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Servant Events  |  Region 5

16 Tri-Park Way, 
Suite 104
Appleton, WI  54914
Phone:  920/882-0023
Fax:   920/882-9474


Contact:  Dara Stull

Our backyard (and beyond) is brimming with needs, opportunities and challenges to share the love of God. Here is the ultimate chance for campers to get their hands dirty through helping others. Clean a park, serve a meal to senior citizens, help fix up around camp and the community and so much more! This servant camp is the perfect blend of fun camp activities and meaningful off-site service excursions. Come to Waypost on Mission Lake and learn what it means to be a servant of God and make a difference in the lives of others.

Junior high
Custom-designed

FaithVentures

Spend a whole week building community and trust levels with your church group. This program is arranged for individual youth groups who want to experience life together, outside their congregation, in a whole new way. Site-based challenge course, worship, Bible study and classic camp activities are meshed with off-site service projects (food pantries, shelters, community gardens and various other projects) and adventure activities (climbing wall, canoing, rafting, etc.) that challenge and reinforce what faith is really about. This is a great program for post-confirmation groups, youth groups, or groups that are looking for that next great trip!

Senior high, young adults
Custom-designed

Mission:Milwaukee

Mission: Milwaukee is Crossway's new urban immersion experience your group just can't pass up! Crossway's will send your group down to Grace Place (our new site in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Milwaukee) for a week of service and learning in "Ole Mil Town." Your group could find yourselves working in an urban gardening project, serving food at a local shelter, being the willing hands for aging gardeners whose hands don't work as well as they used to, or doing a multitude of other things! Throughout the week you'll also get to take in some sites of the city through visiting a local beach on beautiful Lake Michigan, or event catching a Brewers game at historic Miller Park. Crossway's will provide your group with housing, meals, staff, and of course, a service learning experience that will change the lives of many.

Senior high, young adults (summer)
Families, young adults, senior high (non-summer)
Summer and non-summer opportunities
Custom-designed

738 Hickory Point Lane
Amery, WI  54001-5129
Phone:  715/268-8434


Contact:  Dave Peet or Erik Teig

In a beautiful, rustic outdoor setting, our International Village campers are welcomed to a Christ-centered, multicultural learning experience in God's family without leaving the United States. Without watches, we'll go by God's clock; without wheels, we'll enjoy the beauty of nature as we hike the wooded trails; without electricity, we'll discover other sources of power; without fast food, we'll enjoy meals and international food prepared over wood-burning stoves. We'll learn from each other, experience interdependence, learn about culture and how our actions affect our world, and grow in faith.

Junior high, senior high, older adults, young adults, families
Custom-designed

Journey of the Heart

This week is designed to help us understand the role of compassion and service in our lives of faith. We also seek to recognize Christ in each person, whether they are homeless, hungry, or wealthy, we can learn and grow with them. We accomplish this through a week of service-learning. We first participate in a low/high ropes challenge course to prepare our hearts and our group for a challenging week. We then participate in an experiential-learning program lead by educators that have been or who are currently homeless. We then learn and serve with multiple service organizations in the twin city area.

Junior high, senior high, older adults, young adults, families
Custom-designed

30376 Lakes Drive
Danbury, WI  54830
Phone:  715/656-7244
Fax:  715/656-3013


Contact:   Ann Treague

This mission trip is based out of Luther Park Camping and Retreat Center in Danbury, Wisconsin with destinations to the Duluth/Superior area and Burnett Co., Wisconsin. Take part in a Duluth experience to help groups experience the world of poverty and those living on the margins. This is not a typical trip and more than merely a retreat. Your group will be engaged by being lead through and experience living in poverty. Along with the immersion, groups will be working with Habitat for Humanity, the Twin Ports Ministry to Seafarers, numerous food shelves or other service opportunities in Duluth and working in the local area of Danbury and Burnett County, which statistically is the poorest county in the state of Wisconsin. Some of these projects could include our local habitat chapter, local food shelf in Webster and projects around our neighborhood.

Junior high, senior high, older adults, young adults, families
Custom-designed

Intergenerational Programs - Cornerstone Mission Trip

This exciting intergenerational program fosters relationships and strengthens faith in God while working on a mission service project at Luther Park. It''s a chance for youth and adults together to plan, work, play, study and act to commit to the mission of the church. It''s a time to share and grow in Christian faith and life. Service includes raising money to cover the cost of project materials, spending time at camp working on the project and participating in a program to build relationships between youth and adults. Cost is based on the project selected by the group.

Junior high, senior high, young adults, families, older adults

P.O. Box 239
Oregon, IL  61061
Phone:  815/732-2220
Fax:  815/732-7282


Contact:  Craig Watters
ACA Accredited Camp

Join us for a program that focuses on service and leadership in Christ''s ministry along with the traditional camp experience. Speakers and daily Bible studies will examine service through ministry to others. Off-site excursions will provide service opportunities in urban, rural and natural settings to local communities such as Rockford, Oregon and Polo, Illinois. Individuals will work with various organizations that provide services to the community such as neighborhood rehabilitation projects, housing construction and opportunities for service with senior citizens. Participants will also take part in unique camp experiences such as a half-day canoe trips, cookouts, campfires, hiking, swimming and arts and crafts. Groups will develop a sense of unity through the Team Building Course and other activities.

Junior high, senior high

PO Box 153
Chetek, WI  54728
Phone:  715/859-2215
Fax:  715/859-6474


Contact:   Mary Toufar

F.L.O.O.D! (Friends Living Out Our Discipleship) an urban servant event. Learn about city life and its vibrant cultures while pouring yourself into opportunities like serving at meal sites, hunger task force, homeless shelters, urban garden programs, and more. Join us for this life changing work.

Summer only, Scheduled at request of participant group
Senior high, Grades 9-12
Custom-designed

8450 E. Camp Amnicon Road
South Range, WI  54874
Phone:  715/364-2602
Fax:  715/364-2652


Contact:  Alana Butler or Simon Gretton
ACA Acredited Camp

An Environmental Mission Trip

Create a place for others to connect with nature while forging a personal bond with one of the top 10 hiking trails in the country! The Superior Hiking Trail runs from Two Harbors, Minnesota to Canada, along the largest lake in the world. You''re sure to have a greater appreciation for the trail after building part of it yourself, and you will have built the foundation for others to experience firsthand the beauty of God''s creation.

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, adults
Custom-designed

N7891 US Hwy 12
Elkhorn, WI  53121
Phone:  262/742-2352
Fax:  888/248-4551


Contact:  Jeff Bluhm

F.L.O.O.D! (Friends Living Out Our Discipleship) an urban servant event. Learn about city life and its vibrant cultures while pouring yourself into opportunities like serving at meal sites, hunger task force, homeless shelters, urban garden programs, and more. Join us for this life changing work.

Summer only, Scheduled at request of participant group
Senior high, Grades 9-12
Custom-designed

PO Box 4387
Rockford, IL  61110-0887
Phone:  815/964-8280
Fax:  815/964-8289


Contact:  Cindy Anderson

ZION Development Corporation Servant Leader Work Camp is a hands-on Community Redevelopment Program working together with ministry groups to improve and restore the MidTown area in Rockford, IL. Groups will work on assigned projects under the direction of CHOPPI Leadership Interns and ZION Development staff. Throughout the program, there is a woven importance on each participant''s potential. There will be opportunities to help, learn and get your hands dirty working on landscaping and neighborhood renovation projects, serve meals at a local soup kitchen, and just have fun while making new friends. Your work with us will not only improve lives in our neighborhood, but challenge you in new and exciting ways.

Summer only
Scheduled at request of participant group
Senior high, young adults, intergenerational, older adults
Custom-designed

37776 Alpha Avenue
Strawberry Point, IA 52076
Phone:  563/933-4700
Fax:  563/933-6022


Contact:  Jesse Klosterboer

The Chicago Immersion is designed for youth that come from a primarily rural or small town background. Participants will gain a firsthand awareness and understanding of the urban environment and its racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. The experience will include service opportunities and also a look at Chicago''s multicultural Lutheran ministries.

On Chicago Immersion, we will gain a larger perspective of life in an urban setting, including the lives of those who struggle first-hand homelessness and hunger. Through service we will learn how food is organized and distributed to those in need. Daily Bible studies will examine how God''s Word is relevant to different cultures and for all levels of socioeconomic status. We will take time to discuss and reflect on each day''s experiences. We will connect with you and with other volunteers serving on the front lines of the struggle against poverty to share our stories, challenge our stereotypes and develop a better understanding of Christin ministry in the inner city. A powerful, eye-opening and transformative experience for both junior high youth groups.

Junior high, senior high
Custom-designed

3383 Sweet Hollow Road
Big Island, VA  24526
Phone:  800/333-4597 OR 434/299-5956
Fax:  434/299-5949


Contact:  Steven J. Waldmann

Gleaning is the Biblical practice of hand gathering crops left after harvest. The Gleaning Network coordinates volunteer gleaners, growers, and distribution agencies to provide fresh produce for America''s hungry people. Growers offer their fields and orchards for hand gleaning by volunteers from church, schools, civic and other groups. The salvaged produce is donated to local food banks, shelters, soup kitchens and other agencies for free distribution to hungry children and adults. Tens of thousands of volunteers each year hand pick more than 15 million pounds of food to help relieve hunger in their own communities. The Gleaning Network operates in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and in selected areas of 20 states. Interested groups should contact the Society of St. Andrew office for information about gleaning in their area.

Year-round
Junior high, senior high, young adults, intergenerational, older adults

Harvest of Hope Mission Work Camps

Harvest of Hope provides gleaning and study mission work camps that educate youth and adults about the realities of hunger, its causes and effects. Harvest of Hope combines gleaning (salvaging fresh vegetables and fruits from fields to provide food to hungry people,) activities that help explore hunger issues and worship to build a Christian community of service to help meet the needs of those in our world who live with hunger and poverty. Harvest of Hope provides participants with a basis for an ongoing commitment to responsible living in a hungry world. Designed for youth, young adults and intergenerational groups, weekend and weeklong mission work camps are conducted in the summer and fall at various locations. Interested groups should contact the Society of St. Andrew office early in the year to register for Harvest of Hope.

Junior high, senior high, young adults, intergenerational, older adults

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