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...
Program Manager Appointed to Lake Huron

Program Manager Appointed to Lake Huron

Lake Huron Retreat Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Rev. Cora Glass as Program and Hospitality Manager, beginning May 1. With this newly expanded position, the retreat center will broaden its programming with an emphasis on spiritual growth, rest and...
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,...
Crystal Springs Remembered

Crystal Springs Remembered

A Camp Remembered as a ‘Deciding Place’ Life-changing decisions have been made at Crystal Springs for 160 years. Now, as the Pokagon Band develops the site, the Creator remains present, sharing “lessons in every leaf and rock.” By Kay DeMoss Senior Content...
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...