April Sugar Creek Bible Camp "Currents" Newsletter

Currents

Ministry highlights of

Sugar Creek Bible Camp

April 2023

Come 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 for 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 that are interested in making it a full weekend.

Please RSVP to the camp office by Tuesday, May 2 at 608-734-3113 or office@sgrcreek.org.

Volunteer Work Weekend Flyer

Consider a Donation to the Horse Project!

The horse project is a favorite way to support camping ministry at Sugar Creek Bible Camp. Congregations and church members often work together to complete a "horse poster." Each poster has 25 spots worth $20 each making each one worth $500.

Your gift of $20 (one space on the horse), collectively with hundreds of others, will help create opportunites for campers who will attend camp this summer. These gifts are vital to help provide a memorable and safe Christ-centered experience. We are proud to share well-maintained facilites and and quality programm staff with our summer campers and retreat attendees. The overall impact of the horse project makes a profound difference to the Sugar Creek ministry.

Last year we had a congregation member match his congregation's giving. What an amazing gift. Families will often sign-up for a square for each family member. We appreciate your support in any way you can give.

Please contact the camp office to have a Horse Project poster sent to you or your congregation. office@sgrcreek.org or 608-734-3113

LEAD Application Link

Summer Staff Application Page

Volunteer Medical Staff Needed

There are still several openings for summer medical staff. Weeklong medical volunteers are eligible for a one week family campership.

Do you have a medical background? Nurse, Physician Assistant, EMT, CNA, Paramedic, Doctor?

Sugar Creek is looking for volunteers to work a week of summer camp. Duties including camper check-in on Sunday, daily medicine disbursement, homesickness, and minor first aid.

Available Weeks

July 2-5

July 9-14

July 23-28

Call Greta or Stephanie in the camp office at (608)734-3113 or email office@sgrcreek.org for more information or to sign-up for a week.

Volunteer Medical Staff Guidelines

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

SCBC 2023 Bus Trips

August 12-18 Mackinac Island, MI and Shipshewana, IN (shows and more)

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 Crows are Cool

DID YOU KNOW...

- Crows have huge brains! They have the largest brain to body ratio of any bird. The brain to body ratio is one of the ways scientists consider and try to measure intelligence in animals. A crow's brain to body ratio is even bigger than humans.

- They have been known to use traffic to help crack nuts. Crows have been observed dropping nuts in busy intersections, then waiting for cars to drive over them and crack them open. That's not all though, these crows were seen actually waiting for the light to turn red to drop their nut. They fly away when the light turns green, then fly back to get their freshly-cracked nut at the next red light.

- Crows can remember faces and hold a grudge. A group of scientists conducted a study in which they wore masks while capturing and banding groups of crows. The crows learned to recognize the mask as a danger and would scold the person in the mask upon encountering them. Crows that hadn't encountered the mask started scolding as well. Over a five year period, the scolding doubled in frequency and spread almost a mile from the place of origin.

So be nice to the crows in your life! They probably know who you are.

Upcoming Events

"WISH LIST"

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 March, 2023.

In Memory of Given by

Mailyn Aasen - Marlene Swiggum

Maren Anderson - Olin & Arlette Knudsen

Dianne Johnson Bross - Kent & Renae Mikkelson

Rodney Bunkum - Bob & Sally Severson

Beverly Burns - Kim Champlin, Roger & Sheila Champlin

Helen Halverson - Adrian & Doris Hagen

Eleanor Klemm - Tootie Ties

Dorlene Krewson - William & JoEllen Mapp

Merlin Kvigne - Bob & Sally Severson

Susan Ludvik - Sonja Moe

John Monson - Roger Beckstrom

Joan Morkrid - Leland Ekum

Tilmer "Tim" Ofte - George Renner

James Schindler - Helen Kelleher

Gary Severson - Bob & Sally Severson

David Willmanth - Bob & Sally Severson

Congregational Donors

Barneveld Lutheran Church

Bethany Lutheran Church - Sandhill

Bethany LC - New Lisbon

English Lutheran Church - La Crosse

Evangelical LC - Mount Horeb

First Lutheran Church - Onalaska

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

Gifts in Kind

Sally Sletten - wooden turtle craft puzzles

Ryan Wuttke - 60" TV

Individual Donors

Joan Allen

Kevin & Betty Baird

Bill & Barb Beckman

Jennifer Bjorklund

Elizabeth Davis

Pastor Donald & Elizabeth Fox

Pastor Donald Glanzer

Charles Gustafson

John & Vickie Howe

Shirley Hummel

Pastor Joe & Brianna Iverson

Percy Jackson

Kyle Jaeger & Laura Mackey

Samantha Johnson

Daniel Kirschbaum & Jonathan Tippetts

Pastor Jim & Laurie Klosterboer

Jordan & Laura Lee

Pastor Steve & Stacey Meyer

Chris Mithelman

Constance Mithelman

Jack & Rachel Mithelman

Charles & Tiana Montgomery

Kate Moody

Alice Olson

Duane Olson

Colleen Schultz

Judy Schure

Peter & Susan Servais

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

Verna Wallace

WELCA Donors

St. Peter LC - Fennimore

Teresa Aakre

Curtis Bakkum

Rick Bakkum

Debra Belz

Thomas Belz

Suzanne Bartels

Debra Basett

Bernard Bjorklund

Jena Bjorklund

Jeffrey Brudos

Rodney Check

Donald Connelly

Mary Connelly

Steven Dilley

Diane Engebrecht

Donna Engel

Joanne Fitzgerald

Robert Forsyth

Arne Fremstad

Sheri French

James Gerth

Karen Gerth

Ted Glasbrenner

Laura Gonia

George Gunderson

Lon Hackett

Amy Hanson

Lynn Herrman

Karin Iverson

Shirley Johnson

Larisa Johnson-Tong

Bette Keehner

Edward Kimball

Gale Kimball

Lisa Kowalczyk

Merle Landsom

Patricia Larson

Aimee Lenth

Stacey Markuson

Floyd Mason

Keith Milner

Sonja Moe

Bette Pedretti

Bonnie Peterson

Judith Renner

Jaralee Richter

Diana Saegrove

Marcus Saegrove

John Samuelson

Paul Sannerud

Peggy Sannerud

Robert Schiefelbein

Sharon Schiefelbein

Robert Severson

Sally Severson

Larry Sletten

Linda Smrcina

John Solberg

Nancy Solberg

Carla Stanton

Jason Stanton

Lynn Susag

Patricia Swasko

Linda Thies

Rebecca Trefz

Geri Zauche

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