the camp hammer blog

Hey Friends!  Hope this entry finds you well!  Camp is buzzing right along with winter retreats and summer preparations.  Our new employees are doing an amazing job, and we are so excited to have them on board!

Eric and myself (Andrew), will be traveling to the Northwest next week to begin our first recruiting trip.  We will be visiting George Fox on January 18th, and will be at Seattle Pacific University on January 19th, and 20th.  If you will be in the area, stop by and say hey!  We’d love to see you.  If you live in either of those areas, and are hoping to interview, make sure you get your applications in!  Also, we have already recieved an amazing amount of summer applicants for this summer!  What a blessing!  We are excited to see who will be here in the summer of 2011.  We will be accepting summer applications until March 15th, so if you haven’t applied yet, and are hoping to, the sooner you can get it in, the better!  We will also be traveling to Southern California before too long, and will be visiting: Azusa Pacific, Cal Baptist, Point Loma, and Biola.  I will provide dates when they get closer!  In addition, we are hoping to be able to spend a day at William Jessup, and Simpson College in a few weeks!  It is going to be a fun year for recruiting!

Also, I know we have posted a lot about this, but don’t forget to register for camp before February 15th!  You get the great early bird discount, and won’t have to worry about registering in the spring!  It is a very sweet deal!  Alright, well, that is all for now.  Have a great week!  Hope to see you all soon!

Camp Staff.

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Hey Friends and Family!  It is another wonderful Friday here at Camp Hammer.  Unbelievable to think that it is officially Spring and that April is just around the corner!  In the coming weeks a lot of great things are going on!  We have had the Twin Lakes Church Men’s Ministry up here for the last several weekends working on the Cedar/Apostle Lodge Deck, and it looks incredible.  What an amazing blessing it will be to the generations of campers who will get to enjoy it!  We are still raising funds for the project, but God has been entirely faithful through the project, and his provision is evident!

Now for some really exciting news!  In the coming weeks we are starting all of the Program Projects for this upcoming summer!  We will start with the construction of Camp Hammer’s very first 9-hole Miniature Golf Course.  As of right now we haven’t named the course yet, so if you have suggestions, be sure to comment and let us know what you think the name should be!  It is going to be awesome.  I can’t wait to play put-put with the Campers!  The next project will be the filling of our pond.  We have been so blessed this year with the amount of rain that has come in, and as far as we can see, there should be no problems filling the pond again this year for all to enjoy!  Third, we will be putting together a brand new basketball hoop kindly donated to Camp Hammer!  So for at least a little while we will have a basketball hoop that doesn’t have a terribly flimsy rim!  It will allow for some great basketball games, and knockout competitions this summer!  Lastly, we are going to begin construction of our set for this years skit.  If you haven’t already done the word search puzzle in this years brochure, you better do it now to find out what this years theme is!  So many exciting things going on in these next few months that it is hard to contain my excitement!

Next topic is our scholarships.  Every year Camp offers scholarships to families or students who normally wouldn’t be able to attend camp for financial reasons.  Each summer we are incredibly blessed by men and women who want to support our ministry in this way!  If donating to our scholarship fund is something that you feel led to doing, please check out our “Give” section or call our front office (831.338.3200 x10) for more information!  Our hope is that any camper who wants to attend Camp Hammer, is able to, and that money would never be a hindrance to making that happen.  If you don’t feel led to give financially, or even if you do, please take time to pray for this portion of our ministry here!

Finally, if you haven’t registered yet, take some time in the next few days and register!  All that is required upon registration is a $50.00 deposit!  Camp is such an amazing experience where kids can be kids and grow to know a loving savior!  You can register by clicking on the “Register Now” tab on our home page!  This is going to be an incredible summer of laughing, loving, learning, and playing!  Don’t miss it!

Love. Peace.

Camp Hammer Staff.

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