“A month back, I got sent to the psychologist because I told my mom that I thought I was going to kill myself. I woke up every morning just wishing I was dead. I had nothing to look to. I was really angry with God. It was the same week Adam reached out and asked if I wanted to come here (I truly believe that was the timing of God). I was expecting it to be like every other camp I’ve gone to. But when I showed up, I met a community of really genuine, open, like-minded people, who didn’t expect a perfectly perfect person. To have that supernatural warm embrace when you’re prayed for is like night and day from what I was usually feeling. I genuinely felt like I could be myself. And I found my hope. It saved me and brought me back to God. God saved my life and gave me something to look forward to.”

“When I first got here, every 20 or 30 seconds I would twitch. And every so often my head would bobble. I had spinal chord damage, and since last night when they prayed for me, it still feels really stiff, but I’m not in pain and the twitching has gone away almost completely. No bobble head doll today! I believe God’s started something and He’s going to finish it.”

"I didn't want to go to Deeper Life... because I knew I was going to meet God there, and I was really scared to meet God. I had been on a mission's trip a couple years prior and on that trip I came face to face with the God I serve, and it really scared me. I had lived with so much fear for two years that God might actually try and talk to me again. But God made it very clear to me that I had to go anyway... So reluctantly I went. The very first person I met took me off guard, they were so humble and gentle I felt unusually safe, and I didn't have to be defensive. (It was kind of confusing!) But the best part was the worship times! About half way through the week I had surrendered to God again, and I was just basking in His presence, and I had no fear! For the first time in over two years, I was not afraid of God! I can't explain how amazing that felt! I knew God loved me from the love He showed through the people, and simply from spending so much time worshiping and in His presence. It was absolutely amazing."

“Dear Deeper Life @ SBC, thank you for everything you have done for me. Thank you for changing my life in just one summer, thank you for helping me find my true self. Thank you for the amazing staff that I was able to work with, all the new friends I have made, all of my brothers and sisters in Christ, and thank you for giving me a home. I don’t know what I would have done without you, I don’t know where I would be without you, and I’m proud to say that I’m a Christian. Thank you to everyone who helped me throughout the way, who let me open up to them, reach out to them for help, and thank you for staying with me. Thank you for showing me the path, and guiding me! I’m really sad that his summer is over so soon but I will gladly stay in contact and hopefully see you next summer!”

“Where do I even start??? You can tell this place is soaked in prayer. From the moment I arrived I could feel His presence and movement. This weekend I’ve experienced break-through in ways I didn’t know I needed. God showed me areas in life / past traumas that I haven’t dealt with but thought I had. He has comforted me in my anger and spoken to me through others, His scripture, musical worship and visions. I am leaving refreshed and renewed. I will forever be thankful for this weekend…. Oh my goodness, it knocked my socks off. I heard God speak more clearly than I have in years. He used visions, other people, visions thought other people, teachings, musical worship, prayer, scripture… it was a non-stop conversation with my King and creator and I am beyond grateful for it all. This place is soaked in prayer. His presence is felt and the leadership is so Spirit-led… it is beautiful. Truly beautiful. It truly felt like home. My heart is so full.”

“I haven't been the same since. The Lord hasn't stopped speaking. Tears are filling my eyes as I write…. My Deeper life Worship Camp experience gave me a new song written with new friends, words of prophecy, prayer and blessing, lifelong covenant relationships, and the privilege of seeing God bring nations and generations together in the province of Saskatchewan."

“In every individual staff member I experienced the love of Jesus.... And it moved my heart to tears of how much He cares for me.... Leaving camp felt like I was leaving family. And a space where Heaven meets earth, where the presence of God has found its rest."

"I was asking God what to do. He told me to lie down... and I saw myself lying down and stitches were going up my torso. I saw God cutting the stitches and opening me up. He pulled something from my lungs. Then He grabbed a small white ball and put it in my injured knee. The ball was absorbed into my knee. I then woke up with my knee and lungs (asthma) healed." [Later Brayden was able to test it by running, jumping and swimming.]

“My experience at worship camp was like entering into the house of God. When I stepped out of the vehicle onto the grounds, I felt a high level of peace.... Everyone was instant family. I felt like I was in God’s living room.”

​"We didn’t even know what we needed until we were there…. We were amazed at how God refreshed us.”

“God reveals Himself to me every time I come here…. He gave me a place where I was comfortable, a place that I loved, a place where I was accepted and valued…. I know that it’s been that for other people, it’s been a place of refuge. They feel safe here, they feel loved, and they experience Jesus when they come here.”

“It has been a long time since I felt so much of the Holy Spirit’s presence in a week, and I left feeling personally strengthened and deeply encouraged by what the Lord is doing in our nation.”

“I’ve never been this deep in Christ.”

"It is so easy to feel like family at DL because they instantly serve you with no hidden agenda - Jesus' servanthood shines brightly in the people who serve in this ministry.”

“It just feels like being at home; it’s so delightful that this is the kingdom we live in…. It has just felt like one long love feast.”

“Being in Canada isn’t easy for me.... But I can for sure say this is my best week in Canada so far. I really wanted to find hungry people, and I found them. I found them. It broke things in me…. all the walls came down…. Everyone was here for a purpose and everyone played a role in someone else’s life for a purpose. I’m super expectant for what the Lord’s gonna do in the future.”

"I realized that God was always there and He knew what He was doing. I received the Holy Spirit this summer, received the gift of prophecy, and have grown a deeper connection with Him.”

“Before I came, my relationship with God was pretty bad…. But when I came here this week, I finally felt God’s presence again. He showed me that I had to put effort in because He’s put so much effort into me. It gave me a new perspective on how much He loves me and how much I love Him.”

​“The Lord surpassed my highest expectations; everything I asked of Him He answered, doing in days what I thought would take years, both in my heart and in most of the campers and staff. A friend told me two days in that I seemed like a new man.”

“Before coming, I didn’t know where I stood with God. I was very hard towards Him in a way…. I didn’t know if I wanted to go back into worship leading; I didn’t know if I was someone who should be standing up there in front of people leading them into anything. Showing up here, it was really cool to see the leaders surrender to the Holy Spirit and not try to force anything, and every night felt right. I realized I am not anybody to be up there leading, but that’s the reality for all of us; we’re not special. It has nothing to do with you, it’s just what He wants to do.”

All my girls were very impacted by chapel and kids church. As a father that is priceless. The times of pursuit and sessions were challenging and right on target! God moved and we are looking forward to registering for next year!

“I can’t even begin to describe the peace and comfort I felt while at the camp. Everything felt so sweet and touched by God. It really felt like home and it was actually hard to leave…. We talked about our highlights of the day and it was pretty much every single moment.”

“I started looking at things that I hadn’t considered idols.”

“The Lord has refreshed my soul, combated a lot of deep-seated lies, and drawn me closer to Himself. I’ve never experienced prophetic dancing either.”

“The picture I had the first night was of a lake that was deeper and didn’t flow into streams, they had grown dry; I saw the Lord digging those trenches for living water, and I feel that rest in my heart.”

“I feel really softened. I haven’t been in an environment like this for a while. I came with high expectations because I know the Lord is here and He was going to move… but I thought He would be more meticulous with me, and instead He was just ok to be with me and stand with me and show me that He is still good.”

”This weekend with Jesus allowed me to reconcile a lot of traumatic events from my past by forcing me to be alone with Him and my thoughts. It allowed me to process some emotions while seeing His goodness in all areas of my life. God is so good! I’m so thankful to have been given the opportunity to be here.”

“This place is so special; it’s like an oasis where the Spirit just lounges. I’ve explored so many churches and Bible studies, and you can’t find this anywhere–it’s unique. I can see that it’s actually true that everyone is equal here. There is space and freedom for whatever you’re going through. I don’t even want to go home after this week….

“I have a prophetic prayer ministry that also does a lot of physical healing; my personal testimony is that in the midst of that, it’s been more than a decade since I’ve had an illness at all. So to be struck down with Covid, I was so blindsided by that, to walk in healing and then almost be killed by a sickness, and to have that sickness also strip my sense of identity in understanding and gifting in healing… Everything was gone, all of who I understood who I was, and my ministry for Him and who He created me to be was taken in a week. I questioned who I was supposed to be now, without the ability to write a sentence above a grade five level, or to have a heart to do anything…. I didn’t know who to be anymore. Everything I believed, I didn’t know how to walk out; had I been a sham for the last decade? Then to have you all gather around me and pray, in that moment it all lifted: the physical pain, my energy; my head is clear, I can think again; I can compose a sentence and hold a thought in my head for more than a moment…. He never left…. For the last seven months I’ve had this burning in my head, it felt like acid between my brain and my skull, and I felt it lift out; it’s gone.”

“I saw Him take the darkness from my heart and put in a new pure one. He said He would reign over my heart and my life and replace anything that has been reigning over my life.”

“He’s giving me ideas & power to reach the group that He’s placed me in.”

“I have peace for the first time in a very long time.”

“I saw healing happen this weekend, I saw God point out all of the points of my life where I wasn’t letting go, and I knew I didn’t let go… He pointed out, saying ‘Kira, this is something you need to let go in order to be with Me, and you know that, but you gotta let it go in order to be with Me.’ It was just grace pouring down and it was absolutely amazing.”

“I experienced peace and God’s freedom and felt like a whole burden was lifted off my shoulders.”

“On the first night, God gave me a word ‘revelation’. I didn't know what that would entail, but the next night I experienced the Holy Spirit in a way I never have, and it was so, so powerful that I literally had to get carried out of here to my dorm and I woke up shaking…. On the final night I had my revelation, and it was so simple and powerful, and it was that God loves me and wants to spend time with me.”

“When I first got here on Sunday, I was broken… I needed HIm with me especially in my mind, and Sunday night while I was being prayed for I felt like a wave hit me, but it was hot. And I felt like I came out new and all the stress that I had disappeared. I don’t have an ounce of stress. My heart is completely at rest. I felt like I was broken inside, and now I’m fulfilled. My heart’s completely healed.”

“When I came and everybody was praying--people were praying for each other and just falling down--I wanted some of that. I have this thing called autophobia [or monophobia] where you’re afraid of being alone; I couldn’t even go downstairs to my own basement without being scared. But when I got prayed for I felt it all slip away. I never felt so happy in my whole entire life. I don’t know if I’m still afraid of being alone, but I felt that fear slip away, and I feel like it’s all gone now.”

“As soon as I drove up to the camp, I felt a tinkling feeling. When I got to the door it was like a new start, I felt like a different person. Then the first night when everybody was crying and laughing, and Levi told me that was everybody receiving joy from God, I thought ‘that would be nice’. I slept on it, then in morning chapel all my fear was gone. (Before I came here it’d take me two hours to make up my mind if I wanted to come up here and share.) Then yesterday I received some joy from God and it was like a new fresh start; before I was just needing joy from God. Today I could hear this voice, it was God. He was saying ‘I'm about to give you My joy. Know that I will always love you no matter what happens’…. Then I went down cause I was laughing and receiving joy, my legs were tingling.”

“My sister went to camp last week and the day she got back… she told us all about it; that most of the nights they felt the fire of the lord and they couldn’t stop laughing and crying for hours and they were filled up with God’s joy. I thought, ‘that'd be so nice to feel that’. The first night Levi came up to me and said ‘do you want to feel the fire of the Lord?’ And he put his hand on my forehead and I fell over and I was filled up with joy and I don’t know how to explain it… All my worries melted away and i felt amazing. Last night I felt it again, and I felt even better, like a really really giant cup and I was filled up with joy and it couldn't stop overflowing. Last night i couldn't stop tingling. This morning my arms were tingling. When everyone else was telling their testimonies I couldn't stop tingling. Now I know what my sister felt; it’s personal, I was feeling a relationship with god. Crazy things have been going on and my relationship with God was slowly fading away, so I started a journal to write in every night and build up my relationship with God again. I feel like a whole entire new person, like I've been refreshed and filled with God’s joy. (I’m tingling again.)

“It has been a long time since I felt so much of the Holy Spirit’s presence in a week, and I left feeling personally strengthened and deeply encouraged by what the Lord is doing in our nation.”

“Being in Canada isn’t easy for me. With the traveling I’ve done, the people I’ve talked to who you’d think would be on fire and still enjoy the Lord, are really struggling. But I can for sure say this is my best week in Canada so far. I really wanted to find hungry people, and I found them. I found them. And I’m really grateful that I get to be part of it. It broke things in me…. all the walls came down…. Everyone was here for a purpose and everyone played a role in someone else’s life for a purpose. I’m super expectant for what the Lord’s gonna do in the future.”

“The last few years I’ve been struggling a lot with my health, and I’ve been very hard on myself because I’ve been stuck inside a lot. I had a dream that I was in bed and the blinds were closed–because that was so much of my life–and there was warfare happening outside. In the dream it was morning, and a Deeper Life staff member came in as if it was just their duty, to simply open the windows and walked out. I got up and looked down, and was suddenly wearing righteous white clothing. I had so much rest and freedom for the rest of the weekend, and was able to receive and let the Spirit soak into me and refresh me. When the blind was opened I could see His goodness again in the land of the living, I can see now in His light and feel His refreshing.”

“He’s given me renewed hope and joy to live each day for Him and Him alone.”

“God has helped me to step out in faith and out of my comfort zone more this weekend.”

“I came to camp having my mind running at a million miles an hour and being completely drained in every part of me. Coming and surrounding myself with friends and those who I can call my family, I not only found peace, but I found where I am in my faith and I’m re-ignited to pursue Him deeper.”

“I got to look back and see the really intensive and needed restoration journey Jesus has been leading me in over the last year. I can see so many ways He has been refreshing me and redeeming broken areas. I also experienced a fresh wave of joy in ministering to others and receiving personal ministry during tent time. I can see Jesus working and it’s so sweet.”

“Our first night, as we spent time reflecting, I saw Jesus lead me to the place in my heart where my desire for Him was… and the well was so very dry; I felt so ashamed. Jesus turned to me and said ‘why are you ashamed of you when I’m not ashamed of you?’ … Then He handed me a shovel and we started digging for water together.”

“God did so many things in my heart but mostly I was encouraged, refreshed and renewed. The Presence of God was so tangible in all the settings as we moved from different activities. It is such a blessing to be a part of the family of God where there is freedom of expression being practiced.”

“He continued to speak to me about my value and prophesy into my future and relationship with Him. He spoke to me about my child-like faith and showed me more of Himself.”

“His presence was so real. He began to pour dreams into my heart as well as reminding me of the dreams that He had already spoken over me. God’s presence is so refreshing. I am grateful for all that God did through conversations and prayer. God is raising a generation that seeks His face without an agenda.”

“I asked God to show himself to me and my friend and He did not disappoint.”