Tag: Hume Lake
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Save the Date: Hume Lake’s Volunteer Week is Coming this Spring!
Did you know one of the most amazing things about Hume is it’s volunteers? This May (May 13-16) is a key week as we ready camp for the summer season. Hume depends on your skills, talents, and passions in partnership with our staff to reach the thousands of youth, adults and families we share the…
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Stories From Camp: Winter Camp ’24
By: Analisa De Armas, Hume Lake Winter Camp Director As each weekend of Winter Camp has gone by, I have become more and more excited for students to sit under Solomon’s teaching within Ecclesiastes. In exploring this unique, poetic, and wisdom-filled book, the existential questions of teenage students have been brought to the table. Questions…
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Transformed By Visiting
By: Megan Boyd Megan attended Ponderosa as a camper and now is a mom and runs MOPS at her church, Redwood Chapel, in Castro Valley. She has three adorable kids and a husband, Aaron.
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Hume Loves Volunteers!
By: Morgan Zielsdorf, Volunteer Coordinator Last month I had the pleasure of running our Fall Volunteer Week. There was so much fun, food, and fellowship. We had a small, but mighty crew that came to help and many projects and tasks were accomplished. We are forever thankful for all they did! Here are some of…
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Haven at Hume
By: Justin Nunes, Adult & Family Ministries Director As the leaves change and the air turns crisp up at Hume Lake, Hume continues to be a haven for all seeking spiritual growth, fellowship, and the beauty of nature. This fall, we hosted an array of retreats that catered to various interests and needs. Here’s a…
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Art, Peacocks, and a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
By: Emily Marschner There are peacocks roaming the streets of Hume Lake. When they first showed up, it was quite a novelty to our little community. We’d dare each other to see who could get closest to (or even touch) one, we’d try and get the male (who is no longer with us, RIP), to…
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Hume Lakers
A special retreat designed specifically for those with a Heart for Hume! Hume would like to say ‘Thank You’ for your time in prayer, your efforts with your volunteer work, and your generous contributions financially. Your heart for Hume has significantly and directly impacted the lives of thousands of campers and visitors! This retreat was…
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The Power of Purposeful Pauses
By: Joshua Smith Every creative has to navigate a tension between two inner selves. Their artistic self seeks to express ideas and vision while their evaluative self measures, compares, and criticizes those efforts. These sides constantly wrestle like wolves. Which one wins? The one that’s most fed. So many creatives and would-be artists suffer because…
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Set Apart
By: Dallas DeWitt The Joshua Wilderness Institute, at its core, has always been a place for a young adult to be set apart. A place to remove distractions and focus singularly on who God is and how He desires them to live. JWI ran for twenty consecutive years before covid ended the year early and…
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A Church’s Perspective
By: Heather Mahoney Hume Lake means more to Crossroads than I can possibly communicate. Our church has had a relationship with Hume for almost forty years. Not only has God used Hume in major ways in my own life as a camper, He continues to move in some pretty special ways throughout our next-gen today.…