Staff Members Alyssa and Peggy join Pete in moment together during the ceremony. Photo: Greg Nelson
Our Organizational Partners:
Wallowa Lake Grows Its Deep Relationships
Foundation 6: Partner with Local churches and Church-Related Organizations
by Peggy Lovegren, Director of Wallowa Lake Camp
One of our goals at Wallowa Lake Camp is to support God’s churches in fulfilling their missions. We also aim to support all God’s ministries and the agencies that support God’s ministries in this world. Here, we do this by being actively involved in our local church, Joseph United Methodist Church.
We’ve sat down with pastors to ask and listen to how our camps can help with their ministry. We encourage pastors and church staff to discuss with us how we can be an asset to their ministries!
We reach out to churches everywhere to encourage them to partner with us to organize and/or attend church family retreats, youth retreats, group retreats etc… which are known to benefit congregations. We also encourage pastors and church staff to take personal/professional retreats at camp to renew and rejuvenate.
Furthermore, people of all ages in all of our local faith community contexts are able to grow spiritually by volunteering at camp in fun ways, often learning new skills or sharing skills and expertise that they can take back home - or continue to hone at camp!
This coming summer we will once again have three youth horse camps. We reach out to churches to send young people to these camps, especially young people that would not normally be able to afford such camps and to use our financial scholarships if needed.
In the spirit of collaboration across our organizational partners, we are blessed to work with a long list of wonderful agencies including; the Nez Perce (Niimiipuu) Tribe, Nez Perce Fisheries, a number of colleges, Soroptomist, Wallowa Music Alliance, Brass & Woodwinds @ Wallowa, the Village at Wallowa Lake, Red Horse, Backyard Gardens, many churches of many denominations, Tuesday Trekkers, Cascade Primetimers, Joseph House, and many more.
We are happy to say we have a great history of mutual support and engagement with our partners and love that people know us as having Open Doors, Open Hearts and Open Minds!
Peace,
Peggy
Wallowa Lake's Beautiful Example of Collaboration
One of the most profound examples of collaboration between the the camp, the United Methodist Church, and the Nez Perce people occurred when the Oregon-Idaho Conference approved the return of a 1.5 acre parcel of prime Wallowa River-front land to the Nez Perce Nation. This act represented a significant step in the reparation and reconciliation work that Oregon-Idaho United Methodists continue to do in relationship with our indigenous siblings. (See that full story here)
Also, click the image below to see the story about how this gift came to pass.
"Shower" Wallowa Lake Camp with Generosity!
by Peggy and David Lovegren, Directors of Wallowa Lake Camp
The old showerhouse interior. Help us update this space!
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Wallowa Lake Camp has also been blessed by a matching gift, this time from a man named Ray Johnson - a $25,000.00 donation if we are able to match that amount in donations!
Their ultimate goal is to raise a total of $80,000.00 to build a much needed new upper shower house to take the place of their current shower house, which has served the camp well, but needs to be replaced. Plans include 6 private individual shower rooms as well as 6 private individual toilet rooms, including one being ADA accessible. We've raised $11,750 so far!!
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