Currents
Ministry Highlights of
Sugar Creek Bible Camp

May 2023
April showers, snow showers, and more showers bring May flowers! Walking down the trail toward the log cabins I found a surprise patch of daffodils. Everything is starting to green up around camp.
Spring makes me smile.
-Greta
The weather is warming up, carts are on the course, and Sugar Creek is planning the Annual Golf Tournament!

Time to put the date on your calendar and start recruiting your team! Maybe your church council, bible study group or circle would like to share fellowship and support Sugar Creek Bible camp at the same time.

Also looking for hole and corporate sponsors as well as golf prize donations.
Contact the camp office for more information: 608-734-3113 office@sgrcreek.org
Come to the Volunteer Work Weekend to help prepare Sugar Creek Bible Camp for a great summer! Meet fellow volunteers, families, and church groups doing meaningful work. Help build, clean, arrange, and prepare the camp's buildings, trails, and equipment for a safe and busy season ahead.

Housing is available at no charge Friday and Saturday night upon request. Meals will be provided on Saturday. Freeman Lutheran Church and Pastor Lori Kleppe will also be holding Sunday morning worship with lunch to follow for those interested in making it a full weekend getaway. There is still time to sign-up!

Please RSVP at 608-734-3113 or office@sgrcreek.org.
September 22 Fireside Dinner Theater
"Titanic the Musical"
November 3 Fireside Dinner Theater "Scrooge the Musical"
November 6-10 Branson, MO Christmas Shows
In the Wild Goat Prairie
Sugar Creek did a controlled burn of the Goat Prairie this past week. Thank you to Andy Novak, Novak Built, and crew for donation of time and services to assist with the burn. Controlled burns are done in order to mimic natural fires that bring ecological benefits along with them. Without a controlled burn the natural fauna will be taken over. Because the prairies are definded as treeless areas, the invasion of trees and brush are the most common threat. Regular burning also reduces fuel loads and prevents more catastrophic wildfires.

The Sugar Creek Goat Prairie is located on the upper road between Koinonia Lodge and the Manna Center. Goat Prairies, named such because goats were the only livestock that could climb the steep slopes, or Hill Prairies are island like patches of prairie vegetation occurring on otherwise steep wooded slopes. These prairies are often on steep, dry, south-west facing grasslands in the Driftless Area of SW Wisconsin and neighboring states. .

These small patches will not persist in the future without management.
Sugar Creek is doing our part to protect and nurture the preservation of this important ecological area.
Grateful! Thankful! Blessed!
Memorials and Honorariums are one of many ways to support Sugar Creek. Thank you to all of you who remembered or honored friends and loved ones with a gift to this Bible Camp ministry.

Donors and Sustaining Givers...
Sugar Creek Bible Camp is blessed to have monthly supporters, known as Sustaining Givers, as well as regular Congregational Supporters (benevolence) and Individual Donors.

These gifts were received in April, 2023.
In Memory of Given by

Gary Everson - Elling & Joan Davig
Nels, Celia & John Forde - James & Clarice Toynton
Merlin Kvigne - Roger & Karen Swenson
Floyd McKee - Tottie Ties
Sharon Norris - Karrie Conn, Jodi Jansky, Jeanne Johnson, Linda & Joel Kouba, Cindy Kubicek, Doug Olson, Jackie Olson
Leonard Olson - Lew & Laurie Ellefson, Bob & Sally Severson
Nancy Swanson - Greta Greif


Congregational Donors

Bethany Lutheran Church - Sandhill
Bethany LC - New Lisbon
Evangelical LC - Mount Horeb
First Lutheran Church - Onalaska
Freeman Lutheran Church
Good Shepherd LC - La Crosse
Grace Lutheran Church - Darlington
Grace Lutheran Church - Elroy
Holmen Lutheran Church
Middle Coon Valley Lutheran Church
Our Savior's LC - La Crosse
Our Savior's LC - West Salem
St. John's LC - Boscobel
Westby Coon Prairie LC
Individual Donors

Joan Allen
Dan Amundson
Jennifer Bjorklund
Elizabeth Davis
Pastor Donald & Elizabeth Fox
Pastor Donald Glanzer
Duane & Ruby Granger
Charles Gustafson
Shirley Hummel
Pastor Joe & Brianna Iverson
Kyle Jaeger & Laura Mackey
Samantha Johnson
Daniel Kirschbaum & Jonathan Tippetts
Pastor Jim & Laurie Klosterboer
Jordan & Laura Lee
Michael & Karen Mahlkuch
Pastor Steve & Stacey Meyer
Chris Mithelman
Constance Mithelman
Jack & Rachel Mithelman
Charles & Tiana Montgomery
Kate Moody
Alice Olson
Duane Olson
Judy Schure
Wayne & Karen Sherry
John & Nancy Solberg
Pastor Jason & Carla Stanton
Gordon & Diane Stewart
Knute & Carol Temte
Mary Tesdahl
Pastor Eric & Megan Thiele
Pastor Andy Twiton & Kristen Swedlund
Judy & Paul Ulland
Verna Wallace


Gifts in Kind

Ralph Hendrickson - 3-wheel John Deere Gator and electric range
Paul Franzen & Sugar Creek Winery - fellowship refreshments for Annual Board Retreat
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