Salkehatchie Summer Service is a youth-based home repair ministry founded by the Rev John Culp and the United Methodist Church in South Carolina over 30 years ago. Every year almost 3000 youth and adults attend 45+ one week camps located in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. They spend the week improving the living conditions of home owners who don't have the ability or resources to do basic repairs to their homes. In North Carolina, there are four camps that are featured on this website. They are located in Huntersville, Shelby, Durham and Pfeiffer University. Feel free to look around this website and see how God is working through the youth attending these camps. You will find pictures, videos and testimonials.

The North Carolina Salkehatchie Camps are Underway!

There will be three Salkehatchie camps in North Carolina this year. Huntersville UMC will be hosting its eighth Salkehatchie camp with approximately 60 campers. Carl and Tammy Duncan are the new camp directors as Shelby hosts its fourth camp. And in Durham, Larry Hawkey and his team have already held their second camp at McMannen UMC. It was a roaring success! Larry and his team should be very proud.

It's going to be another great year for Salkehatchie in North Carolina!

Salkehatchie - The Book

We are pleased to announce that "Send Me! The Story of Salkehatchie Summer Service," has been released. The book describes Salkehatchie, reviews its history, tells stories of families, volunteers, and communities, and offers a message of hope. It is a book of many voices, including reflections in the forms of poems, songs, and essays. And of course it will have pictures.

Salkehatchie has been an important part of the South Carolina United Methodist Conference for almost thirty years. We hope to share the message across our state and beyond.

The authors, Arlene Andrews, John Culp, and the late Art Dexter, have given the rights to the book to Salkehatchie Summer Service. Any income from sales of the book over the cost of its production and handling will be used for our service work. You can download the order form for the book by clicking here. You can also listen to an interview of one of the book's authors, Arlene Andrews, at Salkehatchie Radio.

How Did Salkehatchie Come to North Carolina?

Salkehatchie Summer Service has been a ministry of the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church for the past 28 years. It started as a single camp in 1977 and has grown to 40 weekly camps each working on anywhere from 4 – 20 homes. Over the last 27 years several thousand homeowners have experienced first hand God’s spirit working through Salkehatchie youth.

In 2000 a small group of eight youth and two adults from Huntersville United Methodist Church attended a Salkehatchie camp in Camden, South Carolina. HUMC has continued to support Salkehatchie in South Carolina.

The continued support and enthusiasm for the Salkehatchie program combined with a belief that our local community has similar needs to those in South Carolina led to an agreement to start a Salkehatchie Camp in Huntersville, North Carolina in July 2003. The agreement to move forward is supported by the South Carolina and Western North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church.

Thank you for your interest in Huntersville Camp. If you have any questions regarding the Huntersville Camp or would like to know how you can support the camp please send an email to the Huntersville Camp Director. United Methodist Church congregations in the Western North Carolina Conference can make a donation to the Salkehatchie Summer Service Huntersville Camp through the Advance Special provision.