Gavin Austin, age 11
Cabin: Barbados
Counselors: Billy Shugart, Jake Mohan

What we do at Camp Leelanau

Camp Leelanau is awesome. You can do a ton of fun and exhilarating activities like nature, water-skiing, land-sports, Really Cool Activities (RCA), ceramics, silversmithing, and many more! You wake up to a canon and go down to dip, then quiet time. Next is flag raising, then breakfast. When we get back to the cabins we clean up and then go straight to activities. When we're done with that we go to bowl, which is followed by lunch. Then we go to rest-hour followed by afternoon activities, then flag lowering. Then we go to dinner and evening activities, showers, then bed. All the rest you will have to figure out yourself when you come to camp!


Andy Fine, age 15
Cabin: Cherokee
Counselors: Fred Morrison, Mitchell Wyly

A day for fun; a day for unity...
One of the very special things about Leelanau is that the bond between cabin-mates and counselors is so strong. We demonstrate this bold sense of brotherhood every Wednesday, which is commonly refereed as to Cabin Day. This particular activity is solely for the individual cabin so that they can bond and grow as both friends and spiritual developers. The activity can range from anything to waterskiing on Glen Lake to having a giant hide-and-go-seek game with the cabin. Today, for example, my cabin made the effort to carry a giant wooden raft from the end of the beach to the waters of Lake Michigan. With such a difficult task, the nine of us were able to sweat together and bond. It was a pure success. Cabin Day is for sure one of my favorite parts of camp. If a cabin isn't close to each other, the summer will turn for the worse. Leelanau provides such a strong structure for maturity and growth, not just individually, but as a cabin. There is just no other place on earth like it. Peace, love, and chow!


Reed Timoner, age 11
Cabin: Barbados
Counselors: Billy Shugart, Jake Mohan

Camp Leelanau
I'm a seven-week camper at Leelanau. I am 11 years old and I am going into sixth grade. This is my third summer at camp.

Camp started on Sunday. It was awesome because I got to reunite with the campers and counselors that I knew from last year. We went to the beach where I was welcomed by the frigid water of Lake Michigan that I oddly adore. Then we went to Council Fire, a hike up a hill which I well remembered, a sit around an enormous fire for as long as it takes, and the same hike back down. The counselors talk about their activities, we sing, announce awards, and the CT's did a skit. It's a lot of fun.

The first full day of camp was exciting. We wake up to a canon, followed by a dip in the lake. We come back to our cabins to have time to go over a section in the weekly Bible lesson. We then go to flag raising, then to breakfast. The food is amazing here. Then we come back to clean our cabins, then we go to activities. Mine are riflery and tennis. Then we have lunch and rest hour. Then we went to Bar Lake, where they test your swimming ability. We came back and had dinner, followed by a nice game of bombardment. Then we went to bed.

Tuesday was Phat Tuesday. We did nothing right because we switched the schedule, we dressed in clothing I vaguely remembered, and played fun games like Camo-Dodgeball. We climbed the wall and played on the front side of Sleeping Bear Dunes. I looked like an inside out Dr. Suess character. It was a ton of nonstop action and fun. Today is Wednesday; let's see what it'll bring us...


Lena Carlson, age 14
Cabin: Birchview
Counselor: Kelsie Brook

I love Kohahna! Kohahna’s for me!
As I look up at the great lawn and watch campers slipping down a home-made slip and slide, I can’t help but smile. Kohahna tends to do that to people. The experience brings out the absolute best in everyone. As camp progresses I see more smiles and how down to earth each and every girl is. It’s all extremely gratifyingand nearly poetic how camp works. To see the water front every morning, the soft pillowy canopy of trees, and my crazy cabin that is all smiles. The summer sessions here are truly magical. In the cold winters I spend at home I can only wait and hum my favorite camp songs.


Tink Dentz, age 13
Cabin: Birchview
Counselor: Kelsie Brook

Camp Kohahna for Girls
Laughter on the Great House lawn,
We’re at Camp Kohahna for girls.
Wind sings her gentle song
To Camp Kohahna for girls.
The sun sets,
Everyone to sleep.
Night brings the signal to let insects creep.
The sun comes up,
Rise and shine!
Time to dip and then we dine.


Sarah McNaughton, age 14
Cabin: Birchview
Counselor: Kelsie Brook

Kohahna
The cabins, located on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, the pine trees that grow up to the sky, with the sandy beach and the calm breeze that blows by. This amazing place is Kohahna. The campers arrive, the grounds burst with laughter and smiles. Friends reunite, telling of stories of their past year. Everyone is greeted like family with hugs and warm welcomes. By the third day the campers are all best friends. Each morning the campers run across the sand into the water and quickly dive, jump up, and run out of the water, back to their cabins to get warm. Campers love to have fun in warm summer sun. The food here is amazing. We love it when it’s time to eat. Camp Kohahna is an amazing place where there’s a wonderful understanding of God and everyone is love, loving and loveable.