Needs List

Needs List

Providing quality Christ-centered camping experiences for you, your children, and your children’s children requires that Lutheran Island Camp & Retreat Center acquire and maintain the best possible equipment for our guests to use and enjoy. Listed here are some of the items we currently need. Please call the camp office to ask about the specifics of any items on the list so we can assure the best possible stewardship of your gift to the camp. Thank you!

3 Floor Heaters for cabins [$200]
Outboard motors (must be in very good to excellent running order)

Good quality grass or grass/alfalfa mix hay.

Saddles, bridles and other horse equipment

Long shaft outboard motor  Thank you Terry and Diane Rindal

Circular Saw in excellent condition (new request) Thankyou

Beds, kitchen table, chairs, mattresses for Retreat House. 

Fishing boats (must be in good to excellent condition)

Canoes, kayaks, paddle boats.

Trees (10 foot white pine, maples, oaks and white birch)
New windows for several cabins and house
Flat screen 17” monitors for computers
Portable projection screen Thank you!
New carpeting for the office in the ERC (approx. 68 sq. yards)

Wood benches and wood swings
Softball bats and gloves
New or "gently used" pool cues
Gasoline power washer 

Fitted sheets and sheets for 84" long mattresses.

New pillows and pillow cases.

Couch or small sofa for our office (New request)  Thank you St. Johns-Park Rapids

Playground Balls
Props & clothing for Skit Night
Campbell’s Soup Labels
Donated labor for cutting wood and clearing trails

Less expensive items:

Toothbrushes for guests who forgot to bring them

Small bars of soap

Sharpee permanent markers Thank you!

General books for our libraries

New and fire resistant Fall and Christmas decorations

Decks of Cards, new cribbage boards

Electric frying pan

Nerf balls, especially glow in the dark

Playground balls

Wiffel ball equipment

Plastic hockey pucks for indoor hockey

office scissors

flashlights

Extension cords (3 prong and UL listed)

Staplers for office (we need them again)

Plastic display stands for 8 1/2 X 11 sheets

Calculator with large display and paper tape

Five Gallon pails for Young Scientist program (we have enough for right now)

Unrestricted financial gifts to the Foundation that will be used for:
Help purchase and replace canoes
Purchase kitchen equipment (major items) and pots and pans
Tables and chairs
New beds in the ERC (We now have beds, but still need new mattresses) Thank you Concordia College and Eagle's bluff environmental learning center

Help fund a camp library
Continue work on Sunset/Sunrise cabins and unit lodges
Provide Camperships for children and youth
$100 per week to offset costs for utilities and cleaning for church worker use of log cabin during the
off-season.

You can support the ministry of Lutheran Island Camp either through financial or in-kind contributions. As a registered IRS 501-C3 organization, all donations to Lutheran Island Camp and Retreat Center are tax deductible to the extent allowed by current IRS regulations and state tax laws.

Our staff can assist you in planning for future gifts to the camp by means of estates, land, appreciated assets, and insurance. Call the camp office to arrange for an appointment.

Lutheran Island Camp & Retreat Center
45011 230th Street
Henning, MN 56551

Office Phone: 218-583-2905
Fax: 218-583-2906
E-mail: info@islandcamp.org
Web site: www.islandcamp.org