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Salkehatchie Summer Service
in North Carolina
The Shelby Camp is Completed
Check out what happened at the Shelby Camp.
It was the second Salkehatchie camp held in Shelby. Another great job by Tresca Hollis and her team!.
The Huntersville Camp is Completed!
The Huntersville Camp is over. This was our sixth year and our first in the new building. To check out the action you can head on over to the 2008 Huntersville Camp page.
Salkehatchie Huntersville Has a New Home!
It's been ten years in the planning but it's finally here. Huntersville United Methodist Church has moved into a new facility located at 14005 Stumptown Road in Huntersville NC.
New Home for Salkehatchie Huntersville
It's a beautiful new building that gives the church 38,000 square feet to serve the congregation and the community. The first worship service was held on April 20th. We look forward to hosting our first Salkehatchie Camp there! We'll be able to house everybody under the same roof and have minimal impact on the everyday operation of the church. Best of all will be the multiple restroom facilities and the showers!
For more photos go to the Photo Gallery for the 2008 Huntersville Camp and select "The New HUMC" as the venue.
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.