Meaningful Summer Jobs

Meaningful Summer Jobs

Meaningful Summer Jobs for Today’s Young Adults  By Rev. David Berkey, Executive Director As you drive around the state you likely see “Help Wanted” signs everywhere you go. I would venture to say that just about anyone who wants a job these days could find one. Yet...
Wesley Woods Grant Paves the Way for NOMADS

Wesley Woods Grant Paves the Way for NOMADS

Wesley Woods Camp & Retreat will be installing five RV camping sites for volunteers to use while working at the camp thanks to a $43,000 grant from the United Methodist Camp & Retreat Ministries Association. “The RV sites were the missing piece we needed to be...
3 Gifts of Camp

3 Gifts of Camp

By Rev. David Berkey, Executive Director, Michigan Area United Methodist Camping If you have a child or grandchild, kids in your church or neighborhood, people you know of school-age, even youth and young adults looking for a summer job – NOW is the time to think...
2021 Flashlight Report

2021 Flashlight Report

Camp has never felt more aligned with what people needed than it did this year as we welcomed children, youth and adults back to Wesley Woods, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. After months of isolation and stress, your outdoor ministry sites came alive again with hope,...
Summer Camp 2021 Report

Summer Camp 2021 Report

2021 Summer Camp Beyond the Numbers ReConnect. ReCreate. ReNew. Rev. David Berkey, Executive Director It was a wonderful blessing to have summer camp return in 2021 at Wesley Woods, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron! The general theme expressed at all camp events was “You...
Fall Cleanup Days

Fall Cleanup Days

Volunteers are needed throughout our family of camps. Thank you for helping us care for them so they can continue to be places of spiritual growth and respite. Please consider spending some time at our beautiful camps helping prepare them for winter: Saturday, Oct. 1...
Investing in Improvements

Investing in Improvements

Your Prayers and Support Will Lead Us in 2021 Over the past few years Michigan Area United Methodist Camping has been through a time of strategic and sacrificial decision-making to come to a place of sustainability. And, along with every other nonprofit small...
Site Improvements – Wesley Woods

Site Improvements – Wesley Woods

Wesley Woods Improvement Projects Volunteers, staff and contractors worked hard through the summer and fall to make significant improvements all over camp. Completing the sale of other camp properties, while a difficult decision, has provided much needed capital...
New Executive Director Hired

New Executive Director Hired

Camping Ministry Hires New Executive Director Michigan Area United Methodist Camping is excited to introduce the Rev. David Berkey as its new Executive Director. David will lead the multi-site camping ministry in Michigan with his extensive leadership experience –...