Ok, here it is, what we have paid out so far for the new dining hall, old dining hall, furnishings and labor-$338,000. We have had to borrow $26,000 so far for these projects. We know we have commitments from some of our supporting churches for this year to help us pay back what we have borrowed. 

Our goal is that by the end of 2026 we will once again be debt free. We will still need to raise an additional $63,000 to fully pay for the new dining hall, we are close to having all the furnishings we will need. We still have a few things in the old dining hall to fix so that we have good flow. We anticipate needing $100,000 to fully finish everything from the new building to landscaping the outside to blending the two buildings together. We have furniture to purchase for the porch and also the courtyard.

We pray if you have been blessed financially, that you would bless the camp financially. We need your help. 

The camp has offered financial assistance for many years, not desiring anyone to be denied a life-changing opportunity to attend camp. Last summer we gave 29 scholarships that equaled $5,200. Our scholarship fund needs funding. We have depleted that account and are in need of building it back up before summer. With our fundraising efforts going to projects, it has caused us to not get funding for this very important aspect of Hanging Rock. If you feel led to help with this fund you can donate online and put in the memo it is for scholarships. Thank You for your help. 

We wanted to give an update and show some pictures of this project. We want to thank Guy Phillips, Owen Moudy, and Casey Isdell for spearheading this project. It has been awesome to see the work that they have put in and the history behind the building.  We are close to having this building put back together for this summer season of horse camp. All that is left is putting up the inside wall and finish some outside things and the doors are being re-built. Then we will put everything back into the building. We are planning to unveil this building on our workday in May. 

From Todd,

I know it is cold outside, and some may be tired of seeing snow, but just wait. Summer camp is right around the corner! That may seem far-fetched, but it is true. Soon, there will be campers running around the field, worshipping in the chapel, playing paintball, sitting around the fire at wilderness, riding the zipline, trail riding on a horse, and jumping off the diving board. There will be a buzz around camp, and there will be thousands of mouths to feed too!

With that in mind, it is time to help pack the pantry and cleaning supplies again here at Hanging Rock!

We are in need of 1- and 2-gallon Ziploc bags, magic erasers, laundry detergent, paper towels, and blue Dawn dish soap. We are also in need of cereal donations. If you are not aware, we go through A LOT of cereal. Usually 10-15 boxes a day, if not more!

We are always blessed by your generosity in helping us pack the pantry with cereal! We are asking again for your help to pack it in 2025. Popular flavors are Lucky Charms, Froot Loops, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Frosted Flakes, Cheerios, Rice Krispies, but we will take all kinds! We are also happy with store brand; it doesn't have to be name brand.

Feel free to reach out to Todd Blair at toddblair@hagingrock.org to arrange pick up of those items, or to arrange drop off at camp! Thank you so much for helping us pack the pantry!

We have 3 projects that we have been funded for by a grant from the Wheeler Foundation of Illinois. This includes handicapped bathrooms for all 8 dorms, a handicapped cabin that will sleep 18 and a new handicapped lift for the pool. We feel extremely blessed by this grant. We wanted to let you know where we are at with these projects. We are still in the process of securing contractors, and we hope these will begin in March so we can have them completed by this summer. Our goal would be to have all of this finished by Celebrate Good Times on June 1, 2025. We are looking at putting the cabin close to the field restrooms where we can potentially add more cabins in the future.  We are looking at building off the end of each dorm to add the accessible bathrooms. So, the dorms would have bathrooms on both sides of the dorms. We want to give a BIG shoutout to David Meihls, Principal Consultant-ADA Consulting of Indiana for helping us achieve this grant.  Below is the drawing for the accessible cabin. We will add 3 twin beds in the middle that will enable this cabin to sleep 18. The other change is that that this cabin will be setup just like our other dorms, the accessible bathrooms will be on one end and have 2 accessible showers and toilets, we anticipate having 4 sinks.