Notice of Annual Meeting Saturday May 10

Notice is hereby given that the 2025 Annual General Meeting of Silver Lake Mennonite Camp Inc. will be held online on Saturday May 10th at 11:30am. Click on the Agenda and other links below for meeting information.

Click here to join the meeting by Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85338476047 (Meeting ID: 853 3847 6047) Please be sure that your Zoom app is updated!

2025 Annual Meeting Agenda and 2024 Minutes

2023 Financial Statements – Final

2024 Financial Statements – coming soon

Nominations to the Board

Find our current members of the SLMC Board of Directors here.

Remembering Jennie and Zoe Wiebe

Even as SLMC has been preparing joyfully for camp registration to open this weekend, many in our community have been grieving the passing of two wonderful people who shared their love and support with Silver Lake in various ways. Jennie and her daughter Zoe Wiebe died tragically on January 27. Zoe had been an SLMC camper and retreat lover, including our last Fall Work Weekend. Her surviving siblings, Nat and Josh, are two members of our tight-knit staff community. We have especially been holding these friends of ours in our thoughts this week.

One of Jennie’s lasting imprints on SLMC will be the beautiful photos she took all over camp in Summer 2019. A significant number of the iconic photos that you see on our website were captured by Jennie’s professional eye. Enjoy the gallery below of just a few of her most stunning shots.

In the coming days, Jennie and Zoe’s communities will be gathering to honour their lives and our love for them.  Find their obituaries, visitation, and funeral details at Erb & Good Funeral Home.

In times like these, we can only draw close to each other and hold each other’s questions and tears with love and care.

May the campfire’s warmth enfold you and the rustling trees remind you of all that is good and hopeful and still at work in the world. Peace from SLMC.

Photos by Jennie Wiebe

Act Small, Love Big

2025 Summer Camp theme announcement! Every year at camp, we choose a theme that will inspire our thoughts, conversations, and time together. The theme comes up in Morning Watch, Campfire Devos, Quest, and in various other ways. It is one of our guides for exploring spirituality at camp – that is – the ways we seek to connect with something way beyond ourselves and also deep within. The theme for summer 2025 with SLMC is:

Act Small, Love Big:
Transforming the World through Seeds of Change!

Inspired by the transformative power of choosing small when one could choose big, this summer at Silver Lake we are exploring what it can look like to serve one another in small, steadfast, and committed ways to bring a new, love-filled world into being.

We will consider how slowing down and living small is not about becoming passive but rather an act of resistance against a world that always asks for more, even when it is destructive. By leaning into Silver Lake’s rich history of intentional community living, creation care, and counter-cultural peacemaking, we will consider how to reimagine our history as a call to work for a radically different world than the one we see around us. We will consider what the land can teach us about small living and how small living can be a way to steward the land.

We will emphasize that none of us can do it alone, for true change can only happen when each member of our community allows themselves to be drawn into relationships of mutual care and accountability. We will also consider how our community can seek to embody small living in the context of the global community and humbly enter into relationships of mutuality with neighbours far and near.

By learning to care for one another and all creation in small ways, we will plant the seeds of a new world full of love, care, and compassion.

Many thanks to SLMC staff member Thomas Beech for developing this year’s theme once again!

Join the Circle! Become a Campfire Builder Monthly Donor

Campfire Builders

Campaign Details

• Your monthly donation to the general fund will offer a steady and predictable source of income for camp.
• Have your name acknowledged in the list below to encourage others to join! (option to remain anonymous)
• All Campfire Builders will receive a special thank you SLMC magnet!
• Click on the button below to set up your easy and automated monthly gift to SLMC.

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Monthly Donor List

Join the Circle and we will add your name to this monthly donor community! Can you help us grow this list?

↓ Keep scrolling to view the photo gallery.

1. Mark Weber & Sheri Wideman
2. Dylan Siebert
3. Anonymous
4. Wendy Janzen & Chip Bender
5. Beth Wasylyk
6. Nathan Kruger
7. Paul Boers
8. Jo-Anne Harder
9. Dan Pauls & Treena Pauls
10. Nancy & Ernie Regehr
11. Ingrid & Henry Heinrichs Pauls
12. Akio Saito
13. John & Ruth Dyck
14. David Bergen & Deborah Kehler
15. Mark & Rachel Diller Harder
16. Paul Fieguth & Betty Pries
17. Tara & Todd O’Donnell
18. Peter & Ella Pauls
19. Tim & Tammy Isaak
20. Rachel Harder & Matt Snider

21. Christine & Don Weber
22. Linda Weber & Chris Javornik
23. Tim Hedrick & Janice Maust Hedrick
24. John Brubacher & Rhonda Wideman
25. Kate (a.k.a. Kathy) Neudorf
28. Jillian Burkhardt & Chris Steingart
29. Anonymous
30. Linda Janzen
31. Wendy Martin
32. Kristina Nickel

Photo Gallery - The Beloved Campfire Circle Through the Years

Click on the first photo to start slideshow!

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Join the SLMC year-round team

Come work with excellent people! Silver Lake Mennonite Camp is seeking a Fundraising & Communications Manager to share their passion for SLMC with supporters of all kinds, inviting new and existing community to participate in the work we do together. This is a permanent, half-time position which can be done remotely with access to the Kitchener office and trips as needed to camp. SLMC has a big community full of people who participate in so many generous ways. If you would like to share your skills and experience in fundraising & communications to inspire and engage many caring, giving folks, read the job description here and apply today.

Notice of Annual Meeting Saturday May 11 Bylaw Changes

Notice is hereby given that the 2024 Annual General Meeting of Silver Lake Mennonite Camp Inc. will be held online on Saturday May 11th at 11:30am.  Click on the “2024 AGM Agenda” for meeting information and Zoom link.

Click here for Zoom link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/984425352  (Meeting ID: 984 425 352  Phone: 1 647 374 4685)

Click on the links below for meeting information.

Annual Meeting Agenda and Minutes

SLMC 2023 Review of Engagement Report Draft

2022 SLMC – Final

2023 Financial Statement A

2023 Financial Statement B

Nominations to the Board

Bylaws

Articles of Amendment

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Summer 2023 Schedule & Camp Info!

Click here to find all the information you need to plan a great Silver Lake experience!

Register for Winter & Spring Retreats!

Registration for 2023 Winter & Spring Retreats is now open! Click here for more information and to register…

The Grand Paddle & Hike May 6-8, 2022

** Fundraiser extended and open until Sunday, May 15 **

Click here to donate or participate in this important annual fundraiser! 10% of proceeds going to support Ukraine.

SLMC Through the Years – A Digital Tour

Click here to take a trip down memory lane at Silver Lake! View the historic timeline, photos and much more! Another 60th Anniversary Project to remember as Silver Lake heads into its 61st year.