The Creation Pt.3: Eve's creation & the day of rest
WIKY CAMP 2026 · DAILY UPDATE — WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
Ali Jo has a Bible verse tattooed on her skin: "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." John 4:24. People don't tattoo words that haven't marked them first. She has spent twenty-five years praying over this land, asking God to make it a place of worship — and this week, for the first time, we built a tent on it and worshiped inside. That's a harvest. And nobody harvests without first tilling the ground, planting, watering, and tending a crop they can't yet see. Twenty-five years of that came before this week's fruit.
In John 4, Jesus crosses into Samaria and speaks to a woman alone at a well — a conversation nobody around them would have expected or approved of. She deflects a too-personal moment into a religious debate: our fathers worshiped on this mountain, you say Jerusalem is the place. Where's the right place to worship?
Jesus's answer takes the question apart: "A time is coming and has now come when true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth... God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth." She asked where. He answered how — and who.
It's the same pattern running through all of Scripture, and we walked straight into it this week without realizing it: God has always wanted to dwell close to His people — a tent in the desert, then a temple, then Jesus himself, now us. Building a tabernacle this week and worshiping in it for the first time wasn't just a nice symbol. It was that story, happening again, on this ground.
Ali Jo's twenty-five years of prayer over this land was the tilling and watering nobody saw. She prayed for it to be redeemed — for whatever had a hold on it to be driven out, and for God to dwell there instead. We walked into a harvest somebody else planted on their knees, long before any of us arrived. And the tilling didn't stop with her prayers. Scheduling every pickup, and then actually driving to do them — that's tilling. The hours spent on the schedule, the venue, the games, the puppet show, the food planned and prepped so a hungry kid gets fed on time — none of that feels spiritual while you're doing it, but it's all ground being broken so something could grow. Nobody harvests without someone willing to do the unglamorous work first, and that work is happening in this too.
We pitched a tent without a finished blueprint for how God would use it, and He taught us as we went — a message on Abraham's tent, preached weeks before any of us knew why, and an unplanned, hard conversation with a child that became one of the week's most meaningful moments. Worship in spirit and truth isn't a perfect plan executed. It's staying honest and teachable enough to let God interrupt you.
We're asking for that same redemption in one more place this week: the conference centre, a space of real teaching and ceremony that's also carrying real grief — someone lost their life there last year. Pray that ground finds what this one is finding, and that God's presence fills it too. The question worth carrying today isn't am I in the right place. It's am I bringing Him the truth, and am I still willing to be taught?
Today itself felt like a day of moments. There wasn't a difficult kid to manage all day — the group was remarkably obedient, easy, present. What filled the time instead was one-on-one: real conversations, kids reading Bible verses together, a few picking up some guitar chords, others just coloring side by side, and plenty of the usual chasing around the field because some things about kids never change. So many of those small moments turned into real relationship — the kind this whole program exists to build.
The best one came at drop-off. Helen ended up talking with Santana, Myron's mom. Myron had been given a Bible earlier this week, and by pure coincidence, Santana had also just received one of her own. Myron lit up at the idea of his mother reading it to him, and she was just as eager to do it — a mother and son about to open Scripture together for the first time, the kind of thing you can't plan or manufacture. All through prayer.
78/38 seats filled across 6 vehicles — 16 kids still need a ride
“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.”
Wiky Camp 2026 · The Masterpiece & The Good Road · Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory
