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Church Profile: Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Students Take Their Faith to Their School Campus A significant part of Hume’s mission is to support and encourage many churches in outreach to their communities. A vivid example of this is found at Vineyard Christian Fellowship, a church of only 200 people, in Red Bluff, California. Dan Ackley, their part-time youth pastor/worship leader for [...]
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Volunteer Profile: Keith & Lola Hall
Faithfully Serving Together Fifteen years ago, Keith and Lola Hall were preparing to send their children to Hume one winter weekend, when Lola was asked last minute to attend as a counselor as well. It was her first experience at Hume and she instantly saw why her children loved coming. Keith, who works in the [...]
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Anticipating that God will Move
“Anticipating that God will move” That phrase says a lot. It can be found first on Hume’s official list of core values. It captures our past, present and future journey with an adventurous and miraculous God. This summer we anticipate that God will move as thousands of campers attend one of Hume Ministries’ summer programs: [...]
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Peace and Hope in the Midst of Chaos
With memories of the past year flooding her mind, Deborah is excited to leave Hume, knowing that what she’s doing is a part of God’s greater plan. It had not always seemed so simple in the past. After losing her mother-in-law a year ago January, Deborah had begun to feel physically sick. Nausea, dizziness and [...]
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Lessons from the Aspen
I love living in the forest. There’s something invigorating about watching creation in its seasons. In recent years I have been drawn to the aspen trees that are sprinkled throughout the Hume area. Their bright green leaves set them apart in the summer and their glowing yellow leaves in the fall make them (quite literally) [...]
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Behind the Scenes with Support Services
Old timers know it as “Accomo” (or Accommodations) but today we know it as Support Services or simply, “SS.” It is a critical department within Operations, that faithfully works to meet the needs of every Hume guest on the property. They attempt to eliminate any distractions so that every guest experience might lead to an [...]
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Creation Encountering the Creator
Seeing God Transform Lives through Outdoor Education There is nothing more beautiful than seeing the Lord transform someone’s life. It was incredible to see this happen each week during our Outdoor Education camps this spring, as students began to understand the true beauty of the cross and were challenged in new life-changing ways by the good news of Jesus Christ. [...]
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How to Have a Tax-Free Sale of Appreciated Assets
We Are Here to Help For those who made investments years ago with the future in mind, the future has arrived! Many of the investments made years ago have significantly increased in value. Now is the time to sell those assets and find higher income, but there is a problem. Few of us want to [...]
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Sandy Hook Students will Experience Hume New England
Hope in the Midst of Tragedy While sitting in an old rustic barn in Newtown, Connecticut (an amazing hangout for a youth group) with seven youth pastors and directors eating sausages and butterfly cookies, it was hard to imagine that one of the most tragic events in United States history occurred just minutes away, only [...]
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Phoenix Dark
Who do you say Jesus is? In talking to many youth pastors about their students during the summer of 2012, the youth team came to the understanding that there is a need to do a summer theme based on the life and death of Jesus. There are many Christians that say they know things about [...]