.

Trail Ride Family Camp
Come to the Trail Ride camp with your family for the weekend!

Sagitawa Water Park
Yes, we want to put up a water climbing wall, a giant blob, fix the jungle swing, and add a donated water slide. Will it be done this year? Unfortunately, it will have to wait one more year! We have to do it right in order to take care of the lake and then environment, and so we have had to reschedule it.

Facebook Fan Page
Our camp community where we can find the people who love camp, information about new camps, camp pics, and other stuff. You do not have to be a Facebook member.

Our Website
It is new with lot's of changes. Let us know if you can't find something.

How Can I Help?

God's greatest blessing in the lives of people is almost always through relationship with other people. People give, share quality time, and offer love and hope. In fact, "He who does not love his neighbour, cannot love God."

Camp Sagitawa wants to share God's limitless love with people. You might ask how we do so with with limited resources. The answer is that over the years many people like yourself have chosen to share their love for people by helping us. It is through the help of these people, that our resources are multiplied. We are thankful.

How can you help us bless the lives of people through Christian Camping?
  1. Let us know you are interested in volunteering somehow
  2. Ask for regular prayer emails to pray for us
  3. Send a Child to Camp - Sponsorship Fund
  4. Support the Bursary Fund or the General Camp Ministry
Thank you for making the effort to share your kindness and love with people.

Members of:

BCCA logo We are fully accredited with BCCA, and we maintain our standards annually. A list of the accreditation standards are available on the BCCA website.
CCI logo Christian Camping International consists of a provincial and national level. This membership is a networking resource among similar camps.
CCCC logo We have an Affiliate Membership with the Canadian Council of Christian Charities. They provide practical, expert resources and specialized help for our support and leadership functions.

2011 Flood Damage..

The second last week of June brought a lot of rain. We estimate close to 9 inches fell. The ground became over saturated, watersheds became torrents, and rivers became floods. Our lake level broke records. One elder in the community says she can't remember the lake ever being so high in over 60 years. The boatshed was under 5 feet or more, and the lake reached just beyond the main firepit. Water seeped out of the ground and formed little creeks. The camp well became artesian from the pressure of ground water in the hills above.

Bridges and roads were destroyed all over this area. Most have since been restored. Our camp programs continued through it all. We did, however, have to cancel most of the SWAT trips this summer. Two were modified: the Upper Moberly canoe trip took place on the lake since the river was too high and dangerous. The Little Zion hike trip was postponed to take place on Aug 7-12.

We are also playing safe with our well water and with the lakefront. Test samples are being taken regularly. We used bottled / boiled water for drinking / cooking until the first tests came back. They were excellent. As some Moberly sewage systems compromised the lake upstream, residents were concerned about swimming and boating. So we sent a sample, and forwarded the results to Northern Health Authority. They compared it with limits for beach swimming. The E.Coli levels found in the samples were less than 10% of the limit required to close beaches. The following week the result dropped by another 90%. Another week later, NHA took their own samples and declared the lake to be ok for recreation and swimming.

Dates for Camp..

Summer Camp Programs   Moberly Lake, Trail Rides or SWAT
Off Season Camp Programs   Retreats, Ski Camp, CORE, Single Parent Family