John Vandervelde - Program Director   

Over the past few years we've had a deep desire to offer more creative and artistic activities for students and campers here at HoneyRock.  We not only want to enhance our craft shop where people can make the traditional camp crafts, but we want young people to have more opportunities to tap into their creative abilities.  We want young people to learn more about creation and our creative God through their experiences at HoneyRock.

Through the generous gifts of two donors we are able to take significant steps towards making this desire a reality this summer.  Here are some new things that will be happening:

1)  We will be offering Ceramics as an activity area this summer for campers!  We are transforming the current craft shop into a fully-functional ceramics studio. 

2)  We are enhancing our crafts area and moving it to newly renovated space attached to the trip locker.  This new craft shop is going to be sweet!

3)  We will be offering a ceramics class and wood fire kiln building class this summer for college students.  This course will be taught by David Hooker from the Wheaton College Art Department.

4)  We are offering a course for college students titled "Shakespearience" which is a drama and literature class that will be taught by two Wheaton College professors.

5)  We are offering an Interdisciplinary Studies course called "Creative Enhancement" which is an art workshop incorporating Movement, Image, Sound, Body, Nature and God.  The workshop is for college students and will be led by a Photography professor, an Art Professor, and a Theater Professor from Wheaton College.  We are hoping that this course will become the core of a Creativity Program here at HoneyRock.

Exciting things are happening in the area of creativity here at HoneyRock!  It will be wonderful to see young people grow and learn in new and creative ways this summer.