March 2025
What happened in March? The first weekend in March was our second ever College Retreat. There were many repeat campers from last years retreat with some new friends as well. Curt Vernon, from Commonwealth City Church in Lexington, returned from last year to speak and sing on Friday and...
February 2025 ❄️
February held more preparation for 2025 events at Camp Nathanael, planning and organizing upcoming events. Some visits to college campuses have happened this month to help recruit workers for the summer and other events and help make the students aware of Camp! Men’s Ministry The Men’s Ministry tried something...
November 2024 🌇
I am writing this after Thanksgiving dinner with family. We are hoping to be up in the Lexington area around Christmastime so we hopefully will be able to visit some of you in that area! What’s been happening at camp? Weekend Overnights We finished up our last Weekend Overnight...
October 2024 🍬🍭
October had us finishing up our Outdoor Education program and cleaning up. We are incredibly thankful for the people that came and volunteered. If this is something you want to help out with next year let us know! There are lots of different ways you can get involved. *Below...
September 2024 🐄🐎🕯️
Outdoor Education – Pioneer Days Another full month of ministry! Our Outdoor Education program has been exhausting, but amazing! We have had so many school kids come to our campus and learn about Pioneer Living and the ways God provided in those days! We are finishing up our last...
March 2024
March had lots of events at Camp Nathanael! We had a Men’s event the first Saturday. We had 60+ men in attendance for this event being encouraged to find their identity in Christ! We also got to compete in some axe throwing and clay pigeon shooting! Spring Retreats The...
February 2024 (Happy Leap Day) 📅
Projects! February is a short month with a lot packed in! We are starting to get really busy prepping for our spring and summer events. Lee has spent some time this month preparing summer Bible Classes (revamping after teaching last year). We also had our annual audit done by...
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...