Category Archives: LAMP 2019 Blog

Sahamttawa Team Travel Day 2 Winnipeg to Shamattawa

Shamattawa Team Day 2 Friday 7-19 As written in Thursday’s journal, I noted we were staying in the basement of Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Winnipeg. Dave made breakfast for us as we packed up and got ready to head out. We had a detour to a walk in clinic. Leon had a minor health concern, so wanted to have it checked before heading out for 10 days where a doctor is usually not available.

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Travel day, day 1 for Shamattawa Team

After a short prayer time at the church in Fergus Falls, we left for Canada, but not before a wonderful send off from family and friends. The trip across our northern border went without a hitch. Just a few questions and we were off to Winnipeg. Shortly after the border at a rest area, we ran into two teams from the St. Louis area heading to Lynn Lake and Brochet. These two teams have been

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Team Shamattawa 2019 Heading into “The North” Read all about it right here.

2019 marks eleven years of traveling north into Manitoba for our teams from Trinity Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls. As I write this it is Wednesday evening 17 July, 2019. I will be posting to this blog site for the next 10 days provided that we have internet available where we stop along the way, or where we stay while in Shamattawa.  This year, the Shamattawa team, Myself,  Leon Dawkins, wife Lori Dawkins, Dave Schneeberger, and

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LAMP Teams Head North

Please keep our LAMP (Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots) volunteers in prayer as final preparations are made prior to the teams’ departures to Manitoba. The Shamattawa team will leave on July 18th and the Norway House team will depart on July 20th; commissioning of the team will be held during Divine Service on Sunday, July 14th. If you would like to do daily devotions with the teams while they are up North, please pick

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