My years of cooking at church camps.

My first time of cooking for larger than family dinner was after I had moved with the Grenfell bible School to the west coast after my year at the school there. I had been asked to travel with the presidents family all the way through the mountains by car with a family of three children plus we three adults.They were short of money so we would stop in towns where The Erickson's knew the Full Gospel pastors, whether they had let them know ahead of time that they wanted bed & breakfast, I do not remember. The next morning we would drive on the next day stopping at more friends ,until we arrived at Port Cocktails to where the Bible school was being moved to. The school was to open that fall as many had applied. The many supplies that were being move from Grenfell were being shipped by train & I believe some of the older students were traveling with these supplies. They didn't have a cook hired yet so I was asked to do the cooking until a cook would be found.It was a new experience for me. The place needed a lot of cleaning ,I manage to keep not only the family feed clothed & washed. The apartment where the family was to live had to be kept clean.
With My brother in law knowing of my having this experience ,Lewis White hading the job of finding a cook for Trossach camp, he contacted me, but I said"No" as I was a farmers wife, with 3 small children, & my mother was staying with us then as well. He said I would get paid & my children could come with me. I finally said"if you really can't find some one I would help you out." Of course Lewis stopped looking. I started cooking for Trossach camp, taking my children with I think Colleen stay at home with grandma Lincoln so Max would have a cook as we were Mixed farming with lots of chores to do. I had a helper with the food preparation, Mrs Keith of Hazenmore as the second cook. She was Isabelle(my best school friends) mother.
We cooked on coal & wood stoves & had a man who kept these old large restaurant stoves
stoked & piping hot for the to cooks to start breakfast for all the campers. We had a lot of volunteer help from campers & many helped with a lot of the job of running a large church camp on the southern Sask. prairies. It was in the only area with trees.
I cooked for 3 different church camps in my 12 or more years as a camp cook.I was a head cook at least 12 times at Trossach, then later I cooked several times at camps in Manitoba.
I first cooked at the Pentecostal camp south of Brandon & also at a camp north of Minnedosa near Gimlie near a Lake.
At these camps we would be cooking for around 60 or more campers each meal, some times farmers whose family's were at camp would come for evening meal. Sunday meals were the largest as many people came from the surrounding area came for the services. In the early years the camp grounds would over flow with people who came to see these Holy Rollers roll. The many years I attended that camp I never saw anyone roll but many came to those alter to
ask Jesus into their life & were filled with the spirit of God, went home to live better lives with Joy in their hearts ready to help friends & relatives know peace & love for others, to be a helpers to friends & family.