Erik Thoennes is Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Biola University and is a pastor at Grace EVFree, La Mirada. He was voted Professor of the Year twice, and was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award by his colleagues at Biola University. He is the author of “Life’s Biggest Questions: What the Bible Says About the Things that Matter Most,” and “Biblical and Theological Studies: A Student’s Guide,” Erik and his wife Donna have four children; Caroline, Paige, Samuel, and Isaac.

Please make sure that students arrive at West Hills Community Church office parking lot (at the bottom of the hill) by 8:00AM Sunday.

We will arrive back in Morgan Hill sometime between 2-4pm Saturday afternoon. Please make arrangements for your student to be picked up at that time. We will call ahead when we get close or if we are running much later than that.

If you need to request a special diet, you can do so when you sign up or you can go back into your account at hume.org. Hume Lake has adjusted their policy for special diets (find out more info here). Due to high demand and extra food costs there is now an additional $50 charge to request a special diet. Hume Lake does try to adjust for most diets in their standard summer buffet, but we do know that allergies and health restrictions can make it complicated to eat nutritiously at camp without a special diet request. Please let us know if this is a financial hardship and we’d be happy to discuss how we can help.

$20 for food on the way up to camp and on the way back. $50 recommended spending money. 
Bible, notebook, pencil, flashlight, sleeping bag, pillow, toiletries, warm and cool clothes, jacket, modest one-piece swimsuit (no tankinis)

Remember: 
Gals, no bare midriffs or spaghetti straps.
Guys, no sagging.

Drugs (unless prescribed by a doctor), alcohol, knives, tobacco, fireworks, firearms, electronic devices.

You may send mail to the following address:
Camper Name/West Hills Community Church
Meadow Ranch (date of camp)
64144 Hume Lake Rd.
Hume, CA 93628

During Thursday morning recreation we will kick it back to the old school days of relay races with insane amounts of fun and high energy. It’s the day in the week to dress up and go crazy with your Rec Team.

Why is camp so expensive?!?!
You may be asking a question we hear quite a bit. We are aware that camp is costly. Hume Lake provides an awesome program, quality speakers, band and it is a week where you get to hang out with your fun camp leaders! That’s right, we do budget our camp leaders into the cost since many of them take a week off work to come. We also budget the cost of the bus into camp since it is about 3.5-4 hours away we take a bus with all our stuff. Each year the price of camp goes up, this last year in particular the cost from Hume went up $20, so we adjust our price accordingly so we financially break even.

With that said, we don’t want the price of camp to be a barrier to you if you cannot budget it in this year. We can submit a camp scholarship to Hume Lake, and we have access to camp scholarships through our West Hills funds. We are also planning a pancake breakfast fundraiser for the spring for students who are in the Morgan Hill area and can work the event.