Join Us On Our Summer Fundraiser – Kanoe For Kids
Sponsor Dave’s 3760-kilometers Adventure to Raise Funds
Join Us On Our Summer Fundraiser – Kanoe For Kids
Sponsor Dave’s 3760-kilometers Adventure to Raise Funds
What is Kanoe for Kids?
Kanoe for Kids is our summer fundraiser, taking place from June 1 to September 1. We’re dedicating this fundraiser to help support our outreach to children in Atlantic Provinces. By joining us on this fundraiser, you will be helping us to reach more kids with the Good News of the Gospel.
What is Kanoe for Kids?
Kanoe for Kids is our summer fundraiser, taking place from June 1 to September 1. We’re dedicating this fundraiser to help support our outreach to children in Atlantic Provinces. By joining us on this fundraiser, you will be helping us to reach more kids with the Good News of the Gospel.
Dave’s 3760km Adventure
Dave, a dear ministry friend, will be helping us raise additional funds for our Canadian outreach in the Atlantic Provinces. He will be embarking on a 3 month-long 3760km trip, from Flin-Flon, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories. This is equivalent to the distance from Winnipeg to Moncton by car.
Dave’s 3760km Adventure
Dave, a dear ministry friend, will be helping us raise additional funds for our Canadian outreach in the Atlantic Provinces. He will be embarking on a 3 month-long 3760km trip, from Flin-Flon, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories. This is equivalent to the distance from Winnipeg to Moncton by car.
CEF National Director - Gwen Foord
Months prior to the start date, our partner Dave Koop had a meeting with Gwen Foord, our CEF National Director. During their discussion, they delved into the details of an extraordinary 3760k solo canoe expedition that is expected to last around three months, commencing on June 1 and concluding on September 1.
Taiga
Taiga is a recent rescue dog that came from Northern Saskatchewan and I’ll get to visit again on better terms. Taiga is named after Taiga forest which is where the boreal forest meets the tundra. He will be a great companion while keeping away some of the wildlife that might make its way to their many campsites. They will see all kinds of wildlife like deer, moose, and eagles, including bears and hungry coyotes.
Food
Dave will be bringing along some freeze-dried foods for some of those needed meals. He has also sent some ahead to various stops along the way that he will be able to pick up as the weeks and months roll on. He has also brought his fishing rod and rifle for the occasional wildlife lunch.
Dave’s Adventure
June 01, my dog Taiga and I will be leaving from my dock at Schist Lake and paddling all the way to Tuktoyaktuk in my solo clipper canoe/kayak called a Sea 1. Some people will join me on certain sections but it will mostly be solo which I have always wanted to do.
I have been planning this dream trip for over 15 years and I can’t believe it will happen. I have tried twice before but something like life kept changing the plans
3760Km and 3.5 months to complete the trip.
So this is the route, Schist Lake, Phantom, Boot, Meridian Creek, Mystic, Amisk, up the Sturgeon river, to Churchill River, Up the Reindeer River, half way across Reindeer lake, up the Swan/Blondeau river, Wollaston Lake. So to that point is all upstream from Schist or 1500km. Then the water finally runs north towards the Arctic.
So from Wollaston lake, down the Fondulac River (one of my favs), Black Lake, then paddle the north shore of Lake Athabasca to Fort Chip, down the Slave Rive, to Slave Lake, cross a 1/4 of Slave Lake to the Mackenzie River to end at Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean.
I have my food drops planned out and gear ready to go.
So the official countdown is on and this time is more real than ever. Food has been prepared, maps prepared, sold my business, and my wife Sara-Lynne is allowing me to go.
Sara-Lynne and her dad Greg Foord will be picking me up in Tuktoyaktuk by driving down the Dempster Highway that goes from Whitehorse to Tuk. It will also be a very emotional trip for them as they will stop at a fishing lodge outside of Dawson Creek where Sara’s younger sister, Greg and Val Foords daughter, Rebecca, worked in her early 20’s. Rebecca passed away at the age of 41 last January from cancer. It will be a very meaningful trip for them.
So the start and pickup has been planned, so now I guess I have to execute. Or at least do my best. I will have an In-reach GPS with me that will have a link to a blog people can follow me on. I will post that closer to the start time.
CEF National Director - Gwen Foord
Months prior to the start date, our partner Dave Koop had a meeting with Gwen Foord, our CEF National Director. During their discussion, they delved into the details of an extraordinary 3760k solo canoe expedition that is expected to last around three months, commencing on June 1 and concluding on September 1.
Taiga
Taiga is a recent rescue dog that came from Northern Saskatchewan and I’ll get to visit again on better terms. Taiga is named after Taiga forest which is where the boreal forest meets the tundra. He will be a great companion while keeping away some of the wildlife that might make its way to their many campsites. They will see all kinds of wildlife like deer, moose, and eagles, including bears and hungry coyotes.
Food
Dave will be bringing along some freeze-dried foods for some of those needed meals. He has also sent some ahead to various stops along the way that he will be able to pick up as the weeks and months roll on. He has also brought his fishing rod and rifle for the occasional wildlife lunch.
Dave’s Adventure
June 01, my dog Taiga and I will be leaving from my dock at Schist Lake and paddling all the way to Tuktoyaktuk in my solo clipper canoe/kayak called a Sea 1. Some people will join me on certain sections but it will mostly be solo which I have always wanted to do.
I have been planning this dream trip for over 15 years and I can’t believe it will happen. I have tried twice before but something like life kept changing the plans
3760Km and 3.5 months to complete the trip.
So this is the route, Schist Lake, Phantom, Boot, Meridian Creek, Mystic, Amisk, up the Sturgeon river, to Churchill River, Up the Reindeer River, half way across Reindeer lake, up the Swan/Blondeau river, Wollaston Lake. So to that point is all upstream from Schist or 1500km. Then the water finally runs north towards the Arctic.
So from Wollaston lake, down the Fondulac River (one of my favs), Black Lake, then paddle the north shore of Lake Athabasca to Fort Chip, down the Slave Rive, to Slave Lake, cross a 1/4 of Slave Lake to the Mackenzie River to end at Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean.
I have my food drops planned out and gear ready to go.
So the official countdown is on and this time is more real than ever. Food has been prepared, maps prepared, sold my business, and my wife Sara-Lynne is allowing me to go.
Sara-Lynne and her dad Greg Foord will be picking me up in Tuktoyaktuk by driving down the Dempster Highway that goes from Whitehorse to Tuk. It will also be a very emotional trip for them as they will stop at a fishing lodge outside of Dawson Creek where Sara’s younger sister, Greg and Val Foords daughter, Rebecca, worked in her early 20’s. Rebecca passed away at the age of 41 last January from cancer. It will be a very meaningful trip for them.
So the start and pickup has been planned, so now I guess I have to execute. Or at least do my best. I will have an In-reach GPS with me that will have a link to a blog people can follow me on. I will post that closer to the start time.
Sponsor Dave Today
We invite you to consider sponsoring Dave as he embarks on his 3760km adventure. Any contribution you make will go directly towards funding our Canadian outreach in the Atlantic Provinces. Donations can be as little as 5 cents, or any other amount that the Lord might lead you to donate. Every bit counts!