Many thanks to all of our volunteers! You're the best!!
- Some of our summer volunteers - 2024
- Some of our spring volunteers - 2024
- 2024 January & February Volunteers - Guest hosts, Mailings, and Installing Fiber Optics
- SOOP volunteers - April & August 2023
- Some of our summer volunteers - 2023
- This spring we needed to remove invasive species and non-prairie species out of several of our prairies that are in a CRP (Conservation Reserve Program). We had volunteers from Mennonite Church of Normal, First Mennonite Church of Morton, Metamora Mennonite Church, and New Life Community Church of the Nazarene spend muliple days helping us take out bush honeysuckle, autumn olive, and walnut trees. Some friends even sent up an excavator to help address larger groupings as well as clear along the lake. We could not have done it without their help!! - June 2022
- Installed overhead speakers in the Dining Hall, spread mulch and set up Nine Square; installed the pool filters and did the first backwash; and set up soccer goals in the Ballfield. - Lombard Mennonite Youth Group - May 2023
- Outside mini-split units were unattached from Oak Lodge and placed on the ground to minimize vibration/loudness from the machines into the hotel rooms. - May 2022
- Cleared forest areas and set up shelter for wood splitting and split wood - The People Church Men's Group - Spring 2023
- Pool preparation - Spring 2023
- The summer brochure was processed to mail to you! - Association Business Meeting volunteers and area friends - January & February 2023
- Split & stacked wood - Morton United Methodist Church Men's Retreat - November 2022
- Retrofitted fluorescent light ballasts to fit LED lights in the Campground Pavilion and at the Shop as well as moving picnic tables and boats to the Campground Pavilion for the winter. - Lombard Mennonite Youth Group - November 2022
- Pressure washed the Lakeside stairs. pressure washed and sealed the picnic tables, cleared brush between the lake and the lodge, cut/split/moved firewood, straighted the Menno Haven sign, cleared brush at the tubing hill and along trails - Fairview Mennonite Church, Kalona, IA - August 2022
- Summer 2022 Volunteers
- Mulched the entire low ropes course, split and stacked wood, helped with dishes and food prep, cleared honeysuckle along trails and the snow tubing hill, cut down autumn olive in the hayfield, mulched at Green Cathedral and brought in new logs for benches - Bethel Mennonite Church Youth Group from Sarasota, FL - June 2022
- Spring 2022 Volunteers
- Prairie restoration work and wood splitting by Lombard Mennonite Church Youth & Sponsors - November 2021
- Fall 2021 Volunteers
- Installing the new metal roofing - August 2021
- Some of our summer volunteers - 2021
- Taking off the Lakeview Lodge shingles - June 2021
- Results from the Derecho (the big wind storm in August) and cleaning up after it - August - October 2020
- Arthur Mennonite Youth Group - spread mulch on the Adventure Education Course - July 2020
- Angels Without Wings Youth Group: Rerouting Trail 6 between Cattail and the Oak campfire sites and spreading mulch - June 2020
- Repairing the bridge from Green Cathedral to Chapel in the Woods campfire sites - May 2020
- Painting the Lakeview Lodge Stairwell - Hopedale Mennonite Church - February 2020
- Poolhouse Restroom Remodel - Lombard Mennonite Church & Hopedale Mennonite Church - May 2019
- Staining & Sealing the Ark Playground - Arthur Mennonite Church - May 2019
- Graveling Drives & Parking Lots - April 2019
- Lombard Mennonite Church Youth Group: April 2019
- Iowa Mennonite School - Click Here to see photos from the Study and Learning Term (SALT) - March 2019
- Deer Run Re-Roof in preparation for solar panel installation - March 2019
- Men's Retreat - First Mennonite Church of Morton, Morton United Methodist Church and Arthur Mennonite Church - Fall 2018
- New Light Fixtures for the Dining Hall - July - October 2018
- Lombard Mennonite Youth Group - October 2018
- Painting the Pool Bathhouse - A Small Group from Lombard Mennonite Church - Sept & Oct 2018
- Re-roofing the Pavilion in the Campground - Friends from First Mennonite Church of Champaign-Urbana & Hopedale Mennonite Church
- West Union Mennonite Church, Parnell, IA - July 2018
- John A Yoder Reunion - June 2018
- Kitchenette Re-roof - April 2018
- Men's Retreat - First Mennonite Church of Morton, Morton United Methodist Church, Carlock Mennonite Church, and Arthur Mennonite Church - Fall 2017
- Mennonite Church of Normal Junior High Youth - Fall 2017
- Lombard Mennonite Church Youth Group - Fall 2017
