Summer & Specialty Camp Schedule

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Realizing that families have different abilities to pay, this year Lutherwood Camp and Retreat Center has instituted a voluntary three-tier fee program.

You may choose the tier that is most suitable for your family. There is absolutely no obligation to pay higher than Tier I, this is a totally voluntary program.

• Tier I is our base tuition level, that requires outside funding efforts to cover the direct and indirect costs of operating, maintaining, and upgrading the camp.
• Tier II is our partially subsidized level that covers about 80% of the true costs of operating, maintaining and upgrading the camp including our low camper to staff ratio and the maintenance and upkeep of our buildings, boats, equipment and island infrastructure.
• Tier III more closely covers all of the true costs of operating camp.

Children's Camp (Entering 1st-6th grades)		Tier I	Tier II	Tier III
On-Site Day Camp (grades 1-6)	July 6-11	$80	$80	$80
On-Site Day Camp (grades 1-6)	July 13-18	$80	$80	$80
On-Site Day Camp (grades 1-6)	July 20-25	$80	$80	$80
On-Site Day Camp (grades 1-6)	July 27-Aug 1	$80	$80	$80
Pioneers (A) 1/2 week (grades 1-2)	Aug 10-12	$145	$195	$245
Pioneers (B) 1/2 week (grades 1-2)	Aug 13-15	$145	$195	$245
Explorers (grades 3-4)	July 27-Aug 1	$290	$390	$490
Explorers (grades 3-4)	Aug 10-15	$290	$390	$490
Explorers (grades 3-4)	Aug 17-22	$290	$390	$490
Pathfinders (grades 5-6)	July 20-25	$290	$390	$490
Pathfinders (grades 5-6)	July 27-Aug 1	$290	$390	$490
Pathfinders (grades 5-6)	Aug 10-15	$290	$390	$490
Pathfinders (grades 5-6)	Aug 17-22	$290	$390	$490
On-Site Water-ski & Wakeboard Day Camp (grades 4-6)	Aug 10-15	$130	$130	$130
Middle Camp (Entering 7th-9th grades)		Tier I	Tier II	Tier III
Trailblazers (grades 7-8)	July 6-11	$290	$390	$490
Trailblazers (grades 7-8)	July 20-25	$290	$390	$490
Trailblazers (grades 7-8)	Aug 10-15	$290	$390	$490
Trailblazers (grades 7-8)	Aug 17-22	$290	$390	$490
Junior High Adventure Combo (grades 7-8)	July 20-25	$310	$410	$510
Adventure: Bike the North Cascades (grades 7-12)	June 22-27	$310	$410	$510
JR. Water Ski & Wakeboard Camp (grades 7-8)	June 29-July 4	$310	$410	$510
JR. Water Ski & Wakeboard Camp (grades 7-8)	July 27-Aug 1	$310	$410	$510
Confirmation Camp (grades 6-9)	July 13-18	$290	$390	$490
Confirmation Camp II (grades 6-9)	Aug 3-8	$290	$390	$490
Senior Camp (Entering 9th-12th grades)		Tier I	Tier II	Tier III
Disciples (grades 9-12)	July 6-11	$290	$390	$490
Senior High Adventure Combo (grades 9-12)	Aug 3-8	$310	$410	$510
Adventure: Bike the North Cascades (grades 7-12)	June 22-27	$310	$410	$510
SR. Water Ski & Wakeboard Camp (grades 9-12)	July 6-11	$310	$410	$510
C.I.T. (grades 10- 12) 2 week series	July 20-Aug 1	*	*	$425
Specialty Camps		Tier I	Tier II	Tier III
Learn-2-Row / Senior Girls (grades 9-12)	June 15-20	$310	$410	$510
Camp Shiloh	June 22-28	*	*	*
For more information go to campshiloh.net	June 29-July 5	*	*	*

Children's Camp

On-Site Day Camp

• Entering 1st-6th grades

Camp for the day! Come and experience the fun of camp wrapped up into an action-packed day of Lutherwood fun: hiking, swimming, crafts, games and activities that make the week special for your special camper. Plus use our staff to help teach your little ones about our theme for the summer, "Just For Life", through developmentally appropriate Bible Encounters and activities. This is the perfect opportunity to introduce your child to the joys of camp. This program runs from 9am to 3:30pm Monday through Thursday, and 9am to 2pm Friday. If you are interested in child care from 7am- 9am or 3:30pm-5:30pm, it is available for an additional fee. Cost: $80 Before/After Care: $65 week/$15 per day Shuttles available from Bellingham & Mt. Vernon: call for details.

Pioneers

• Entering 1st-2nd grades

Encourage the spirit of tradition, love, and camp in your children. The caring and excited staff at Lutherwood want to help them grow in their faith and plant those seeds early. These little campers will have the opportunities to experience the joy of overnight camping without being away for a whole week. This is a great introduction to camp for these campers. They will come home singing songs they learned around the campfire, talking about the cool crafts they made, games they played, and counselors they lived with and learned from, and much more.

Explorers

• Entering 3rd-4th grades

Finally you are old enough to spend a whole week at camp! A whole day filled with exploring Lutherwood favorites like getting down and dirty in a Lutherwood famous jungle thrash, games, friends, swimming, canoeing, tubing, ropes course and new and exciting ways to encounter God through Bible studies and creation. Come and try some fun activities this summer like THE BLOB! Blob your friends to the sky, shoot some arrows in archery, show off your latest tricks on the skate park, climb up and down the climbing tower, do more in-depth arts and crafts, play awesome field games like bocce ball and Frisbee golf. Learn about our awesome Creator through caring counselors who have devoted their summer to sharing God's love with your child! Give them memories and life lessons they can take with them forever.

Pathfinders

• Entering 5th-6th grades

Who is ready for an action-packed week at camp? Learn about your faith through scheduled Bible Encounters, Christian community, and the staff at Lutherwood who have given their summer to guide, teach, love, and have fun with your kids. Come join us on the 44' climbing tower and low ropes course, go tubing behind the boat, Blob your new friends, try out the skate park, arts and craft times, archery, a wild all-camp game of Capture the Flag, fun and laughter, a Lutherwood famous camp out night under the stars, and much more. Don't miss out on this awesome week at camp!

On-Site Water-ski & Wakeboard Day Camp

• Entering 4th-6th grades

Do you love the water? Do you love adventure? Come check out the awesome water-ski day camp just for you! Learn to water-ski, wakeboard, knee board, or have a tube fest behind the Lutherwood speedboats every day for a week. Come in the morning and get out on the water while it is still like glass, then participate in Bible Encounters and activities unique to Lutherwood. Get back out on the water and get your fill of water adventures on lovely Lake Samish. This program runs from 9am to 3:30pm Monday through Thursday, and 9am to 2pm Friday. Register soon because these weeks will fill quickly! See you on the lake!

Middle Camp

Trailblazers

• Entering 7th-8th grades

Get ready for the best week of your summer here at Lutherwood! A week filled with Junior High spirit, adventures, and fun. Come enjoy all the classics of camp, like swimming, canoeing, tubing, and camping out under the stars, yum…tinfoil dinner…. Plus try out some awesome new adventures with our Blob or the new skate park. Blob your friends to the stars on this huge air-filled pillow and then watch them splash down into the warm waters of Lake Samish. Or feel like climbing up our 44' climbing tower or doing archery? You will get the opportunity to choose your own adventures and grow in your faith through the summer theme: Just For Life! This is the most popular camp week of the summer and the perfect opportunity for you to be a part of it.

Confirmation Camp

• Entering 6th-9th grades

Camp is the perfect place to bring your confirmation group to learn about God outside the walls of your churches and inside the walls of God's creation! Inspire your confirmed to experience God in new and exciting ways through the joys of camp. Lutherwood is the place where they can come be with old friends and meet new friends, have fun, bond together as a group through challenges on the ropes course, see their pastors in a whole new light, and most importantly take another step along their spiritual faith journey. Don't miss out on this faith forming tradition that will keep kids coming back for more.

Junior High Adventure

• Entering 7th-8th grades

Junior High camping is where it's at! This is the summer to remember for the rest of your life! Picture this: waking up in the woods in our very cool forest village, cooking your meals on the open flame, rowdy games and songs, campfire skits and songs that will make your side split with laughter, wacky and caring counselors and a different adventure every day!! Hang from the trees on the high ropes course, climb the rocks of central Washington. Use the Blob to show your best impression of a flying squirrel. Or show off your skills during a famous tube fest behind the power boats. Other daily challenges might include canoeing, hiking, orienteering, and more outdoor living skills. Spend your days in the great outdoors and your evenings playing camp classics like capture the flag, going to campfire, and learning about your faith. Life is good! OAP….nothing quite like it!

Junior Water Ski & Wakeboard Camp

• Entering 7th-8th grades

Ski until you can ski no more! Board like you have never done before! This camp mixes all the elements of water, fun, and God into one action packed week. This is a camp that is great for any level of water-skiers and wakeboarders. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner who has yet to figure out their bindings from the flagger, or a professional jumping the wake and doing 360's. North Lake Samish is the place to be to find amazing glassy water, adventures with new friends, and learn what it means to walk wet with God. This camp offers a great opportunity to learn new water skills from Lutherwood's experienced staff while growing in your faith. You can test your skills on our ropes course, climbing tower, and zip line. You'll Blob, play capture the flag, laugh around the campfire, and experience God through Bible Encounters, learning to "Listen" and hear God. Bring your sun block, and see you on the lake!  

Senior Camp

Disciples

• Entering 9th-12th grades

How much fun can you pack into one week of camp? A camp just for High Schoolers! Check out the high ropes course, scream your lungs out as you zip down the speedy zip line, Blob your friends, hang out with your friends around the fire, stay up late building faith, bonding and having the time of your life! This is a camp you will not want to miss! All of these fun activities topped off with the chance to grow in your faith through worship, Bible Encounters, and small group discussions all geared towards people maturing in their faith just like you.

Senior High Adventure

• Entering 9th-12th grades

Who thought you could pack so much excitement and adventure into one week? Climb up the rock faces of Central WA, then rappel back down. Hang out at the waterfront Blobbing your new friends into the lake. Spend the day suspended in the air on our ropes course having fun, and learning more about yourself, your friends and your faith. Your days will be filled with adventures like rock climbing, white water rafting, tubing, and hiking. Spend your days in the great outdoors, learning to cook on the open fire and living in a forest village. Use your evenings for camp classics like capture the flag, campfire skits and songs, and Bible Encounters specifically for senior high age youth. Don't forget to bring a friend as you join the well-trained Lutherwood staff for this spiritually enriching week of adventure.

Senior Water Ski & Wakeboard Camp

• Entering 9-12th grades

Ski until you can ski no more! Board like you have never done before! This camp mixes all the elements of water, fun, and God into one action packed week. This is a camp that is great for any level of water-skiers and wakeboarders. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner who has yet to figure out their bindings from the flagger, or a professional jumping the wake and doing 360's. North Lake Samish is the place to be to find amazing glassy water, adventures with new friends, and learn what it means to walk wet with God. This camp offers a great opportunity to learn new water skills from Lutherwood's experienced staff while growing in your faith. You can test your skills on our ropes course, climbing tower, and zip line. You'll Blob, play capture the flag, laugh around the campfire, and experience God through Bible Encounters, learning to "Listen" and hear God. Bring your sun block, and see you on the lake!  

C.I.T. (Counselors In Training)

• Entering 10th-12th grades

Remember when you were younger and fell in love with your counselor and your dream was to on day be a counselor yourself? Well here is your chance to live out your dream. This two-week program is designed for the upper high school age student wanting to try out something a little different and challenging. The first week of our journey will start with group building, learning the ins and outs of camp both in the everyday activities and behind the scenes. Interview the full-time staff, spend time working the canteen, learn the art of counseling and leadership skills. But don't worry, there will still be time for Lutherwood classics like tubing, swimming, the Blob, canoeing, campfire, camp out night, skate park and all-camp games.

Our second week together is the chance for you to really shine. Each of you will be paired up with a counselor and have the chance to practice those skills you just learned. You will be in the cabins working side by side with our caring Lutherwood counselors and sharing your faith, energy, and love for camp with the kids in your cabin. And guess what…you will even get a camp name! Don't miss out on this chance to be a counselor for a week and touch a child's life and your life forever!

Specialty Camps

Adventure: Bike the North Cascades

Explore Washington’s beautiful North Cascade Mountains from the seat of your bicycle. We ride about 10-15 miles a day. This is a great opportunity for you and your group to grow, strengthen and encourage each other in faith and fun!

Learn-2-Row

New this year, Lutherwood is working with John Fuchs, head coach of Western Washington University's WWU women's crew team, to provide a "learn to row" opportunity. This program will run like many of our other weeklong resident camp programs, with the activity times focusing on learning the basics of sweep rowing.

What is it?

Two 2 hour sessions Monday through Thursday and one session on Friday learning the basics of sweep rowing. The program will primarily use eights, or 8 person shells.

What is sweep rowing?

Rowing is either done with two oars sculling or one oar sweep. We will teach the basics of sweep rowing. Obviously, in sweep rowing the crew must be made up of an even number of rowers and is always more than one. Two person shells are called 'pairs', four person shells are called 'fours' and eight person shells are called 'eights'. Eights are nearly 60' long and are the most stable of the three sweep shells. Therefore the program will be focused on these shells.

What is a coxswain?

A coxswain is also needed to steer and take charge of the crew. This person is usually smaller and sits at the rear, or 'stern', of the shell. So while the shell is called an 'eight', the crew that rows her is made up of eight rowers and a coxswain.

Who will be teaching the program?

John Fuchs, who is also the Head Women's Rowing Coach at Western Washington University, will be teaching the program. Some of his staff or athletes may also contribute depending on the number of kids in the program.

Why Lutherwood?

In addition to learning rowing skills, our staff will lead the campers in Christian community. We share in Bible study and worship together. Enjoy free time playing games, hanging out, swimming & blobbing. As these athletes are growing in the knowledge of a new sport, they will also have the opportunity to learn and grow in their faith life.