2016 Ministry Outdoor Adventures Events (to Date)

~ 2016 Ministry Outdoor Adventures Events to Date ~

 

January / February / March 2016

* 1/27/16 - MOA End of Season Pheasant Hunt & Antelope Scouting Trip (Wallace & Scott Counties)

* 2/28-3/1/16 – 2^nd Annual MOA Foundation Hog Hunt to Chain Ranch, Canton, Oklahoma.  (Event Full / 10 participants booked)

April / May 2016
* 4/25-4/27/16 – MOA Foundation 1^st Annual Striper Fishing Trip to Lake Texoma, w/guide James Allen of “The Blue Water Striper Guide Service.”  (2 open Spots Remaining)

* Medicine Lodge Spring Turkey Hunt. (Possible / Firm Date TBD)

August / September 2016
* 8/27-9/7 (5 days TBD by Outfitter) 2^nd Annual Fall Elk/Bear Hunt, Buckhorn Mountain Ranch, Montrose, CO. (This Event is FULL)
* 9/11-9/13/16 – MOA Foundation “Legends of The Fall” Dove Hunting & Golf Retreat to Curtis, NE.  (Open to pastors, ministry staff, and spouses)

October / November / December 2016
* 2^nd Annual MOA Fall Clay Shoot. (Firm Date TBD)
* 1^st Annual Fall Antelope Hunt. (Kansas / Wallace Co / 4 spots only / Firm Date TBD KDWP)
* 1^st Annual Pastor’s Archery Deer Hunting Retreat. (6 spots only, Firm Date TBD)
* 2^nd Annual Western Kansas Pheasant Hunt. (Scott City Area)
* 1^st Annual Pastor’s Firearm Season Deer Hunting Retreat. (6 spots only, Firm Date TBD)

 

     If you would like to nominate your pastor (or one of your ministry staff members) for an MOA outdoor adventure, you can email us at MOAFound@gmail.com, or text or call us at (316)-200-0156 / (316)650-2901.

     We think it is going to be a great year for ministering to men of God, in the great outdoors!

- Rob Schmutz & Jeff Ochs
  The Ministry Outdoor Adventures Team 

 

A Gun-Dog's 23rd Psalm

I did a funeral a while back for an awesome man who was a dog trainer, a dog lover, a hunter and an outdoorsman.  In preparation for his funeral the Lord led me to re-work the 23rd Psalm... from the eyes of a hunting dog... Here is my best effort...

"My Master is my provider,

I trust Him to give me everything I need.

I lie down, and I rise up at the sound of His voice. He teaches me to seek, and to point the quail and the pheasant hidden in the fields, the meadows, and the hedgerows, and along the creeks where we venture.

My soul is most alive when He leads me along the well-worn paths that take us to all of our favorite places, and my heart soars at the rush of the wings as the birds rise from my point. Hope bursts from my chest at the sound of his shot, and it is for His Names sake that I proudly retrieve the birds that are downed and place them into His hands.

Even when I grow fearful, or weary, holding point in dense cover, seeing Him in my memory, His shotgun in hand, remembering the sounds of his approach through the grass, I am comforted, and I am strengthened, knowing that my Master will find me again, no matter where I may be.

Water, food, a warm bed, all this… He prepares for me, and He speaks my praises in the presence of lesser dogs and of their Masters. I am certain he is proud of me as he pats my head and says “Good boy…”

Great memories, of the best of times, that only a Gun Dog can know, will be treasured in my heart… and those memories will follow me all the days of my life, knowing that, in my Master’s Soul… I will dwell forever and ever. And He… by me… will never be forgotten."

- Pastor Rob Schmutz