2022 Important Camp Update
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Hello all Lakeshore Center families and friends! We hope that you all are having a great start to your summer season. We here at Lakeshore are gearing up for a busy summer and have a couple of major announcements that we would like to make. 

Through an immense amount of discernment and debate we are unfortunately canceling all “Residential Summer Camp” this summer season. With our current staffing shortages we have discerned that we are not able to maintain and create a safe environment for campers to come and stay overnight at camp without more adult supervision. We understand that this may be hard news to receive since camp is such an important part of our ministry here at Lakeshore Center. We want to assure you all that we have explored every avenue possible in order to make camp happen but were unable to find a solution that maintained high standards of safety.

The other announcement is that we are going to have “Family Camps” running this summer. This means that all the camp weeks that got canceled will be opened back up for families or congregations to come and spend time at camp together. Families and congregations will be able to enjoy everything a normal summer camp week entails, giving numerous activities options for both youth and adults. With youth coming with adults to supervise them (1 adult per 7 youth) we will be able to free up our Lakeshore Center summer staff to provide programming and activities throughout the course of the day for everyone at camp. While this is not a new idea here at Lakeshore Center, doing family camp styled programs, it is going to be our first attempt at bringing this kind of experience to our community.

We know this is going to be a very disappointing decision for many, but we wanted to allow our young people an opportunity to come to camp nevertheless. As we restructure what our summer programs will look like, we will send out information as we create it. That being said; we are in the midst of creating a new series of Family Camp events on our website that families or congregations can register for.

We will provide an option for summer camp weeks that were already paid for to be applied to the Family Camp programs. If you and your family are not able to join us for the Family Camps this summer you will be receiving a full refund. If your family is not interested in coming to any of our Family Camp programs, yet still want to go to a residential camp, we have two partner camps in the Okoboji area that we can recommend to you. 

We encourage you to reach out to your families or church leadership to see if they have any interest in helping to make camp run this summer. We cannot do this without your help and participation. 
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Lakeshore Center is your place at the lake, come and enjoy it with us this summer!

Our Mission: To provide a sacred place and invites all to experience the life-changing love of Christ in the beauty of God's creation.

​Contact Information 

Office Number: 712-337-3313
​Emergency Cell Phone: 712-320-3313

Email: office@ilovelakeshore.org

​Director Email: tyler@ilovelakeshore.org