Sorry for the delay on this week's notes.

Please see devotional notes attached.

Scott 

• We miss you TO people – it feels surreal at camp now 

• We are staying on track with Jan’s Place, our staff girls accommodation, installing AC in all of our cabins, reseeding areas grass doesn’t usually grow 

• We want to thank Kevin and his team who have been scrubbing grout and deep cleaning all of our cabins 

• Our seasonal team took on the upgrading of the boathouse to refresh it 

• Zech 8:5 is my fave because it gives me hope to what this place will be like again

Chris

• The premier has extended the state of emergency until the end of June

• That means we need to continue to build around government guidelines around what it looks like to reopen our offices 

• The TO office will remain closed in the short term

• At the resort please continue to practice social distancing

• One thing we’re conscious of is the public perception of what goes on at the resort 

• We will be emailing to clarify some guidelines around swimming and re: checking in and checking out of the resort for employees who don’t live at the resort 

• We want to give you a clear and accurate picture of the financial implications of COVID-19 

• We are finalizing the decisions re: layoffs as we take into consideration your benefit as an employee and also the workflow/load 

• We are not anticipating that we will open for S&G in the Fall, that decision is not final but it is based on the financial model and conversations we’ve been having with schools and groups 

• We believe that if we can have a 4 week layoff time for as many of us as possible in September it will benefit you as individuals and us as an organization 

• We are going to make a commitment to keep you updated in a timely manner 

• June 24 & 25 is our Senior Team’s annual meeting to revisit the financial model of MW and to think about the opportunities we have in this time with no guests with a specific focus on our facility and programming excellence 

John

• I want to address what is happening within the Black community in Canada as well as the USA from my seat as the CEO 

• My thoughts this morning are from Raymond Brown’s commentary on Nehemiah 

• On Monday Chris asked us as a senior team ‘how will we know when the wall is done?’ 

• Yesterday Chris and I set the day to pray for Muskoka Woods and think about what kind of community we are going to build after this 

• “Nehemiah was not building a wall, he was building a people” 

• Raymond Brown tells a horrific story about missionaries in the 19th century who committed to writing letters to each other to cope with what they were dealing with 

• What was unique about this was that these two missionaries came from 2 completely different theological backgrounds/beliefs but both of them wanted to live a life that was distinctly different from the communities they were in 

• In Zech 8 we get a picture of justice for old and young 

• Pray for empathy and consider how you can come alongside our friends 

• Personally, as a former police officer, I was ashamed to watch the videos that have come out the past few days 

• This is not just a time at MW where we are just refreshing our facilities (although I am so thankful for the team who has been working so hard to make camp pristine) we’re being invited to a deeper work 

• Yesterday in my time of prayer with Chris he was inspired to ask ‘‘how do we create a place where we can stand shoulder to shoulder, face to face?”  

• God has strategically put us in this book to take us deeper 

• Yesterday we received an 8 page paper from a staff member who wrote from their experience at MW so I am taking time to meet with them to listen and learn 

• We want to identify how we can be a listening community 

• How can we be everything that God has called us to be? 

• Please email me with your questions, ideas, input, to help me to listen more clearly 

• Thank you for your incredible work in these strange and sobering times! 

• I am moving north this weekend in order to make better decisions with our team on property