Aldersgate Camp & Retreat Center
Located near Ravenna, KY, Aldersgate Camp & Retreat Center Offers a Christ-centered summer camp, with programs for all ages. Includes details of accommodations, a list of items needed, directions to camp, photos, history, and other information. Welcome home!
Aldersgate is seeking 2 Program Directors. Housing, utilities (and many meals) are provided. This salaried position is considered part time to average 26 hours/week. Other benefits include continuing education in skill areas necessary for this position; vacation; travel expenses; and various paid leaves. Position(s) begin January, 2012.
If you are interested or just want more information, contact us at (606) 723-5078 or email at aldersgatecamp@gmail.com.
On October 27, 2011 at a fund raising dinner for the New Aldersgate Camp Lodge and Dining Room, Lee Padgett, Aldersgate Camp Director, was pleased to announce the receipt of a gift of $100,000.00 from the J. W. Kinzer Foundation of Eastern KY. With this exciting gift the entrance and lobby of the upcoming New Lodge and Dining Room will be named the Lucy Kinzer Lobby.
The dinner, held at the Marriott Griffin-Gate Resort in Lexington, was a festive and joyful event with singing, sharing, testimonies, updates, and a challenge to all to give to this much needed new facility at Aldersgate. By December, gifts and pledges from that dinner had totaled $75,000.00. Of course, much more money is still needed and donations are welcome, but God has been good to us in 2011!
February 10-12: 3 Cottages, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Hill House
February 17-19: 4 Creekside, Hill House
February 24-26; Lodge, 4 Creekside, Hill House
March 2-4: 4 Creekside
March 9-11: Contact the Camp Office
March 16-18: Lodge, 4 Creekside
March 23-25: Contact the Camp Office
March 30-April 1: Lodge
April 6-7: 1 Cottage, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Cabins
April 13-15: 1 Cottage, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Cabins
April 20-22: 1 Cottage, Lodge, 2 Creekside, Cabins
April 27-29: Contact the Camp Office
May 4-6: 2 Cottages, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Cabins
May 5-6: 3 Cottages, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Cabins
Mary 11-13: 3 Cottages, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Cabins
May 18-20: 1 Cottage, Lodge, 4 Creekside, Cabins
SUMMER CAMP! REGISTRATION BEGAN JANUARY 25, 2012!
God continues to bless Aldersgate Camp abundantly, year after year. It is only through prayer that we are able to continue growing. This page will update you on what’s happening at camp so you can better support this ministry through your prayers.
Please pray as we continue to raise money for our New Lodge. Please pray for the means to make this lodge happen! We are well on our way!
Aldersgate Staff
Please continue to keep the year round staff here at Aldersgate in your prayers. Pray that God will continue to guide our decisions and bless us with the energy that we all need to fulfill His work. Join us in praying for new program directors.
Retreat Season
Continue to pray for an increase in numbers and great experiences at Aldersgate for our guests and retreat groups.
Summer Camp
Please pray for our summer camp 2012, our campers and our volunteer deans and counselors. Pray that God will continue to amaze the staff and campers during the summer months.
A groundbreaking ceremony at the 2011 Aldersgate Homecoming marked a new beginning for the proposed Lodge. Lee Padgett, Mandy Benitez, Dwight Rogers, Dee Reynolds, Phil Hogg, Mark Girard, and Teddy Poore all participated in the ceremony. The new state of the art facilities will include a new kitchen, dining space, meeting rooms, offices, a lobby, an infirmary and much more. Stay tuned for coming updates on construction progress.
Update 12/30/11:
Groundbreaking for the New Lodge and Dining Room was held during Homecoming at Aldersgate on October 1. A crowd about 100 persons braved the unusual cold to witness the event. Participants were reminded that “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it” Psalm 127:1. And… “the responsibility and the privilege rest upon us to cause a building to rise here that shall be a place of refuge and strength, inspiration and learning, rest and renewal to all who come home to Aldersgate” (adapted from the U.M. Book of Worship).
This new 2 story handicapped accessible Lodge will further the Aldersgate vision: “to be the best at offering Christian Hospitality, anywhere”. It will contain a 3000 square foot Dining Room for 200 persons, new kitchen, an adjacent 2500 square foot meeting room for 200, offices, an infirmary, meeting space, laundry facility, library, canteen, lodging rooms, and the Lucy Kinzer Lobby. Construction should begin in 2012.
