Everything we do at Look Up Lodge—from the teaching to meals and activities—is about maximizing opportunities for spiritual growth while your group is here. We often compare the Christian camp and retreat experience to the greenhouse effect. When you place a plant in a greenhouse—a controlled environment designed for growth—you often see exceptional growth in a short time. This is what happens in a Christian camp or retreat setting.
Growth is what we want for your group, both while you're at camp and after you leave. We want your group to grow deeper in their walk with the Lord and their relationships with your group.
Our goal at Look Up Lodge is to use the Christian camp and retreat experience not only to invest in students, but also to fully engage and equip church leaders. For just a few days, your group gets to take time away from the distraction of the world and focus on what matters: growing relationships.
Our goal is to remove as many distractions as possible so that your group can focus on learning Biblical truth, growing their relationship with the Lord, and asking hard questions. Beyond your time at camp, our prayer is that your group members use what they discovered at camp to continue to grow their relationships with the Lord long after they leave camp.
Our Guest Experience team is here to make sure you have everything you need and want for your retreat. Your options don’t end with running your own retreat. Our program team spends the year prayerfully preparing our Conference material and Summer Camp program. Conferences and Summer Camp handle everything including providing your group with thought-provoking questions and top-notch Biblical teaching from stage.
We believe the camp and retreat model is effective because it provides your group with the two important elements in a concentrated dose: relationships and time.
Leaders, children, youth, and adults will have more concentrated time with each other in a weekend retreat or one week of camp than they will in the next six months to a year of regular church events. When we speak of fully utilizing the Christian camp and retreat model, we mean giving your group opportunities to build deep and meaningful relationships with each other in a short amount of time.
Everything we do at Look Up Lodge—from the teaching to meals to activities—is about maximizing opportunities for spiritual growth while your group is here. We often compare the Christian camp and retreat experience to the greenhouse effect. When you place a plant in a greenhouse—a controlled environment designed for growth—you often see exceptional growth in a short time. This is what happens in a Christian camp or retreat setting.
Growth is what we want for your group, both while you're at camp and after you leave. We want your group to grow deeper in their walk with the Lord and their relationships with your group.
Whether you have an official church leadership role or God has placed you in a position of influence among your church’s children and teens ministry, you are called to guide, encourage and be an example.
We understand that the biblical model is for the church to build up its members. That’s why we structure our camp programs to help strengthen the bonds within church communities. As a church leader, you’ll experience Look Up Lodge alongside your campers—attending the same sessions, sharing meals and lodging, participating in games and activities, and even making unforgettable memories through our famous Slopstacle course. We want to strengthen your relationships through shared experiences.
While our summer camp staff is always available to help and counsel, we give you the privilege of being the “counselor” in your cabin—because we believe it’s important that your students learn to trust you and come to you with their questions and struggles.
If you have any questions about how Look Up Lodge can further support your church community, please give us a call—the church is one of our favorite subjects, and we’d love to talk with you.
Summer camp doesn’t last long, so we don’t leave anything up to chance. Whether it’s during worship, games, meals, or free time, we try to capture every moment in order to make the most of it.
You entrust us with your children and we don’t take that lightly. We make safety a priority: all of our summer staff submit background checks and are selected after a thorough interview process. They participate in two weeks of safety training that covers everything from kitchen safety to emergency procedures. In addition, our full-time staff has received specialized training from South Carolina law enforcement officers for specific emergency situations.
We work hard to make sure camp is a fun and positive experience—and with a 93% camper return rate, it seems most of our campers agree that we’ve been successful.
We want the impact to last more than just a few days while your kids are here. Our dynamic teaching is designed to help them understand the Bible’s teaching and apply it to everyday life. Our group activities are structured to help campers trust and strengthen their bonds with others in their church community.
Most importantly, we want to be a tool that God can use to help your children develop into godly men and women with a clear and communicable faith. If you have any questions about our camp, safety protocols, or programming, please give us a call. We’d love to talk with you!
