🍂 Fall Edition 🍂

Welcome to Boom Chicka News! Here you’ll find updates from Camp Calumet along with upcoming retreats, community news, ways to connect, and opportunities to support this place we all love.

What A Challenge!

Thank you, Calumet community! The 2026 Calumet Obstacle & Trail Challenge was an incredible success, and we are so grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

Thanks to the generosity and enthusiasm of our participants, volunteers, donors, sponsors, and supporters, we raised more than $47,000 to support Calumet. Even more exciting, in the final 24 hours of the Challenge, our community came together in an incredible way to help us reach our stretch goal!

Every dollar raised supports Calumet and helps ensure that more people can experience camp.

A special thank you to Thomas Henry Photography and to David Keroack for capturing the energy and joy of the day. Check out our 2026 video!

We are already looking ahead to next year! Save the date for the 2027 Calumet Obstacle & Trail Challenge on Saturday, August 28. We can't wait to do it all again!

Calumet Alumni Hang 🎉

We're excited to bring back a Calumet off-camp gathering for the first time in years!

Join us on Sunday, September 20, from 6:00-9:00 PM at Dorchester Brewing Company in Boston to reconnect with old friends, share camp memories, and meet fellow Calumet alumni from across the years.

Whether you were a trainee, counselor, summer staff or off-season staff member, we'd love to see you there. Feel free to bring a spouse, partner or family member.

Please register using this form so we know how many people to expect or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to let us know how many additional guest might join you.

And most importantly, help us spread the word! Share this page with your camp friends, text your old co-counselors, and let anyone from your Calumet days know they're invited. We want to reconnect with as many alumni as possible!

A Beautiful Day at the Jackman Ridge Luncheon

The Jackman Ridge Luncheon was a wonderful celebration of the Calumet community and the generosity of our dedicated donors. We are deeply grateful to everyone who joined us and continues to invest in the future of Calumet. Our speaker Pr. Anna Tew blessed our time with her wit and wisdom.

The day also included the dedication of the Nellie Borrner Pavilion, a beautiful new gathering space built in Nellie's honor. We are especially thankful to her brother, Ernie Borrner, for helping bring this meaningful project to life. And a big thank you to Craig and Emma Niiler for providing music for the day.

Thank you to all who made this special day such a success!

Coming up: Fall At Camp Calumet

Fruits and Roots

Harvest Weekend

Pumpkinfest

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🏕️ Family Campground & Programmed Events

For families and individuals staying in the Family Campground, as well as guests attending Calumet programmed events like Women's Weekend, MLK Weekend, and other scheduled retreats.

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⛺ Resident Camp Group Retreats

For summer overnight camp registrations (Resident Camp) and groups looking to reserve space for retreats, conferences, church groups, youth groups, schools, or other organizations.

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Be A Calumet Ambassador!

Love Camp Calumet? Help us spread the word.

Whether you hang a flyer at your church, share one with your local library, post it on a community bulletin board, or tell a friend about camp, you're helping more families discover a place where they can grow, belong, and make lifelong memories.

Download the resources below and help bring a little Camp Calumet to your community.

Flyers Found Here

Staff Update

We give thanks to Stephanie, who will be stepping down from her role as Director of Development and Communications at the end of September. She will remain with Calumet through September 27 as she wraps up her work.

While Stephanie’s time in this role has been relatively brief, we are grateful for the energy, care, and perspective she has brought to Calumet during her time with us. Having grown up attending camp and serving as a counselor, Stephanie returned to Calumet with a deep personal connection to this community and a genuine desire to give back to a place that has meant so much to her over the years.

We are thankful that she shared her time and talents with Calumet, and we wish her all the best as she continues to pursue her love of music in New York.

Please join us in thanking Stephanie for her time with Calumet and wishing her well.

🏕️ Give The Gift Of Camp

Calumet’s Annual Fund helps ensure that no child is turned away from camp because of financial need, and that adults and families continue to find rest, renewal, and faith here.

Every gift — large or small — helps make the life-changing experience of camp possible for young people and families.

Giving Opportunities

Thrivent Members: New Ways To Support Camp!

Thrivent recently expanded its Thrivent Choice program, making it easier than ever to support the organizations you care about, like Camp Calumet!

What's changed?

More members can participate. Thrivent now makes Choice Dollars available to all eligible members.
Choice Dollars are available at the start of the year, meaning members can direct their 2026 Choice Dollars right now.
Members now have until December 31 to direct their Choice Dollars.

Thank you to all the Thrivent members who continue to support this ministry through Thrivent Choice!

🙏 In Our Prayers

We remember the members of the Calumet community whose lives touched this place in meaningful ways. We give thanks for their faith, their service, and the memories they leave behind.

Doug Bingham

Douglas M. Bingham, 76, originally of Qunicy MA passed away on Friday, August 28, 2026. Calumet holds his wife Barb and family in our prayers.

Allan Nelson

Allan R. Nelson of Covenant Living of Cromwell passed away on July 2, 2026. He was a tremendous musician, widely known throughout the area as a tenor soloist.

May they rest in peace and rise in glory.

Our Memorial Chapel is a place families often gather to remember and celebrate the life of those who have passed. If you’d like more information about memorial stones or holding a service in the chapel please follow the link below.

Memorial Chapel Information