MAJORITY MASKWACIS-BORN SUMMER YOUTH TEAM HELPS OUT AT CAMP MEETING

MASKWACIS NEWS

Feeling “At Home”— Helping pitch the teepee near the main auditorium was a special event for the seven Team members from Maskwacis. Much more than a moveable dwelling in Cree culture, pitching the teepee and its location filled the Indigenous youth and other Indigenous individuals attending with a sense of belonging and recognition. MANS Grad/Summer Team Member Gladly Helps — Maskwacis Summer Youth Team member Jade Rabbit, a past president of the MANS Student Association, helps a Maskwacis member with her children during the Maskwacis baptism at the end of Camp Meeting. Jade is attending Burman University this fall along with other members of the Team.

Majority Maskwacis-born Summer Youth Team Helps Out at Camp Meeting

Under the leadership of Maskwacis congregation member Aiyanna Potts, who led the Summer Youth Team for a second year, Summer Youth Team members played an expanded role at camp meeting this year. Besides helping to launch the Mamawi Atosketan Centre campaign, members helped pitch a traditional teepee, and helped daily in the children’s divisions.

MANS Grad/Summer Team Member Gladly Helps — Maskwacis Summer Youth Team member Jade Rabbit, a past president of the MANS Student Association, helps a Maskwacis member with her children during the Maskwacis baptism at the end of Camp Meeting. Jade is attending Burman University this fall along with other members of the Team.

Photo by Trevor Boller

Aiyanna, age 23 and a 14-year veteran of the Youth Team, is very pleased with the growing number of youth in Maskwacis who participated in the 2022 team not only at Foothills Camp, but also in the team’s Yellowknife VBS and in Maskwacis itself over the summer. Seven of the 10 team members call Maskwacis home.

By Lynn McDowell