Summer Camp training is happening! But May had a lot of activity as well! Couples Retreat We got to attend part of this year’s couples retreat! Rick Franklin, who has served with his wife for years at camp was the speaker. It was fun getting to participate and connect...

April was full of ministry, but very different from our traditional summer camp ministry. Most of our April events were geared mostly towards adults! With something most every weekend in addition to our normal weekday responsibilities, we stayed quite busy as we head towards summer. Women’s Retreat 🌻 We...

Our weekdays were normal in the office, but our weekends were filled with Weekend Overnights. We had High School, Grade School, and Middle School Overnights (Friday to Saturday Events) in March. Trails to Truth, the horsemanship ministry, continued as well. We had at least 2 salvation decisions over the...

We had our annual audit this month. We invite in a 3rd party CPA each year to go over our books. I am happy to report this went really well. Tess also helped me quite a bit in helping gather information and receipts the auditors needed. Why share this?...

Happy New Year! January was spent in the office, finishing paperwork and working on tax documents! Tess assisted Lee in the office throughout the month. The month ended with lots of snow! Lee made it into the office most days. The kids were out of school on some days...

Hopefully, you got our Christmas Letter at the beginning of December! It’s a little different as we normally send out our email newsletter and our physical Christmas Letter. This year, we opted to just send the letter in the mail. It may become a tradition for our November newsletters...

Outdoor Education We finished up our Outdoor Education program at the beginning of October. In total, we had 2,684 students come through our program this year, along with teachers and parents (3041 all together)! Everyone got to experiment and explore how God made our amazing world and familiarize themselves...

Outdoor Education: The Power-Packed Earth🌎 As this newsletter goes out, we are finishing up the last week of Outdoor Education, and there have been over 1000 (we’ll have better numbers at the end) students, teachers, and parents exploring Camp Nathanael. The program runs from September 4th – October 3rd....

Trails to Truth We tried something new this year at Camp Nathanael: Horse Camp. Tess and I were not in charge but got to play a small part in an ever-growing ministry at camp. Our horse people, James and Hannah Bennett, lead the Trails to Truth program throughout the...

Finishing up Summer Camp The beginning of July finished off our summer camp season. It was a good season with salvation decisions made, kids grew in the knowledge of the Word of God, and a good group of summer missionaries (college and High School age) serving faithfully. We are...