by Pine Cove
Everything in One Place You can find all your pre-camp information in one handy-dandy place right here! Updates for All Youth Camps – Summer 2024 We are encouraging everyone only send the amount of prescription medication needed for their session. So if your camper needs a daily prescription med and is there for a week, […]
Tags: camp prep
Texas weather is notoriously unpredictable. So much so that you can experience a snow flurry and a heat wave within a week—or maybe even a day! With the countdown to camp ticking down (double-digits, friends!) and a day or two of temps around 67 Degrees Ferret-Heit (another seriously fun name!), we decided it was time […]
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no […]
“If this isn’t some sort of nudge from the Lord to do this, or at least give this a lot more thought and prayer about it, I don’t know what is,” Carter ‘Nashthrill’ Myers recalls of applying to work at Pine Cove. “I still don’t really know why I did that.” We’re praying for a […]
Tags: chimney point, southeast
We’ve rounded up some of our full-time staffers’ footwear favorites from hardworking boots to comfy, casual crocs. There were a few repeats (looking at you Madewell and New Balance) but we were pleasantly surprised to see the variety in their responses. And if this were a competition (because who doesn’t like a little comp-comp-petition) the […]
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
Their alarm clocks often buzz at 4 am, there’s more dirt under their fingernails than you’d find in a sandbox, and their jeans may or may not be stuck on because of the 100-degree heat, but you’ll rarely find one without a big smile on their face. They’re the Pine Cove wranglers, and they really […]
Tags: horses, life transformation, recruiting, staff roles, stories, summer, summer staff, wrangler
Drift. That’s a fun word when you’re applying it to camp! Drift on a wakeboard behind a boat on the lake. Drift down a hill on a drift trike. Drift on a giant swan float in the pool. When it comes to relationships, however, we absolutely do not want to drift. It’s pretty easy for […]
Tags: dads, family, marriage, moms
Inside the Cove | Summer Staff
One thing we hope you’ll never tire of hearing is that here at Pine Cove, “our staff is our program!” Our relational recruiting model has changed not only the way we look for and hire those staffers, but also how we interact with them the other forty weeks of the year. One of those ways […]
by Anna Birch
Camaraderie. As we stand shoulder to shoulder with dozens of other staff, dressed in the same opening day shirt and khaki shorts, ready and willing to spend and be spent for the souls of campers, we realize we’ve found what it looks like to have true camaraderie. Where does this type of community come from? For […]
Lorissa “PG” Dollar has worked at various Pine Cove camps, which should equip her well as she embarks on the journey of opening Pine Cove’s newest camp location: the Springs. Lorissa is a barrel of laughs and laughed through almost every answer in this interview. We know you’ll love getting to know and laughing with […]
Tags: full time staff, springs, Staff Profiles