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25 Ways to Gather

4/2/2026

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Looking for more than just a place to stay? Here are meaningful, memory-making ways you could use our spaces with your friends, family, coworkers, or church community.
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With Friends
  • Host a craft or quilting retreat weekend
  • Plan a book club getaway
  • Celebrate a milestone birthday
  • Enjoy a technology-free Sabbath retreat
  • Share a lakeside bonfire with storytelling and s’mores
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With Family
  • Gather for a family reunion
  • Celebrate an anniversary
  • Plan a multi-generational holiday weekend
  • Cook meals together & linger at a table
  • Introduce kids to hiking, canoeing, and campfires

With Church Groups
  • Confirmation or youth retreat
  • Women’s or men’s ministry weekend
  • Church council or leadership retreat
  • Prayer and worship retreat
  • Intergenerational faith formation gathering​
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With Work or Community Groups
  • Team-building retreat
  • Strategic planning offsite
  • Volunteer appreciation event
  • Creative brainstorming weekend
  • Wellness and rest-focused staff retreat

Creative & Purposeful Gatherings
  • Songwriting or music workshop
  • Writing retreat
  • Photography weekend in creation
  • Service-focused gathering
  • “Ordinary Time” personal renewal stay

Whether you come for planning, prayer, play, or simply presence, we would be honored to host your people with care and intention.

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A Place Prepared for You

4/1/2026

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When you bring your group to Water’s Edge Ministries, you’re not simply reserving a building. You’re stepping into a ministry of hospitality.

Sharing our spaces has never been about logistics or filling a calendar. It’s about welcoming your people with intention and care — and carrying the magic of camp beyond a single week or season.
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Whether you’re planning a quilting retreat, youth gathering, family reunion, church council retreat, staff planning day, or time away with friends, we are here to host you. Some groups arrive with a clearly defined faith-centered purpose. Others come seeking rest, connection, or deeper meaning. You don’t have to look a certain way to belong here.

What we promise is this: your group will be welcomed with faithfulness — rooted in our mission, shaped by our values, and grounded in a Christ-centered spirit of hospitality.

In a time when fewer people enter traditional faith spaces, we believe hospitality itself can be an invitation. When you gather here, space opens for the Holy Spirit to move — sometimes quietly, sometimes unexpectedly.

We trust that God meets people in community and creation: in shared meals and meaningful conversations, in singing and story, in prayer and play, in laughter and still moments by the lake. We prepare the ground with care so that your time here can be intentional and life-giving. God does the forming.



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We regularly host groups in the Chrysalis House and Medayto Lodge at Green Lake Bible Camp, and The Village and The Cottages at Shores of St. Andrew. During the late spring through early fall seasons, we also welcome groups to gather at Camp House, offering a more seasonal retreat experience. Each space offers its own rhythm, from cozy retreat-style lodging to lakeside community settings, all grounded in intentional hospitality.
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If you are looking for more than a venue and a place that will care for your people, we would be honored to host you. Reach out to our office — we’d love to hear about your plans and explore how we can offer holy hospitality to help make your gathering meaningful and complete.

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1411 Camp House Road
Brimson, MN 55602
​Phone: 218-848-2277

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9916 Lake Ave. S.
Spicer, MN 56288
Phone: 320-796-2181

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19080 16th St. NE
New London, MN 56273
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  • Who We Are
    • Water's Edge Ministries
    • Mission
    • Welcome Statement
    • Sites
    • Staff & Board of Directors
    • Alumni
    • Upcoming Events >
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    • Employment >
      • Open Positions
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      • Serve Boldly Staff
      • Associates
    • News & Reports >
      • Blog
  • Summer
    • Youth Camp >
      • Grades K-5
      • Grades 6-8
      • Grades 9-12
      • Resource Staff
    • Ordinary Time
    • Family Camp
    • Camp Joy
    • Day Camp
    • Worship at the Lake
    • Summer Staff
    • Promotional Resources
    • One More Around the Campfire
  • Serve Boldly
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    • Locations
    • Trip Details >
      • Summer Youth Trips
      • Alternative Breaks
    • Promotional Resources >
      • Trip Promotional Resources
      • Employment Promotional Resources
    • Employment >
      • Leader & Guide Info
      • Worship & Music Leader Info
      • Food Service Info
  • Retreats
    • Retreats
    • Corporate Events & Conferences
    • Programmed Retreats >
      • Adult Retreats
      • Youth Retreats
      • Family Retreats
    • Chapel Gatherings
  • Give
    • Donate >
      • Planned Giving
      • Sustainers
      • Thrivent
      • Wish List
    • At The Water's Edge Campaign
    • Events >
      • Dinner Theater
      • Give to the Max Day
      • Quilt Auction
    • Impact 100
    • Volunteer
    • WEM Awards >
      • Advocate of the Year Award
      • Volunteer of the Year Award
    • Share Your Story