Rocky Mountain Conference United Methodist Camping and Retreat Ministries
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Beaver Creek Web Site
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Buckhorn Web Site
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Grand Mesa Web Site
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John Wesley Ranch Web Site
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Pinecliff Web Site

HEY! - Let's go to Camp!

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Looking for a unique and beautiful site to attend a summer camp or have a retreat? The Rocky Mountain Conference Camping Ministry has five different and diverse sites. We offer over 40 individual programs each year for adults and youth. In addition many of our sites are available on a rental basis to Churches and Organizations. Click on the individual sites to the left to find more information about the site of your choice.


7 Foundations of United Methodist
 Camp and Retreat Ministries 
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  1. Provide intentional places apart to encounter God
    • Give opportunities for guests and participants to quench their thirst for God
    • Stimulate sacred sabbath time
    • Introduce silence and stillness as avenues for communing with God
    • Engage persons in Jesus’ practice of prayer and solitude
  2. Extend genuine Christian hospitality and community
    • Welcome the stranger – extend holy hospitality
    • Covenant to love one another and to share the fruit of the spirit
    • Live out biblical principles of Christian community
    • Offer opportunities to contribute to the common good
  3. Nurture Christian faith and discipleship
    • Provide environments and experiences of genuine grace
    • Encourage a growing trust in God and decisions of Christian faith
    • Inspire people to open themselves to the spirit’s transformation of mind and relationships
  4. Develop Christian Spiritual Leaders
    • Teach, model and involve persons in servant leadership
    • Heighten the ability to perceive and to respond to teachable Moments
    • Provide persons with opportunities to grow in leadership by actually leading
  5. Teach creation care and appreciation
    • Encourage people to listen in new ways, because the creation speaks of God
    • Provide people the opportunity to learn more about the natural world for it is a source of wisdom
    • Expand the meaning of beloved community
    • Introduce and implement practices of earth care that honor God’s covenants with creation
  6. Collaborate with United Methodist churches & agencies
    • Help congregations fulfill their primary task
    • Support annual conference leaders in their primary task of preparing persons for specialized leadership roles
    • Become informed and collaborate with the exciting outreach work being done United Methodist churches and agencies
  7. Inspire and equip all guests to do love and justice
    • Make the connection between the “Mountaintop” experience and the “Road to the Cross”
    • Embrace the “Already/Not Yet” nature of God’s reign
    • Covenant and engage persons in to doing love and justice
    • Support guests beyond our own faith tradition doing good and preventing harm

News  & Needs

Beaver Creek:

Buckhorn: WE need volunteers who are experienced with using chainsaws. We have a lot of dead trees to cut down in a short time. Any help will be appreciated!

Grand Mesa:  

John Wesley:

Pinecliff:

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