Is Summer Camp Worth the Cost?

From the deep blue waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene that mirror the whispering pines of Camp Lutherhaven...

...to the cold, clear rivers of Shoshone Base Camp, rushing through the ruggedly famous, fir-clad Bitterroot Mountains...

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Summer Worship Services                   THRU AUGUST 16 Zoerb Chapel, Lutherhaven Join your Lutherhaven family for Sunday worship this summer! Bring a few friends, or come and meet some new ones!   Sunday Brunch by Reservation Only, 9:30 AM 208.667.3459 x 18 or Email

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Summer Family Camp at Shoshone Base Camp                    ALL SUMMER AT SHOSHONE Come as a couple or a family, bring the grandparents, a few good friends, or your club, neighbors, or group!   Find out more>>

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Annual 4th of July Festival Weekend AT LUTHERHAVEN  July 3-5 Optional July 2 overnight  Come as a single, a couple, a family, or bunch of few good friends!   Find out more>>

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Kindercamp AT SHOSHONE BASE CAMP  July 24-26 Campers aged 4 & 5 bring a Big Person to camp!   Find out more>>

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Mother/Daughter Weekend AT LUTHERHAVEN July 31-August 2   Find out more>>

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Tri-Cities Tribe! July 31-August 2 Join your hometown church family and local friends from around the Tri-Cities, Walla Walla, and Northeast Oregon for a weekend full of camp activities! For people of all ages and abilities! Bring a few friends, or come and meet some new ones!   Find out more>>

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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!! Wild Women Weekend! at Shoshone Base Camp August 7-9 Mountain bike the Route of the Hiawatha, white water raft Alberton Gorge, plus famous fun, food, and friends!   Find out more>>

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Palouse on the Loose! AT LUTHERHAVEN August 7-9, 2009 Join your hometown church family and local friends from throughout the Palouse for a weekend full of camp activities! For people of all ages and abilities! Bring a few friends, or come and meet some new ones!   Find out more>>

News  from Camp

Kitchen scraps headed for the Worm Wigwam Handfull o' red wriggler worms Finished worm compost 90 days out of the kitchen   We've Got Worms!! New composting system at Lutherhaven turns kitchen scraps to dirt   Twenty pounds (and growing!) of red wriggler composting worms turn all of Lutherhaven's kitchen scraps into rich garden compost, thanks to a new system that routes 25 or more pounds a day of "garbage" into our new "Worm Wigwam" or garden compost piles.   The teachable moment for school kids, campers and guests: a quarter of everything that goes into our landfills is compostable and doesn't have to be tossed out.   The worm composting setup at camp speeds up the process, turning vegetable, bread, pasta and fruit scraps into compost in as little as two weeks. The compost then goes into Lutherhaven's new vegetable garden, tended by campers and staff, that grows fresh veggies for the kitchen.   Lettuce, snap peas, green beans, cukes, summer squash, raspberries, beets, onions, and radishes are all coming on strong in the new garden.   Thanks to the Coeur d'Alene Basin Chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for their generous grant to help our garden grow! We're over the top!!   More than a quarter million in donations come in from across the country! Many, many thanks to the hundreds of individuals, churches, and organizations that contributed toward the Shoshone purchase! Without a doubt, each and every one of our supporters are key to making Lutherhaven Ministries the vital organization it is today! We thank God for you!    Murdock awards $300,000 Shoshone grant The Trustees of the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, Washington just granted Lutherhaven Ministries' $300,000 for the once-in-forever opportunity to purchase Shoshone Base Camp from the U.S. Forest Service!    Learn More about the Purchase>>   You may still donate to this awesome endeavor, as together we prepare Shoshone for generations of campers to come!     Pearl Zoerb, 101, standing with the new hammered copper and cedar Chapel doors, designed and built by former summer staff Dean Lenz of Spokane. Zoerb Chapel Dedicated   Lutherhaven's Zoerb Chapel was dedicated on June 7 with more than 325 camp friends attending.   Guests included summer camp counselors from as far back as the 1960’s alongside 60-some newly commissioned 2009 summer staffers; former Directors Ken Moore (1960’s), Bob Newcomb (1970’s), and Karl Petzke (1990’s), (with regrets from Margie Fiedler —1980’s—who had to be in Montana); Bishop Martin Wells from the Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod; Terry Stokesbary from the M.J. Murdock Trust; partners from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans; dozens and dozens of donors, volunteers, campers, friends of camp…   …and special guest Pearl Zoerb, 101½ years-young, long-time summer volunteer at Lutherhaven in the 70's and 80's and to whom, along with her late husband, Pastor Ernie Zoerb, the Lutherhaven Chapel is dedicated.   We have so much to be thankful for: God’s loving hand at work at Lutherhaven Ministries is clearly evident through awesome locations, expanding programs, remarkable facilities, dedicated servants, and changed lives.   Thanks... ...to the Neumann Family Partnership for their $50,000 Challenge Grant, to the M.J. Murdock Trust for a $150,000 gift, to Kiwanis of Coeur d'Alene for a $5,000 grant for Chapel A/V equipment and to the Northern Rockies Region of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for a $5,000 grant for furnishings; and to the literally hundreds of individuals and congregations who sacrificially gave gifts small and large to bring this fantastic project to completion!   $75,000 Thrivent Foundation grant Funds our national roll out of Idaho Servant Adventures!   Idaho Servant Adventures is Lutherhaven Ministries' new servant-leadership and community outreach program that draws youth groups from around the nation.   Primarily based from Shoshone, nearly 1,100 teens will have participated in the program by this summer's end, donating more than 17,500 hours of community service and outreach to our north Idaho neighbors!   Thanks, servant friends! Thanks, Thrivent friends!   Learn more about Idaho Servant Adventures!   Over $10,000 in grants from the Alpine Education Foundation of Seattle and the Idaho Community Foundation of Boise provide financial assistance for city and rural school kids to participate in Lutherhaven's acclaimed outdoor education program!   Thanks, friends, for helping to send needy kids to camp to learn about the beauty and wonder of God's creation! It's all part of our No Child Left Inside philosophy!   This spring's outdoor education program was filled to the brim at both Lutherhaven and Shoshone with seven straight weeks of school kids from across the region.   Teachers, parents, school kids! There's still space for his fall's program! What a great way to kick off the school year!   Contact us to learn how to get your classroom out to camp!   More about Outdoor Ed>>   Read Inspiration Point: our latest Newsletter>>   Join the Lutherhaven Ministries mailing list Email:

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