Meet the Interns!
We are so excited to have three awesome people on year-round staff this Retreat Season! You may already know them from summertime at camp but here are a few fun facts about Linnea, Quinn, and Cody: Full Name Linnea Kay Anderson Age 22 School North Park University Alum Favorite thing about camp The waterfront…duh! Retreat Read More
Summer Snapshots
This past summer has been another one for the books. As always, God was moving in big ways. I was fortunate enough to get to come back to camp and serve as the Program Assistant. Through my role I got to watch the all the fun and games go down. The theme this year was Read More
Trailblazers Never Gets Old
This is my seventh summer working at Portage Lake, and if you add that with my three years as a Trailblazer camper, that would put me at ten summers of Trailblazer camp. Woah. Some would maybe assume that year after year, game after game, song after song, things would start to get a bit repetitive and Read More
Family Camp Recap
These past two weeks we have had family camps one and two and I couldn’t have had more fun. You will hear any staff member you ask tell you how the families have poured into us spiritually during their time here while we have been trying to pour into them. I value family camps so Read More
Dave’s 20th Anniversary Celebration!
In August of 1996 Dave & Kristen Nesburg moved to Onekama, Michigan with their three young kids. Taking a leave from his teaching career in Minnesota, Dave accepted the call to come serve as camp director at Portage Lake Covenant Bible Camp. Twenty years later, all their kids have graduated college, they have two Read More