5 Things Lutheran Camps Can Teach the Rest of the Church

I love camp. I truly do. I spent five summers in the midst of college and seminary on summer staff at Crossways – Pine Lake Camp in Waupaca, WI, (under the tutelage of Penny Christensen [current Executive Director of Lutheran Outdoor Ministries in Ohio]) and a year in-between college and seminary on year round staff at Lutherdale Bible Camp in Elkhorn, WI. I haven’t worked at a camp in a dozen years now, yet every summer I crave that intentional Christian community. Last week my family spent two nights among friends at Camp Calumet in Freedom, NH. In August both of our kids will go for a session of youth camp at Crossways (where my wife and I spent those five summers, and got married in the chapel). For years we’ve gone to family camp with friends at Luther Crest in Alexandria, MN where one of those friends, Dave Holtz, is the…