Are you wanting to reconnect, reminisce and renew? Join us this summer with fellow Alumni who have served the Lord by spending a summer at Camp Manitoqua! Whether you were here 5 years ago or 25 years ago or more, we want you to join with us again and reignite the sense of community this place creates!
August 8 - 10, 2025 - Register Here!
Schedule of Events
Friday:
- Overnight Guests Check-in (see more information below)
Saturday
- 9 - 11am Activities available
- 11am Morning Worship
- 12:00pm Lunch - Pig Roast
- 12:30pm - 5pm Activities available
- 5pm Dinner
- 6:30pm Evening Vespers
- 7:30pm Creamery Food Truck @ Camp
* Music at Morning Worship & Evening Vespers led by The DeGraff's (Curt '02, Katie & Gracyn)
* Speaker at Morning Worship is Mark Guthrie (2011-13)
**Activities include: pool, pickle shack, camp store, tree climbing, super slides, campfires with s'mores, food crafts, salvation bracelets, themed crafts, shaving cream wiffle ball, tie dye and more! A full schedule will be posted closer to the event so you can decide how to spend your day and of course, more than anything, we want everyone to feel comfortable just sitting around and visiting with others! We want options for both you and any family or friend you bring along!
Sunday
- Here is a list of local churches with Alumni on staff that have invited Alumni to join with them on Sunday, August 10:
- Living Springs Community Church - Glenwood, IL (Rich Albrecht, Cristin Verver)
- First Church, Lansing, IL (Ken Wojnarowski)
- Thorn Creek Reformed Church, South Holland, IL (Mark Morris)
Overnight cabin accommodations:
Overnight accommodations are available for Friday and Saturday evening in our new Acorn and Birchwood Cabins and the Oaks (formerly called M/N)!
The cost is $25 per family/per night. Reserve your space to stay at camp through the registration process here.
HOTEL BLOCK OPTION #1: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Country Inn & Suites located at 18315 S LaGrange Rd, Tinley Park, IL 60487. To get the group pricing for Manitoqua, use this link to book your stay for 1 or 2 nights. Cost is $174 per night.
HOTEL BLOCK OPTION #2: We have reserved a block of rooms at the Wingate by Wyndham located at 18421 N Creek Dr, Tinley Park, IL 60477. To get the group pricing for Manitoqua, use this link to book your stay for 1 or 2 nights. Cost is $149.99 per night.
Costs:
For both meals and lodging, please contact alumni@manitoqua.org if you need any assistance with payment! We do not want there to be any barriers to coming!
We will be recommending a $5 per person per meal (or $20 per family per meal) payment at the time of registration but will be taking donations to help defray the costs of the event.
Registration:
Is Open! Also, if you have not yet done so, please update your information to make sure you are receiving our mail and emails!
More than a reunion:
To expand the options available to alumni, the committee wants to do more than just provide fun activities for you to participate in. To also show support for each other and the ministry, we will be organizing these special events for alumni to participate in. Again, about a month before the event, we will email out additional information and invite you to begin participating in these:
- Silent Auction
- Swag Swap
- Prayer Request Wall
- Words of Affirmation Wall
- Missions Map
So keep an eye out on how you can participate and contribute to these events. If you have items you can donate to the Silent Auction, please email Leah Meskis at alumni@manitoqua.org or leah@manitoqua.org.
Questions:
If you have any questions, email alumni@manitoqua.org and we will get back to you as soon as possible!
Alumni Weekend 2015
On Saturday, July 25, 2015, we had the opportunity to open our grounds to 150 former summer staff and their families. It was a great day reconnecting with one another, grilling up burgers and brats, swimming in the pool, giving tours of grounds, and ending our time together with a time of gathered worship.
Check out some of the pictures from 2015.
During our time of gathered worship we had former summer staff share some testimonies about how camp has impacted their life. Mark Starr was unable to attend the event but he did send in the following letter:
So glad that people want to remember what God has done at Manitoqua in the past and reconnect with old friends once again. I wish that I was able to be there and to celebrate some of the things that God has done over the years and catch up with many of you.
Some may say that there is little value in remembering the past and call us a bunch of sentimental old people for doing so but the Bible shows us that there is great value in remembering what the Lord has done in the past. My hope is that as you remember what God did at Manitoqua many years ago and the relationships forged in the midst of that work, it will remind you of God’s greatness and encourage you to seek the Lord and His Spirit in the days ahead.
For me, this “place of the Spirit” was a witness that God could use ordinary people like me if He chose to do so and that Godly community can be an amazing thing worth working for. My hope is that you will enjoy your time at Manitoqua and it will renew your hunger for God’s Spirit and His community and ways in your life.
Sincerely,
Mark Starr