Besides offering quality summer camp and year-round retreats, Ingham Okoboji is committed to encouraging campers of all ages to continue growing in faith BEYOND their time at our youth and family programming. As a part of IOLBC Beyond Ministries, this site is designed to offer engaging content and ministry resources for all.

The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. I John 2:17 While I may avoid the doctor more than I should, going to the eye doctor for an annual checkup is something I rarely miss. Why? Because there is a strong history of not just bad eyesight but eye disease in my family. I even got to add to the list several years ago when I was diagnosed with thin cornea which had, because it was so thin, become misshapen causing issues with my visio

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” ~Ezekial 36:26 Imagine being completely ostracized from society. No contact with friends or family. Not being allowed to worship with fellow believers. Not even allowed to touch another person. Not because you had done some horrible evil thing and were being kept in solitary confinement in some long forgotten prison but simply because you were p

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. ~ John 1:12 One of the greatest joys I’ve experienced has been seeing a handful of my friends become parents through adoption. Each story is unique. One couple adopted the last child allowed to leave Russia with an American family. One person adopted as a single mom. Another friend and her husband have specifically adopted a son with Down’s Syndrome. While most hav

“Restore us, oh God Make you face shine on us, That we may be saved.” ~ Psalm 80:3 The cry for restoration is not a new cry. Humanity has been crying out for restoration since Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden. Since the moment they ate the forbidden fruit, humanity’s relationship with God has been broken, strained, not what it was designed to be. Take a moment and just imagine what it would be like, as the sun starts to set, strolling along a stream or lake

I have a fascination with old, abandoned buildings and places. Just over a decade ago, the church I attended took the youth on a mission trip to Clearbrook, MN where my fascination began. It’s a small town in the very northern part of the state. We were headed up there specifically to help with the Gonvick location of the Clear Waters Life Center (CWLC). Gonvick and Clearbrook are neighboring small towns who, for years, have a single school district between them. In the early