Boondock Squat'n gathers monthly somewhere in a backcountry setting where we can make fire, cook meat, bring our stories, open a bible, brainstorm a little, sleep under the stars, and then get back to navigating life in the fulness of what we have been created for. The whole goal is to help keep each other in the saddle, to hang on a little longer, and to navigate this life with clear directions. We do this in a very informal, and unformatted way. We really enjoy getting men together and encouraging each other in a simplistic setting. The cost for these events is $20 (You can't even buy your buddy lunch for that!)
OUR 2023 SQUATS! MEET IN ONE OF THESE PLACES THE LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH
Overnight campout for Men. Situated on a great camp spot and swimming hole. STEAMBOAT MAP
Overnight campout for Men. Great 360° views of the Rogue/Umpqua National Forest. QUARTZ MOUNTAIN MAP
Overnight campout for Men. Situated on a great camp spot and swimming hole. TRINITY RIVER HEALY CAMP MAP
Overnight campout for Men. Situated on a great camp spot and swimming hole. ELLIOTT CREEK MAP
Overnight campout for men in a remote wilderness experience! THE RED BUTTES MAP
Overnight campout for men in a remote in the siskiyou mountain range. THE WRANGLE GAP MAP
Overnight campout for men in the base of the Red Butte Mountain Range. THE STEVES FORK MAP
Overnight campout for Men. Great 360° views of the Rogue/Umpqua National Forest. QUARTZ MOUNTAIN MAP
Overnight campout for Men. Situated on a great camp spot and swimming hole. TRINITY RIVER HEALY CAMP MAP
Overnight campout for Men. Situated on a great camp spot and swimming hole. ELLIOTT CREEK MAP
Overnight campout for men in a remote wilderness experience! THE RED BUTTES MAP
Overnight campout for men in a remote in the siskiyou mountain range. THE WRANGLE GAP MAP
Overnight campout for men in the base of the Red Butte Mountain Range. THE STEVES FORK MAP
What ya need to know!
BOONDOCK SQUAT'N is formatted as a simple and relaxed way to gather men who need to blow a little steam.
It is an opportunity to journey together, share story, and reconnect with the Path of Jesus.
It's the place where you can let it all hang out and at the same time get on course.
We are not gathering with the purpose of running-a-muck but with the intention of getting our bearings as men.
We're here to encourage one another, discover what God is doing in each others story, have an adventure, breath a little, and be the men God has purposed us to be. The 2022 Season Fireside Topics will be excerpts from the book "The Map of Sonship" by John Fairrington. Download the pdf above.
It is an opportunity to journey together, share story, and reconnect with the Path of Jesus.
It's the place where you can let it all hang out and at the same time get on course.
We are not gathering with the purpose of running-a-muck but with the intention of getting our bearings as men.
We're here to encourage one another, discover what God is doing in each others story, have an adventure, breath a little, and be the men God has purposed us to be. The 2022 Season Fireside Topics will be excerpts from the book "The Map of Sonship" by John Fairrington. Download the pdf above.
Adventure
Because men don't naturally prioritize the need to decompress in their own lives, we have a heart to develop that opportunity. Boondock Squat'n gathers monthly somewhere in a backcountry setting where we can make fire, cook meat, bring our stories, open a bible, brainstorm a little, sleep under the stars, and then get back into the flow of letting God author our story. The whole goal is to keep each other in the saddle and hang on a little longer, in a very informal and unformatted way. We really enjoy getting men together and encouraging each other in a simplistic setting that teaches men how to buck in the ways God has hard wired us to right out of the gate! The cost for these events is $20 (You can't even buy your buddy lunch for that!)
What You Bring.
This is strictly run what'cha brung so everything you need to stay dry and warm, sleep in a tent, sleep in your car, it's up to you! Pack what you like to grill and we'll make fire! Bring enough food for dinner and breakfast, your beverages, guns, swim trunks, and whatever else you want to throw in at the last minute. Just remember! It's only over night and It's the equivalent of a mens night out but we only call it Boondock Squat'n because anything else would be just wrong!
Share Your Story
Story must go far deeper than just a simple adventure. It must venture deeper than just our activities and achievements. It must bear and share the very depths of what is going on in the heart even if it's messy. More complete stories nourish us. They provide a kind of food that the soul craves. Stories help us identify what is the true reality of living because of what we find in someone else's story, something that will help us understand our own. When we share and bear another person's story, the reality of their story illuminates the reality our daily story. Stories shed light on our lives and intrinsically link us together not because misery loves company but because when we are live in Christ we are family, and as men we need a good posse around us!.
This years Challenge comes from the Map OF Sonship
“Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son,”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming.
This opportunity for men is not offered as sanctimonious advice from someone who has never suffered from the blows from their own depravity, gotten their hands dirty, or had their heart broken. It is presented to you as an encouragement to go where most men do not go. It is an invitation to embark on a new journey and a call to courageously pursue the things that are real, honest, and true. It is for the hungry soul who is daring enough to go against the cultural facades of Christianity and actually pursue the heart of God with voracity and the intent of finding our true calling.
If you choose to embark on this journey, it will require a trip into the basement of your own dark soul and then flipping on the light switch. You will have to turn over the skeletal lies, scars, and fears that you have buried deep within and begin to walk in the light as you see yourself through the lens of Jesus. This is where Sonship redeems an ugly narrative and brings beauty into it. Ask yourself if you can allow the scars of your story to become the proof that you have embarked on a rescue mission to steal back from the enemy, your own heart then replacing it with a heart after God. Will you allow the paradigm of yourself to be shattered in trade for the restoration of the one your Heavenly Father has written on your heart for you?
I want to challenge everyone who is involved in the "Boondock Squat'n" movement to awaken their hunger for moving forward in life with hope to live true, and to become the person that God can entrust with so much more along with the things that pertain to life and Godliness. Our prayer is that you will enter the quiet, unvisited places of your soul and then exit having redeemed the most radical reorientations of you lifetime. This is the life of Sonship!
Get ready to explore the way that God has hardwired us as well as understanding the desires that He places on our hearts. You are about to follow the simplistic Map of Sonship. Sonship puts us on the a path to fulfillment as men. The cartography of Sonship lays out the contour lines of a healthy, vibrant soul that has the heart of God. It is not the pursuit of power but a path of freedom that is only fully provided or realized through the Grace of the only begotten Son of God, The wonder working power of His shed blood, and the hardwiring that came through the intensions of our Heavenly Father and the finished work on the Cross of Calvary.
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming.
This opportunity for men is not offered as sanctimonious advice from someone who has never suffered from the blows from their own depravity, gotten their hands dirty, or had their heart broken. It is presented to you as an encouragement to go where most men do not go. It is an invitation to embark on a new journey and a call to courageously pursue the things that are real, honest, and true. It is for the hungry soul who is daring enough to go against the cultural facades of Christianity and actually pursue the heart of God with voracity and the intent of finding our true calling.
If you choose to embark on this journey, it will require a trip into the basement of your own dark soul and then flipping on the light switch. You will have to turn over the skeletal lies, scars, and fears that you have buried deep within and begin to walk in the light as you see yourself through the lens of Jesus. This is where Sonship redeems an ugly narrative and brings beauty into it. Ask yourself if you can allow the scars of your story to become the proof that you have embarked on a rescue mission to steal back from the enemy, your own heart then replacing it with a heart after God. Will you allow the paradigm of yourself to be shattered in trade for the restoration of the one your Heavenly Father has written on your heart for you?
I want to challenge everyone who is involved in the "Boondock Squat'n" movement to awaken their hunger for moving forward in life with hope to live true, and to become the person that God can entrust with so much more along with the things that pertain to life and Godliness. Our prayer is that you will enter the quiet, unvisited places of your soul and then exit having redeemed the most radical reorientations of you lifetime. This is the life of Sonship!
Get ready to explore the way that God has hardwired us as well as understanding the desires that He places on our hearts. You are about to follow the simplistic Map of Sonship. Sonship puts us on the a path to fulfillment as men. The cartography of Sonship lays out the contour lines of a healthy, vibrant soul that has the heart of God. It is not the pursuit of power but a path of freedom that is only fully provided or realized through the Grace of the only begotten Son of God, The wonder working power of His shed blood, and the hardwiring that came through the intensions of our Heavenly Father and the finished work on the Cross of Calvary.
