A Ministry of the Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church

Volunteering at Pine Lake Camp!

Pine Lake Camp has been blessed over the years by many dedicated and giving people who have helped shape the camp into what it has become today. If you are interested in getting a group together to come and volunteer at Pine Lake please contact Camp Manager, Nick Coenen  Volunteer opportunities must be scheduled well in advance, especially during the busy summer season. Please be patient with us, we want to find a time just for you.

Pine Lake United Methodist Camp, May 20-25, 2012

Come join us! We will be staying in the Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader Retreat Center with separate rooms for couples and singles.  Rooms all have showers. Bring your own bedding. Our construction projects include: putting in docks, piers, & slips, adding handrails on the sides of the ramp that replaced railroad tie steps leading to Amphlett Hall; replacing windows with screens on Amphlett Hall; painting the office/nature center exterior; clean up logging branches; electrical work in Wildwood, variety of clean up jobs and more.   Cost: $150.00 per person.  Co-Leaders are Carol Culbertson, 243 W. Main Street, Evansville, WI 53536, and Don Mevis, Westfield, WI. (Click to download and complete camp registration form)

May 19, 2012 CHAIN SAW TRAINING COURSE FOR BEGINNERS

Led by Nathan Stanford is an Independent Chain Saw Safety Trainer who is highly qualified. Please bring helmet, ear and eye protection. Also bring work boots, gloves, chaps and chain saw if you have them. Dress for the weather. You will receive a wallet card for participating or attending a basic chain saw safety course.

1. Personal protective equipment
2. Equipment inspection / safe handling of equipment
3. Chain sharpening
4. Basic hazard evaluation / storm damage
5. Tree felling evaluation
6. Working with trees and branches under spring pressure