at the Wisconsin Lions Camp in Rosholt, Wisconsin.

The wooded camp surrounds a small lake and has modern, accessible facilities.

Please register by May 7

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Our Theme: Let your life speak

Let your life speak. British Yearly Meeting’s Faith & Practice asks if ‘when choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK. When decisions have to be made, are you ready to join with others in seeking clearness, asking for God’s guidance and offering counsel to one another’? Friends aspire to this life of faithfulness and action.

Does this suggest we all have gifts? If our lives consist mainly of business and burdens, must we look into the heart of our stress to see the gifts? Could it be that even our capacity for dealing with our stresses and strains is a gift? If this is the case, how does pain, sorrow, or burden become something to offer in service? We are struck and moved by the process of transformation. Burdens become light, troubles aren’t necessarily solved but somehow we are different in how we are with them. British Yearly Meeting advises live adventurously. Is there adventure in suffering? The Buddhists have described it this way: life is suffering, and our task is to achieve nonattachment to the suffering. There is no advice to only do this when we feel good. We suspect many of us do our deepest seeking when we are most troubled. Could suffering be not just inevitable but a necessary ingredient in the cauldron of transformation?

We are interested in hearing Friends stories of transformation. Mother Theresa said ‘I am not extraordinary, I am extra-ordinary’. What ordinary experiences have led to spiritual transformation? Our Saturday evening plenary speakers will tell us how their own lives have changed from the awful to the awe-full, from lemons to lemonade. Our workshops will address the question: How does this happen? In the awesome community we form at the session, we will encourage others to share their stories of transformation, their questions of how and whether this can be done, to pray and laugh and cry and together wonder at the lake, the sky, the eagles, and even to wonder at this web of each other’s company that we become. In our Worship Sharing groups we’ll consider: What do early Friends’ or other spiritual writings or current teachers in our and other traditions have to offer in the way of advice, practices, support for what seems like difficult work?

Directions To Camp

From Stevens Point, WI go east on Hwy 66. (The route to Lions Camp is marked with obvious highway signs.) Follow 66 about 15 miles to Rosholt. About one mile east of Rosholt, turn north on County Hwy A. Go north on A just over one mile. Lions Camp is on the left.

From the east, take Hwy 49 north from Waupaca, through Iola, to intersection with Hwy 66. Go west on 66 about 3/4

mile. Turn north on County Hwy A. Go north on A just over one mile. Lions Camp is on the left.


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Please register by May 7

click here for brochure with registration form