January 2024 ☃️
This month started out cold! My, Lee’s, office work consisted of wrapping things up for 2023 and getting tax paperwork out to donors. Remember sometimes ministry looks like sending tax forms to ensure supporters and missionaries are taken care of! It snowed here the third week of January and...
December 2023 🎄
Camp work continues in the office with processing payments, mailing letters, getting prayer guides out. If you haven’t received annual Prayer Guide (showing you all of camps ministries throughout the year) and want one, let us know! Tess.Sharp@campnathanael.org Christmas Play at Hindman Baptist! Piper, Jasper, and Jude participated in...
November 2023 🦃
Fall Weekend Overnights We had our second Fall Weekend Overnight the first weekend in November. Middle Schoolers (6th-8th Grades) came from Knott and surrounding counties gathered to play games, eat tons of food, sing, and hear about the Gospel. For some campers this was their first time at camp...
October 2023 🌳🌲🪵
Outdoor Education Wrapped up We finished out our last week of Outdoor Education the first week of October and finished strong! Overall we had over 3,000 students, teachers and parents come through our Trees-R-Terrific program this fall! Lots of kids experienced Camp Nathanael for the first time, opening the...
September 2023 🌲🌳
September began with finishing up preparations for Outdoor Education at Camp Nathanael. Camp hosted it’s 1st Annual Father & Son Hike (which Jasper and Lee went on)! And soon afterwards Camp was transformed into a field trip all about Trees. The Trees-R-Terrific program teaches students about trees (if it...
August 2023
After Summer Camp we took a quick trip to visit with some family. We then began gearing up for our Fall events. The biggest being Outdoor Education: Trees-R-Terrific! We are learning all about trees this fall and will have school groups near and far join us to learn about...
July 2023
Summer Camp: Challenge Accepted Wrap-up Camp has wrapped up and it was a blast. We finished up 3 weeks of camp in July (Family Camp, Middle School Week #2, Grade School Week #2). Tess, along with some Summer Missionaries, took care of most of the kids of full time...
June 2023
Sunday starts our Family Camp week at Camp Nathanael and we have just finished up 4 weeks of Summer Camp so far. Kid’s Club! Tess has been leading the Kid’s Club this Summer which takes care of the many children of Mission Members and children of speakers/missionary speakers that...
May 2023
Today begins training for our summer missionaries (high schoolers and college students) who will be serving alongside us in Summer Camp Ministry. Prep for Camp May was filled with projects. May 8th-12th was our annual Work Week, which consists of daily times of worship together with the full staff...
April 2023
April was filled with lots of activity at camp! The Women’s Retreat was an overnight retreat this spring and was so refreshing to get together and learn more about God’s word while spending time with other women. Celia Jimenez was the speaker and she did a fantastic job! Celia...