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Independent Christian ChurchKiamichi Mountains Christian MissionKiamichi Mountains Christian Mission serves churches and families through Christian camps, preaching training, evangelism resources, and…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission
Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission — Organization Profile Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission is a Christian mission and retreat campus near Honobia, Oklahoma, commonly associated with Christ’s 40 Acres. The ministry states that it has served Christians and their families since 1940…
Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission — Organization Profile Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission is a Christian mission and retreat campus near Honobia, Oklahoma, commonly associated with Christ’s 40 Acres. The ministry states that it has served Christians and their families since 1940 and describes its purpose as helping the church activate the power of God in Christian families. Its work centers on gatherings, camps, teaching programs, evangelism resources, and church-focused events. The mission is based in Honobia, Oklahoma, in the Kiamichi Mountains, north of Hochatown. Its stated scope begins with New Testament and Restoration churches, extends to other churches, and also includes secular institutions in the surrounding community. The organization describes its broader aim as building the New Testament Church in the…
Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission — Organization Profile
Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission is a Christian mission and retreat campus near Honobia, Oklahoma, commonly associated with Christ’s 40 Acres. The ministry states that it has served Christians and their families since 1940 and describes its purpose as helping the church activate the power of God in Christian families. Its work centers on gatherings, camps, teaching programs, evangelism resources, and church-focused events.
The mission is based in Honobia, Oklahoma, in the Kiamichi Mountains, north of Hochatown. Its stated scope begins with New Testament and Restoration churches, extends to other churches, and also includes secular institutions in the surrounding community. The organization describes its broader aim as building the New Testament Church in the Kiamichi Mountains, surrounding areas, and other parts of the world.
Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission operates through a mix of campus events, training opportunities, and church-support programs. Its recurring ministries include Christian Camping, The Greatest Gathering, Kiamichi School of Preaching, Kiamichi Jumpstart, Kiamichi Preaching & Teaching Clubs, Good News Game Company, and related special events. The mission also hosts event registrations and camp opportunities on its website, including First Chance Camp and age-specific Christian Service Camp weeks.
A key distinctive of the ministry is its focus on family-friendly activities that share the Gospel, encourage churches, and provide practical tools for congregational ministry. Kiamichi School of Preaching is presented as a training effort connected to preaching roles and Restoration Movement churches. Kiamichi Jumpstart is described as a way to help churches share the Gospel while building relationships in their communities. Good News Game Company provides Christian reality board games intended to teach practical evangelism and discipleship skills.
People engage with Kiamichi Mountains Christian Mission by attending events, registering for camps, volunteering, using ministry materials, and contacting the mission directly. The Greatest Gathering is held annually beginning on the Monday evening before Memorial Day Weekend, and camp registrations are listed through the mission’s special-events pages. The organization also notes that guests and partners may make arrangements to stay in campus facilities such as Legacy Lodge, A.B. McReynolds Guest Lodge, or other cabins when available.
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Independent Christian ChurchMuscatatuck Christian RanchMuscatatuck Christian Ranch is a Christian ranch camp in North Vernon, Indiana, offering youth camps, retreats,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch — Organization Profile Muscatatuck Christian Ranch, also presented online as C.A.M.P. at M.C.R., is a Christian-based ranch camp dedicated to teaching the gospel through outdoor camp experiences, worship, and community life. The ministry describes its work as…
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch — Organization Profile Muscatatuck Christian Ranch, also presented online as C.A.M.P. at M.C.R., is a Christian-based ranch camp dedicated to teaching the gospel through outdoor camp experiences, worship, and community life. The ministry describes its work as “making Christ real” and has identified its camp setting as a place where children, families, churches, and guests can learn, worship, and grow together. The ranch is located in North Vernon, Indiana, and serves campers and families from southern Indiana and surrounding communities through summer camps, retreats, Cowboy Church gatherings, and family events. Its setting is a major part of its ministry approach. The camp describes 250 acres of woods and pasture along the Muscatatuck River, with a lake, trails,…
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch — Organization Profile
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch, also presented online as C.A.M.P. at M.C.R., is a Christian-based ranch camp dedicated to teaching the gospel through outdoor camp experiences, worship, and community life. The ministry describes its work as “making Christ real” and has identified its camp setting as a place where children, families, churches, and guests can learn, worship, and grow together.
The ranch is located in North Vernon, Indiana, and serves campers and families from southern Indiana and surrounding communities through summer camps, retreats, Cowboy Church gatherings, and family events. Its setting is a major part of its ministry approach. The camp describes 250 acres of woods and pasture along the Muscatatuck River, with a lake, trails, cabins, animals, and outdoor areas used for recreation, teaching, and worship.
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch operates with a ranch-style camp model that combines Bible teaching with hands-on outdoor activities. Camp experiences may include swimming, hiking, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, horseback riding, campfire gatherings, music, recreation, and time with animals. The camp also emphasizes worship and spiritual growth through scheduled camp sessions, Cowboy Church, and special gatherings with singers and speakers.
The camp offers several described program areas for different ages and needs. These include Wee Wrangler Day Camp, Wee Wrangler Overnight Camp, Basics of Faith Week, Handi-Camp, Music Camp, Camp Classic Week, and other seasonal gatherings. The Handi-Camp program is described as serving disabled youth through adults, while Music Camp focuses on contemporary and traditional Christian music. These offerings show the ranch’s focus on age-specific and needs-aware Christian camping in an outdoor ranch setting.
Muscatatuck Christian Ranch also functions as a retreat and community gathering site. Its website notes that churches and organizations may use the camp for retreats, and its schedule has included family outings, Cowboy Daze, Wildhorse Ministries, singing groups, and Fall Family Round-Up. The camp’s current public communications also ask for prayer, volunteers, support for projects, and donations to help campers who are unable to pay for camp.
People can engage with Muscatatuck Christian Ranch by registering campers, attending public events, participating in Cowboy Church, bringing a church or organization for a retreat, volunteering for camp projects, donating toward camper scholarships, or giving practical supplies listed by the camp. Its distinct contribution is a Christian ranch environment where outdoor activities, Bible teaching, music, family gatherings, and service opportunities are brought together for children and families.
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Independent Christian ChurchHigh Hill Christian Camp and Retreat CenterHigh Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center serves campers, churches, families, and retreat groups through Christ-centered…Independent Christian Church · Missions
High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center
High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center — Organization Profile High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center is a Christian camp located in High Hill, Missouri. The camp exists to provide facilities and programming where youth, adults, and families encounter…
High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center — Organization Profile High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center is a Christian camp located in High Hill, Missouri. The camp exists to provide facilities and programming where youth, adults, and families encounter Jesus. Its public theme is “Christ in the Center. Kids at the Heart. Fun for All,” reflecting its focus on Christian formation, fellowship, and outdoor camp experiences. The organization’s core focus is helping campers and retreat guests grow in faith through Christ-centered programming, worship, recreation, and community. High Hill Christian Camp was established in 1954 on land donated by the Harold Nebel family of High Hill, after churches in eastern Missouri needed more space for Christian camp ministry. Its first…
High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center — Organization Profile
High Hill Christian Camp and Retreat Center is a Christian camp located in High Hill, Missouri. The camp exists to provide facilities and programming where youth, adults, and families encounter Jesus. Its public theme is “Christ in the Center. Kids at the Heart. Fun for All,” reflecting its focus on Christian formation, fellowship, and outdoor camp experiences.
The organization’s core focus is helping campers and retreat guests grow in faith through Christ-centered programming, worship, recreation, and community. High Hill Christian Camp was established in 1954 on land donated by the Harold Nebel family of High Hill, after churches in eastern Missouri needed more space for Christian camp ministry. Its first summer included 105 campers and 20 volunteer faculty in tents.
High Hill Christian Camp serves eastern Missouri, with support from about 30 member churches. The camp hosts more than 1,600 campers and about 400 volunteer faculty each summer, while also serving churches, families, youth groups, adults, and ministry teams through year-round retreat and rental opportunities. Its setting includes wooded acreage, outdoor meeting spaces, recreation areas, a lake, and facilities designed for both summer camp and group retreats.
The camp operates through summer camp sessions, volunteer faculty, retreat rentals, summer employment, church partnerships, and facility-based ministry. Its summer programming includes age-based camps such as day camp, first chance camp, elementary sessions, junior high camp, high school camp, and other camp experiences. Registrations include programming, meals, canteen, and a camp T-shirt, with sessions designed around the grade campers will enter in the fall.
A distinctive part of High Hill Christian Camp’s ministry is combining biblical teaching, outdoor recreation, safe Christian community, and local church partnership in one camp environment. The camp’s facilities include a large worship facility, two retreat lodges, three log cabins, a dorm, dining hall, outdoor meeting areas, pool, lake, and other recreation activities. Its retreat rentals support faith-based events such as leadership retreats, men’s and women’s retreats, youth retreats, church staff retreats, church picnics, day outings, and other gatherings.
People can engage with High Hill Christian Camp by registering for summer camp, donating, volunteering, applying for summer employment, serving as summer volunteer faculty, booking a retreat, joining volunteer work projects, or supporting special camp needs. Churches and individuals can also help with maintenance projects, provide labor or funding, schedule retreat use, pray for campers and staff, and stay connected through the camp newsletter and social updates.
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Independent Christian ChurchCrossing CampCrossing Camp serves children, students, churches, and guest groups through Christian summer camps, retreats, worship, small…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Crossing Camp
Crossing Camp — Organization Profile Crossing Camp is a Christian camp and retreat ministry connected with Crossing Church. The camp’s mission is to help people, children and adults alike, find an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Its programs are…
Crossing Camp — Organization Profile Crossing Camp is a Christian camp and retreat ministry connected with Crossing Church. The camp’s mission is to help people, children and adults alike, find an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Its programs are designed to create a safe, focused setting where children, students, churches, and guest groups can learn about Christ’s love, grow in faith, build community, and enjoy outdoor camp experiences. Crossing Camp is located in Rushville, Illinois, about four miles southwest of Rushville on Highway 24. It serves students and groups connected with Crossing Church campuses across Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa, including communities such as Hannibal, Jacksonville, Keokuk, Kirksville, Lima, Macomb, Monmouth, Mount Sterling, Pike County, Quincy, and Wever. The camp…
Crossing Camp — Organization Profile
Crossing Camp is a Christian camp and retreat ministry connected with Crossing Church. The camp’s mission is to help people, children and adults alike, find an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Its programs are designed to create a safe, focused setting where children, students, churches, and guest groups can learn about Christ’s love, grow in faith, build community, and enjoy outdoor camp experiences.
Crossing Camp is located in Rushville, Illinois, about four miles southwest of Rushville on Highway 24. It serves students and groups connected with Crossing Church campuses across Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa, including communities such as Hannibal, Jacksonville, Keokuk, Kirksville, Lima, Macomb, Monmouth, Mount Sterling, Pike County, Quincy, and Wever. The camp also hosts guest groups looking for a retreat setting in west-central Illinois.
The camp offers summer programs for students in grades K–12. Its Crossing Camps are designed for specific age groups so children and students can participate in age-appropriate teaching, worship, activities, and small-group relationships. Campers are placed in small groups with other students their age and paired with adult leaders who help guide the camp experience. The camp describes its summer youth programs as opportunities for students to encounter Jesus, have fun, build teamwork, and participate in community.
Crossing Camp also offers guest group opportunities for churches, ministries, schools, and other groups planning retreats, conferences, and events. The camp works with leaders to understand each group’s goals and help shape the schedule, spaces, environments, and activities around the event. Guest group facilities include lodging, food service, meeting space, recreation areas, and staff support.
The property includes 29 acres of retreat space with an auditorium, gymnasium, lodge, barn, station, marriage retreat center, café, cafeteria, pavilion, shower house, pool, lake, disc golf, field games, soccer, playground, and other camp activities. The facilities page notes capacity for groups up to 390 people, with an auditorium seating 325, a cafeteria seating 204, climate-controlled lodging, ADA-accessible spaces, and recreational areas designed for both structured programming and free-time activities.
People can engage with Crossing Camp by registering students for summer camp, booking a guest group retreat, volunteering, applying for summer staff, supporting the scholarship fund, inviting students to attend, or contacting the camp with questions about programs and facilities. Scholarship donations help children and students attend camp, and volunteer and summer staff opportunities provide practical ways to serve during the camp season.
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Independent Christian ChurchChile MissionChile Mission serves families, children, youth, and churches in Chile through Dulce Refugio medical housing, Campo…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Chile Mission
Chile Mission — Organization Profile Chile Mission is a Christian mission serving in Chile with a stated purpose of being sent out by the church to reach people, especially children, with the love of Jesus so they may know and…
Chile Mission — Organization Profile Chile Mission is a Christian mission serving in Chile with a stated purpose of being sent out by the church to reach people, especially children, with the love of Jesus so they may know and follow him. Jack and Janine Swanson began missionary preparation in 1992, arrived in Santiago, Chile, in November 1993, and the ministry later developed as an organized mission entity through the purchase of a ministry site in La Cisterna, Santiago, in 2001. The mission is based in Santiago, Chile, with ministry also extending to middle rural Chile, between Chillán and Concepción. Its work serves Chilean families, children, youth, adults, local churches, and people who travel to Santiago from other parts of…
Chile Mission — Organization Profile
Chile Mission is a Christian mission serving in Chile with a stated purpose of being sent out by the church to reach people, especially children, with the love of Jesus so they may know and follow him. Jack and Janine Swanson began missionary preparation in 1992, arrived in Santiago, Chile, in November 1993, and the ministry later developed as an organized mission entity through the purchase of a ministry site in La Cisterna, Santiago, in 2001.
The mission is based in Santiago, Chile, with ministry also extending to middle rural Chile, between Chillán and Concepción. Its work serves Chilean families, children, youth, adults, local churches, and people who travel to Santiago from other parts of the country for medical treatment. Chile Mission also connects with Christian Churches and Churches of Christ in Chile and with supporting churches and individuals in the United States.
One of Chile Mission’s main ministries is Casa de Acogida “Dulce Refugio,” or Sweet Refuge House. This ministry provides temporary housing with emotional and spiritual support for parents of hospitalized children and adults receiving medical treatment in Santiago. The residence operates on the mission property in La Cisterna, where families from other parts of Chile may stay while facing burns, cancer, transplants, and other long-term medical situations.
Chile Mission’s other major ministry focus is Campo Vivo, a developing Christian children’s and youth camp and retreat center on a 90-acre rural property in middle Chile. The project is designed to provide a Christian camp setting for children, youth, adults, church retreats, marriage encounters, pastoral restoration, seminars, and future community outreach. The land was purchased in 2019, and development has included planning, infrastructure work, roads, fencing, and preparation for future buildings and ministry use.
The mission has also been connected with community ministries such as English Club, a pre-evangelistic English-learning outreach, and teaching at La Casa del Alfarero, a Christian live-in drug and alcohol rehabilitation center for men. Some of these ministries are described as dormant or dependent on additional Spanish-speaking team members, but they show the mission’s broader approach of building relationships, meeting practical needs, and sharing Christian teaching.
People can engage with Chile Mission by praying for the monthly needs shared through its updates, giving financially, contacting the mission about serving, helping with Campo Vivo development, or participating in cross-cultural service opportunities. The mission also notes its need for Spanish-speaking missionaries or couples with skills such as counseling, construction, cultivation, animal-raising, and ministry support in Santiago and rural Chile.
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Independent Christian ChurchCamp IllianaCamp Illiana is a Christian camp in Washington, Indiana, offering summer camps, retreats, outdoor activities, service…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Camp Illiana
Camp Illiana — Organization Profile Camp Illiana is a Christian camp and retreat ministry located in Washington, Indiana. The camp describes its purpose as creating space for people to encounter God deeply and says it fosters transformative experiences that lead…
Camp Illiana — Organization Profile Camp Illiana is a Christian camp and retreat ministry located in Washington, Indiana. The camp describes its purpose as creating space for people to encounter God deeply and says it fosters transformative experiences that lead people to take their next step following Jesus. Its public materials emphasize summer camps, retreats, outdoor activities, service opportunities, and year-round ministry experiences for children, students, families, churches, and guests. The camp serves campers and partner churches across Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and the surrounding Midwest region. Camp Illiana is owned by Illiana Christian Assembly, Inc., which the camp identifies as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Its campus is listed at 723 E 450 S in Washington, Indiana, and Indiana’s youth-camp roster…
Camp Illiana — Organization Profile
Camp Illiana is a Christian camp and retreat ministry located in Washington, Indiana. The camp describes its purpose as creating space for people to encounter God deeply and says it fosters transformative experiences that lead people to take their next step following Jesus. Its public materials emphasize summer camps, retreats, outdoor activities, service opportunities, and year-round ministry experiences for children, students, families, churches, and guests.
The camp serves campers and partner churches across Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and the surrounding Midwest region. Camp Illiana is owned by Illiana Christian Assembly, Inc., which the camp identifies as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Its campus is listed at 723 E 450 S in Washington, Indiana, and Indiana’s youth-camp roster lists the camp capacity at 394 campers.
Camp Illiana’s primary ministry pathway is its summer camp program. The camp offers First Chance for kindergarten through 1st grade, High Five for 2nd through 3rd grade, Kids Camp for 4th through 6th grade, Epic Camp for 6th through 8th grade, HS Camp for 9th through 12th grade, and Unite for 7th through 12th grade. The camp also points college-age participants toward Best 8 Days and provides a Camper Guide, mission information, session photos, and other summer resources.
The camp operates through a mix of programmed teaching, worship, recreation, small-group experiences, and outdoor activities. Its activity offerings include ziplines, a giant swing, high ropes, low ropes, a climbing wall, paintball, lake activities, pool activities, field games, and team games. These activities support the camp’s broader ministry goal by giving students and groups shared experiences that can encourage trust, community, courage, and spiritual growth.
Camp Illiana also serves churches, schools, and groups through events and facilities outside the summer season. The website lists year-round opportunities such as the Ladies Craft Retreat, Dr. Overdorf Vision Night, facility use, and an event guide for groups planning gatherings at the camp. The ministry also invites people to serve through summer staff roles, serve teams, training opportunities, and a prayer team.
People can engage with Camp Illiana by registering campers, reviewing the Camper Guide, giving online, volunteering with the Serve Team, applying for summer staff, joining the prayer team, attending a retreat, or contacting the camp about facility use. Its year-round staff provide leadership for administration, camper experience, activities, and operations while working with ministry partners and the local community.
