Which Seed Are You?

01/20/2018 12:00 AM | Eric St. Pierre (Administrator)

Our last Outing of the 2017-2018 hunting season was one of great growth spiritually. We studied the parable of the sower.  Explaining the different seeds to the young men and asking them to reflect in their quiet time which seed they thought most reflected them in their walk with Jesus. 

Their answers were anything but what you would have expected as they shared with each other their shortcomings. Most of the boys were seeking to find a way to go from being the seed that they most relate to, to the seed that produces 30, 60, or 100 fold.  True discipleship happened through Holy Spirit with these young men this weekend.

We ended our hunting season with a chance to squirrel and coyote hunt at this year’s deer hunting location. This last weekend we had a full house of CTO Sportsmen and Guides. 

As always it seems the animals, we were set on harvesting, could sense we were coming for them and the hunt started off slow. However we harvested plenty of squirrels by the time lunch was served. None of the sportsmen hit their daily limit, but each of them was able to harvest at least one squirrel on the first day.

For one of out sportsmen it was his first harvest ever! He was very excited and joy filled and ready for pictures. After we had all gathered back up with our game one of our Guides, Steve, showed everyone how to properly break down a squirrel. Everyone got an opportunity to do it.

The coyote hunts we did at night. Getting to use the coyote calls and colored lights mounted on the scopes excited the entire group of hunters. Two sportsmen decided to use raccoons, they harvested during the day, and use them as bait for the coyotes. It worked! As they went down with Bear to go to there hunting spot, the coyotes had already beaten them to it. Through some cunning tactics implemented by Bear they were able to get close enough to get two shots off, but unfortunately they came up empty. However raccoons were also in season at this time and unfortunately they are not as sly as the coyotes and therefore were harvested when they presented themselves to the sportsmen to be harvested. 

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