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Pioneer Wagon PIONEERS - Completing 6th grade 
Wagons Ho! Outdoor cooking, community building, cow milking, game playing, craft making, swimming and Bible study will fill your day before you gather around the campfire and then hit the hay in a Covered Wagon. At the end of the week you'll join in a traditional pioneer hoe-down.  Pioneer in the great outdoors!
Dates: June 15-20, 22-27, July 13-18, 20-25, July 27-August 1
Early Fee: $315

 

 

 

  
Ranch CampRANCH CAMP - Completing grades 6-8

Spend the week with the horses!  Learn the basics of riding and caring for horses. Enjoy all the usual camp activities as well, such as swimming, cookouts, Bible studies, and campfires.  By the end of the week you will be going on trail rides around camp, picking hooves, saddelling and unsaddelling the horses, and maybe even get a try lassoing!
Dates: June 8-13, July 6-11, August 3-8
Early Fee: $349

Night CampNIGHT CAMP - Completing grade 7 
Become creatures of the night!  As a night camper, you will experience God's Word and creation at night.  You will have great adventures as you experience and are challenged with night hikes, Ewalu's high ropes course, Bible study, late night (or early morning) campfires, discussions, and midnight swims.  Get ready for an awesome week of adventure and friendships!
Dates: June 8-13, July 6-11, July 27-Aug. 1
Early Fee:  $315

Pack n PaddlePACK & PADDLE - Completing grades 7-9 
Combine the best of three worlds:  camping, canoeing, and back packing.  You and your group will spend two days backpacking and rock climbing in Backbone State Park, hiking and exploring in the woods.   Then you will switch gears and head to the river.  Spend two days learning canoeing skills and exploring on the river. Each day will include Bible studies, cooking over a fire, discussions, games, campfires and more adventures than you can imagine.
Dates: June 8-13, 15-20, July 13-18, August 3-8
Early Fee: $329

M.A.D. CampM.A.D. Camp - Completing grades 6-8 
Go M.A.D. at camp!  (Music, Arts, Drama)  Enjoy a week at camp developing skills in music, art and drama, plus everything else at camp, like swimming, hiking, Bible studies and campfires   Electives during the week include guitar, photography, clay sculpture, and drama.  You will have the opportunity to develop your own pictures in our dark room, dig up blue clay in the river, then shape, glaze and fire your project.
Dates: June 22-27
Early Fee: $329

Ropes Course Challenge CONFIRMATION CAMP  
Experience confirmation in a whole new way.  Spend time with your pastor and confirmation class, but also meet new friends and great counselors.  Explore what it means to be in confirmation, and learn to understand your faith, all in God's incredible creation.  Talk to your pastor for more details!
Dates: June 8-13, June 15-20, July 6-11 Cancelled
Early Fee: $315

African VillageAFRICAN VILLAGE
Completing grades 7-9 and Youth Groups

For the last seven summers international staff from our companion churches in Tanzania and Namibia have served in our summer program.  This year we will have our African staff share their stories and culture in a more intentional way.  Come with your youth group to experience a bit of African culture including music, legends, art and language.
Dates: July 27-August 1
Early Fee: $315

Registration Information:  Register by February 28 for the Early Fee.  If registrations are postmarked after February 28th, add $10 to total fee, and after April 17, add $25 to total fee.  (Add $10 for Mini-Camp or Family Camp if postmarked after April 17.)  Sibling discount is $15 for each additional camper from the same family.  We must have your registration and deposit to hold your spot.   Financial assistance is available.  Contact Camp Ewalu for more information.

 
   
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Camp Ewalu
 
For more information contact: Jesse Klosterboer, Program Director.
Phone: (563) 933-4700 Fax: (563) 933-6022. E-mail: camp@ewalu.org

Registration forms are available at your local Lutheran Church

EWALU is a non-profit organization and serves all people regardless of race, creed, sex or national origin.