Camp Impact Report

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The latest edition of the Camp Impact Report is here! It includes several highlights from the past year and exciting new directions for 2025!

In 2024, Camp Wapo, Ox Lake, and Wilderness Canoe Base welcomed over 11,000 campers and guests to experience innovative programs, special events and retreats, while building faith and community with others.

In 2025 we’re setting bold new goals to deepen faith, forge stronger community bonds, and pursue even more awesome adventures. Curious about the numbers, the stories, and what’s next? Click here to discover how your support is shaping the future of our camps. We can’t do this important work without you!

CAMP IMPACT REPORT

2025 High School Programs

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Women’s Wilderness Adventure

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Family Camp Shenanigans!

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New Roof, New Post

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America’s Best Summer Camps 2024

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For the second consecutive year, Lake Wapogasset (Camp Wapo) has been named in Newsweek’s “Best Summer Camps”. The American Camping Association recently released a study that shows why camp is important to those that attend as it “helped them appreciate the importance of being present in the moment.”

At Camp Wapo we know this to be true as we aim to to be a place of grace, forming people of faith…while being untangled from technology. Camp is a place where relationships can be nurtured and grow. It is a place where kids practice independence and leadership skills, ask questions and grow in their faith, and learn to be in community with others.

Do you still have space in your summer calendar for a camp experience? We have openings in many of our camp sessions for all ages…K-12th grade, adults, and families too! Reach out and let us help find you a camp session perfect for you, your family, or your kids!

Website: lakewapo.org
Phone: 715-268-8434
Email: campwapo@campwapo.org

Access Newsweek’s complete article and listing here.

An Invitation to Engage

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At Camp Wapo, Ox Lake and Wilderness Canoe Base, we take seriously the task of sharing God’s love with campers and guests through building relationships and creating community. We have the unique joy of engaging with others as we explore faith, sing praises, create art shop masterpieces, jump into the lake, and play games. Our goal is for each camper and guest of any age, to depart camp knowing they are loved by God, and cared for by our team and their cabinmates.

We delight in the opportunities to invite people to come away to camp. Jesus knew the power of personal invitations and the Bible is full of wonderful examples of how he often extended them:

  • Rest “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”  Matthew 11:28
  • See “Come, he replied,’ and you will see.”  John 1:39
  • Drink “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.”  John 7:37
  • Dine “Come and have breakfast.”  John 21:12
  • Take up the Cross “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” Matthew 16:24
  • Renewal “Come with me by yourself to a quiet place and get some rest.”  Mark 6:31

In all these examples, Jesus’s call is genuine, and it is personal. You and I are called into a personal relationship with our Savior and we are called into community with others.

This summer our sites and programs are packed with powerful and meaningful engagement opportunities:

  • Parents, grandparents, and church staff inviting and encouraging kids to attend camp.
  • New cabin friendships are forged by bravely sharing and trusting each other.
  • People discovering how strong and capable they are when they work together as a team on a canoe trip in the Boundary Waters.
  • Generous donors giving freely of their resources in order that ministry can be shared for generations to come.
  • Volunteers inviting others to come along and see how they can serve others.
  • Young adults answering the call to serve on camp staff for a summer.

Finally, this invitation for you to join me in supporting this ministry with your gift today.  Join the multitude of friends who share financial resources, time, and talents to support a camping organization that is making a difference in thousands of lives each year.

Your gift will serve as a powerful example of God’s love for the campers that we are preparing for this summer. Click here to make your gift today!

Gratefully,

Heather Eggert

Executive Director