{"id":22083,"date":"2023-07-05T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=22083"},"modified":"2023-07-10T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:38:44","slug":"outdoor-ministries-association-presents-awards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/outdoor-ministries-association-presents-awards-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Ministries Association presents awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Frank Ramirez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shannon Kahler, of Burbank, Ohio, who has served as executive director for Camp Inspiration Hills in Northern Ohio, received the Staff Member of the Year Award <\/strong>at a Wednesday morning Outdoor Ministries Association breakfast event. Kahler finds the most rewarding part of her job, \u201cThe way it reaches children for Christ in a different way than it happens in church. It happens in a community, not sitting down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kahler, when asked what she loves best about camp, said, \u201cI really enjoy most of all when nobody else is there and you listen to nature and listen to God speak\u2014and then get ready for more people!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her most recent experience as a camper came earlier this summer attending Grandcamp with three of her thirteen grandchildren. She also attends Bike Camp. Her hobbies include biking and reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shannon Kahler speaking to the Outdoor Ministries Association breakfast. Photo by Keith Hollenberg. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mark Dickerhoof (right) receives the Volunteer of the Year award. Photo by Keith Hollenberg. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mark Dickerhoof of Clinton, Ohio, was named Volunteer of the Year<\/strong> for his work at Camp Inspiration Hills. When asked his specialty as a volunteer he noted, \u201cI do everything\u2014electrical, plumbing\u2014when trees fall, well no one wants to do that, so I clear trails, mowing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recently put in a deck attached to one building where a wedding was held. It had to be strong enough to support 125 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dickerhoof is a retired plumber and pipe-fitter who owned his own equipment company. \u201cI still have a bulldozer, a skip loader, and a lot of other equipment. If I want to do something, I can do it.\u201d He described with enthusiasm a particular mower that is designed for clearing fields, and when the blades grow dull he simply flips a switch and it self-sharpens once he starts mowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He himself began camping when he was young. Now he enjoys doing tough jobs around camp, \u201cWhen I go out and see what burning bush there is.\u201d  He begins by envisioning the project than deciding what tool he should uses. He recently put in handicap sidewalks, and fixed leaks in some of the older systems. \u201cI do enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the rewards of a job well done, Dickerhoof said, \u201cI get paid in cookies: two frozen chocolate chip cookies!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Garry Pearson, of David, Calif., conducted the Awards Breakfast. He has been involved at Camp Peaceful Pines since 1973. He described with gratitude and wonder how the Hot Shots firefighting teams parachuted into Camp Peaceful Pines during the terrible fires a few years back and protected the camp. \u201cCamp is just a joy to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more about the Outdoor Ministries Association<\/a> on the OMA website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camp songs at the Outdoor Ministries Association breakfast. Photo by Keith Hollenberg. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staff Member of the Year and Volunteer of the Year were announced at the Outdoor Ministries Association breakfast held Wednesday morning July 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[2508,2439,1683,2067,2076,628],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-22083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-annual-conference-2023","tag-awards","tag-camps","tag-frank-ramirez","tag-oma","tag-outdoor-ministries-association"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22083"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22295,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions\/22295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=22083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}