Árdís - 01.01.1953, Side 75

Ársrit Bandalags lúterskra kvenna
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Our Sunrise Lutheran Camp
By MRS. MURIEL HART
Delivered at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Convention
of the Lutheran Women’s League,
Riverton, Man., June 13th, 1953.
I wonder if we realize the great privilege we enjoy in owning,
and operating the camp, which has been the main objective of the
Lutheran Women’s League for years and a vision realized. I would
like to take you on a trip to Sunrise Lutheran Camp, and those who
know, and love the camp, as much as I do, will please lend their
indulgence, as the Lutheran Women’s League executive felt that
many had not seen it for quite some time, and had missed the good
improvements added each year and some had never been there at all.
It is situated on the Main Beach Highway at Husavick Station,
approximately four miles south of Gimli, where daily buses and
trains stop at the gate, a most easy, and convenient spot to reach.
It comprises twelve acres of land, running from the highway on the
west, and to the lake on the east, where it has a smooth sandy beach
frontage of 400 feet.
As we enter the gate, the first and finest building of the eleven
buildings on the camp site is the Memorial Hall, to commemorate
those who paid the supreme sacrifice, in two world wars. In this
building daily religious instruction is given to the camp groups,
devotional services, entertainments and the final closing night
concert for parents, relatives, and interested friends, are held. This
building also houses an adequate library, which we encourage our
camp youth to use as extensively as possible, for knowledge and
entertainment. Looking back, as Dean, of the camp, what would we
have done without this beautiful and useful building.
Just west of the Memorial Hall, is an almost completed outdoor
chapel. The financing of this has been a long cherished dream of
the Lutheran Sunday School Teachers’ Association of our Icelandic
Synod — a chapel for outdoor services and meditation. It has a
beautiful altar background measuring 16 feet in length, and 12 feet
maximum in height, and a pulpit, all of cedar construction. An