To my family in Christ,

In worship on Zoom yesterday, you saw a video with Knute Ogren, the Development Director at Camp Calumet. (If want to see it, go to our website, www.htelc.com, to watch the worship. Knute begins at the 6’30” mark.) In it, he talked about Reach the Beach. In the past, 72 people ran in support of Calumet, along with hundreds of volunteers and participated in a Ragnar race here in New Hampshire. If you don’t know what that means, just know that a lot of people run a long time and raise a lot of money for Calumet. In fact, they raise northwards of $100,000 each year! Unfortunately, Reach the Beach has been cancelled this year due to COVID-19. Therefore, Calumet has tried to be creative to try and raise that money and so they are doing their own version of Reach the Beach.

There are 3 ways you can help. First and foremost, hold Calumet in your prayers. Calumet holds a special place in the hearts and faith development of so many people. Pray for the camp to remain in a place of financial security so their work will continue for generations to come. Second, be a runner! They are looking for 200 runners to run whatever distance they want at whatever time they want during the weekend of Sept. 18-19. They are asking for a $100 donation to participate. THE CHURCH WILL PAY THIS! Third, be a donor or sponsor of a runner. Each runner is asked to find 5 sponsors to make a donation of any amount to Calumet. If all you can do is $5, that is great as that counts as being a sponsor. No gift is to small and no gift is to large.

If you choose the second or third option (runner or sponsor), please email me at pastortim@htelc.com. I will then send out the information you need to sign up to run or to sponsor a runner. Currently, we have 5 runners (do the math in your head, but that means are looking for 25 sponsors) and 2 sponsors (again, due the math in your head, but that means we are looking for 23 more sponsors).

This should be a great time as there are some ideas brewing about how can we be a little creative with our runs so it has more of a community feel. Thanks for all the ways you have supported Calumet in the past and will continue to do in the future. It makes a difference.

Boom! Chicka! Boom! (If you didn’t know, this is a Calumet thing.)

Pastor Tim