Give to Hume
Lives changed. Eternally.
Every dollar given to Hume helps plant seeds of the gospel in the hearts of students, families, and beyond.
Evening worship at Ponderosa · Summer 2025
Giving areas
The Hume Fund
Where it’s needed most — staff, upkeep, and the gospel preached every week of the year.
Give Where Needed
Camperships
Sends a child who could not otherwise come. Hume gave more than $1M in 2025.
Fund a Camper
Current priorityThe ARK
Phase one of Ripple of Hope — more room for young people to meet Christ, year-round.
Build with Us
Legacy Giving
A gift through your will or estate. The week that changed you, given to someone else.
Plan Your Legacy
The Endowment
Gifts held and invested so Hume’s ministry outlives all of us.
Invest in the Future
JWI Scholarship
Named scholarship support, sending students who apply through the fund each summer.
Support a Scholar
Ponderosa Chapel
Expanding the room where high schoolers hear the gospel, night after night.
Expand the Chapel
Staff Housing
Homes for the people who run camp — summer staff and the families who stay year-round.
House the Team
Dining Hall
The table everyone comes back to. Renovating where camp eats together three times a day.
Set the TableLasting Change
The gospel at work in young lives
Spiritual transformation
Week after week, students encounter the living God at Hume. Many hear the gospel for the first time. Many more respond for the last time — making commitments that hold for a lifetime.
Community & belonging
Campers arrive as strangers and leave as community. Through shared cabin life, worship, and adventure, students find belonging rooted in grace.
Going home changed
The fruit of a week at Hume doesn’t stay at camp. Students and church leaders return home as salt and light — influencing their schools, families, and churches for decades.
In their own words
I’m only here because someone else paid for that.
Camper · Hume Camperships film · Summer 2025Watch the moment ↗
The campaign
Ripple of Hope
Hume named its campaign after its own mark — a stone dropped in water, reaching outward from one place until it reaches everyone it can. Ripple of Hope renews the places where that happens.
Hume has raised at this scale before: in 2021 the ministry completed a $48.2 million capital campaign. °
See the campaignThe first project
The ARK $12 million goal°
Built in 1976, the ARK has been the cornerstone of Hume Lake life for fifty years — broom hockey in winter, basketball all summer, and the room where thousands first heard the gospel. It is ready for a revival, and it goes first.
Rendering — for illustrative purposes only, subject to variation or change.
Give to the ARK →Camperships
Paid for by someone they never met
$1,023,453
given in camperships in 2025 °
A campership covers up to $465 of a camper’s week at Hume Lake — the family covers the rest.°
One youth group brought 95 students. Eight made first-time commitments, 31 recommitted, 27 asked about baptism, and 29 asked to be discipled.
Hume Magazine, Fall 2023, p.11
Hume at a glance
54,966
Guests served in 2025
2,100
Prayer partners
80 years
Of ministry at Hume
ECFA member since March 2011 · Audited annually by CapinCrouse LLP · 501(c)(3). Hume has complete discretion and control over the use of donated funds.
Sources: 2025 Case for Support · ECFA member profile
Legacy giving
The week that changed you, given forward
Some gifts are written into wills instead of checkbooks. A gift through your estate or trust carries the ministry that shaped your life to campers you will never meet — the quietest gift Hume receives, and the longest-lasting.
Plan your legacyPlanned-giving consultation partner to be announced.
Eighty years in, the water is still moving.
Every gift drops another stone. Your gift today sends a camper to the mountains — and what starts there doesn’t stay there.
Give now