Watch or listen as DC Randle, retired educator and former expedition director, presents on the topic of “Exploring Tropical Ecology in the Peruvian Rainforest.” After earning his degree in science education at Wartburg College, DC began his career teaching behaviorally challenged students at Saint Francis High School in Minnesota. He learned about the Jason Project…
Recording of Dr. Jeffrey Boeke’s October 2023 presentation on “Theory, Practice, and Benefits of Experience-Based Leadership Education.” Boeke, an Ewalu summer staff alumnus, is a faculty member at Luther College in Decorah and is globally recognized for his contributions in advancing the fields of adventure recreation, leadership studies, experiential education, and challenge course and zip…
STRAWBERRY POINT, IA – Ewalu Camp & Retreat Center is participating in the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque’s Great Give Day on Wednesday, May 17, to raise funds for its Cedar Lodge renovation project. Great Give Day is a 24-hour, online giving day established by the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque to celebrate and support…
STRAWBERRY POINT, IA – Ewalu Camp & Retreat Center, a Lutheran ministry serving Eastern Iowa since 1961, announces a $2 million capital campaign to renovate Cedar Lodge, a 60-year-old building at the main camp site that serves as the hub of activity for campers, summer staff and visitors, and to strengthen the organization’s ministry. “For…
For 47 years, Camp Ewalu’s A-Frame Bridge has spanned the Maquoketa River. It has become perhaps the most recognizable image of the camp, and it is certainly the most photographed. Our Final Mile Campaign this summer aims to replace our A-Frame with a new, updated design in a better location to shuttle the next many generations…
STRAWBERRY POINT, IA – Ewalu Camp & Retreat Center is participating in the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque’s Great Give Day on Wednesday, May 18, to raise funds for its A-Frame Bridge Rebuilding Project. Great Give Day is a 24-hour, online giving day established by the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque to celebrate and support…
December 2, 2021 STRAWBERRY POINT, IA — Ewalu Camp & Retreat Center has selected the Rev. Frank Johnson as the organization’s new executive director. Johnson will take over leadership on Dec. 20 of the Lutheran-affiliated ministry, which is transitioning from the retirement of the Rev. Clark Baldwin, who has led the camp and retreat center…
After nine years guiding Camp Ewalu through growth and into a strong financial position, Executive Director the Rev. Clark Baldwin has announced that he will retire in March 2022 to spend more time with family, including grandchildren in Minnesota and Oregon. “For quite a while, I have been looking forward to getting to spend…
We left for Camp Ewalu every year on a hot, humid, or even rainy Sunday. By the time we got halfway to camp we were nearly through the Ewalu songbook. As we neared the roundabout a few miles west of camp anticipating the exciting week to come, we became anxious in the back seat and…
It was just what I needed: that bounce, bounce, bounce as I crossed the bridge to the Trailblazer village. It had been a few years since I had last crossed that bridge. That bridge that has washed away in floods countless times, that bridge which runs along the tractor path. As a Trailblazer, it felt…