Silver Lake requires all guests to our site and participants at our in-person events to be fully vaccinated (2+ weeks from final dose) against Covid-19. Those who are not able to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or due to age may show proof of a negative PCR test taken not more than 3 days before the event.
Silver Lake provides several opportunities for individuals and groups to participate in specialized programs of Christian Education and Spiritual Renewal each year. We invite young people from throughout New England to meet others and to learn from these programs as they develop their faith and build relationships. Each special weekend program is designed around a specific theme and age group.
Action Weekends
Held in April or May (Spring Action), and October or November (Fall Action), these work retreats are designed to provide an opportunity for young people in 9th grade and above to work together as Silver Lake is readied for the summer and winter months respectively. Many hands make light work! Action weekends also provide a great opportunity to meet new friends, re-unite with old friends, and work hard. They are recommended for all young people who are contemplating being on the summer staff. Actions are also a great time for former staff and alumni conferees to come back to Silver Lake and help out.
Everyone is asked to register online. For high schoolers, cost is $45 and a complete health record is required. There is no cost to adult volunteers, though donations are accepted.
In the beginning of December, we will offer Christmas at the Lake as a weekend conference. The weekend provides a program for 4th-6th graders and a program for 7th & 8th grades, each with their own deans and counselors. The retreat weekend offers a wonderful opportunity for young people to re-unite with friends made during the summer conference program or to experience the magic of Silver Lake for the first time. Registration is available online; the cost is $125 per person; a complete health record is required.
We also have an intergenerational Christmas at the Lake Family Day the first Saturday of December. Bring your family to camp for a day of fellowship by the fireside, games, crafts, hot cocoa, chili, and some Adventure games. Spend time outdoors with other families as we enter the season of Advent and prepare for Christmas.
Held during the maple sugaring season (early to mid-March) each year, this weekend is designed to provide 6th, 7th, and 8th graders with the opportunity to learn about tapping maple trees, boiling sap to make maple syrup, and to discover new ways to appreciate our environment and to care for all of God's Creation, in nature's resurrection: Spring!
We also have an intergenerational Maple Sugaring Family Day. From tap to table, experience nature’s renewal and its sweet gifts at Silver Lake! We will tap the camp’s sugar maple trees, collect the sap, and boil it over a big outdoor stove as we participate in the transformation of sap into syrup. See firsthand God’s gift of Resurrection in the coming Spring.
This weekend retreat is a safe space for members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies to explore issues of identity and faith through a lens of progressive Christian values. All are welcome, regardless of faith identity or belief.
9th-12th graders will join a community of your peers for fun, laughter, connection, music, community, campfires, history, low ropes, arts and crafts, fashion shows, and discussion.
Weekend lodging is determined by age, not by gender.
The Southern New England Conference of the UCC provides Confirmation Retreats at Silver Lake annually. If your church's Confirmation Class is too small on its own of if your class could benefit from a retreat experience with other classes, these retreats were designed for you. The purpose of these retreats is not to teach confirmation all in one weekend but to help build community and to help begin the process of asking the questions that are key to the Confirmation process. The curriculum resources used are appropriate for young people in 7th - 9th grade.
Program includes Team Building games and campfire on Saturday.
The Conference provides the resources and the leadership for each retreat and each group is required to bring adult advisors to facilitate the program: One (1) adult for every eight (8) youth participants.
Each retreat begins on Friday at 7:30 pm and ends at 11:30 am on Sunday. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided on Saturday, and Brunch is served on Sunday.
While specific retreat dates are announced annually, they are generally held in the following months: February, March, April, and November.
Details and registration can be found on the SNE Faith Formation webpage - www.sneucc.org/disciples
Please note, while Silver Lake hosts the Confirmation Retreats, all registration, payments, schedule, and additional details are collected and organized by the Southern New England Conference.
Music. Art. Dance. Drama. We’ll explore it all while making new friends, learning about God, and having fun outdoors at camp. Explore your passion — what are you M.A.D.D about? Bring your voice, your instrument, your sense of adventure and wonder and see what we can create together.
Dean: Shawn Garan
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Love God, love your neighbor, love yourself, love creation – it’s the Silver Lake way! Explore the Silver Lake loves through familiar animated characters and beloved stories, while learning more about yourself and making friends
Dean: Miranda Moeller
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Come explore your talents, experiences, and relationships that make you who you are. At Compass we will navigate the challenges that young people face and learn how to guide ourselves and the people around us to a bright future. Dive into the music, nature, and culture of Silver Lake to discover your direction.
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Fade up on another beautiful day at Silver Lake! Each day we will write, produce, direct, and film our own videos. We’ll explore social issues while learning technical aspects about telling stories on video. Learn more about God, your neighbor, and yourself through the lens of a camera. Come join the fun!
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Everything is awesome when you are part of a team! During a fun-filled week, we will build connections with God, creation, and each other as we play games, participate in the Challenge Course, swim, do arts & crafts, enjoy God’s creation, and of course, have fun with Legos.
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Do you love to sing, act, write, dance, create art, or play an instrument? Join us as we form a community of creative spirits, discovering each other’s talents. We’ll go for nature walks, write and perform, form a band or two (bring your instrument!), gaze at the stars, learn a dance, play games … and on the way we’ll create an amazing worship service!
Dean: Ally Massi
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
When Jesus is your head coach, welcoming the stranger and loving your neighbor are more important than defeating your opponent. In this high energy week of playing, passing, and scoring, we’ll exercise our bodies, minds, and spirits (yoga & dancing, too!). We’ll share some laughs, share God’s love, and make lifelong friends! Join our team!
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
The sounds, the songs, the smell of the campfire & cookies — explore your love of music at camp! Bring your voices, creativity, ideas, instruments and spend a week unplugged learning about community, faith, and building a musical experience in God’s Backyard. Join the band!
$750 / $675 / $600
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Come join us for a week filled with drumming, music, and celebrating YOU! From simple rhythms to complex arrangements, from bodhráns to janggus, water bottles to sticks, we’ll make some noise. Together we will explore God’s gift of music and all the other gifts that make you special. Come find your groove with us!
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Kickball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, rugby, lacrosse. If it’s a team sport, we’ll try it out! Join us for a high energy week of running, jumping, playing, and teamwork. We’ll also make time for art, music, swimming, and ropes course adventures. Learn how your unique, God-given gifts make you an outstanding teammate!
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Adventure! Archaeology! Playing in dirt and mud! Together, we’ll explore our ancient faith with the modern tools of science while having fun together. We’ll play games, expand our faith horizons, and learn what people’s “stuff” can tell us about how they lived. Come dig up artifacts, learn about ancient life, and connect history to your daily life.
Deans: Miranda Moeller & Shane Montoya
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Get ready for an extremely active week at Silver Lake! Each day will bring a new challenge: hiking, biking, climbing, canoeing. We will go off-site most days for our adventures. Our hearts will grow stronger as we exercise, bond with our fellow adventurers, and connect with God.
Conferees should be fit enough to enjoy challenges such as a hike to a local summit, six miles total for the day. Bike rental included.
Special scholarship opportunity for Hiking the Way & Mach 2 campers Reeno Foundation Youth Explorers ScholarshipVaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
If you love science, technology, engineering, art, or math, then this conference is for you! We’ll build boats like Noah, do experiments with water, and play with important numbers from the Bible. Nature hikes, campfires, and swimming will inspire us to make our own works of art. Come stretch your creativity as we enjoy the wonder of God’s creation.
Deans: Sara & Dan Krhla
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Does it feel like there’s so much more going on inside you than what can be seen from the outside? Join us for a week of camp fun as we explore what it means to be accepted as our full selves. We’ll build God’s beloved community through games, gardening, swimming, climbing, singing, and supporting each other. Y’all are welcome here!
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Let all the earth sing praise … and dance, and paint, and make music. We’ll explore our different ways of prayer and worship as we join forces to create an original Biblical musical and share it with the Silver Lake community. Come exercise your gifts and talents and perhaps discover some new ones.
Deans: Leanna Bonafini & Val Tutson
$750 / $675 / $600
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Join us for a truly Herculean week full of sports and competition! In the spirit of the Ancient Greeks, we invite all to join our own version of the Summer Olympics. Get ready to challenge yourself, focusing on mind, body, and spirit. Along the way we will learn about teamwork and how this all ties into being better Christians and citizens of the world.
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Mountain top highs and valley lows are both a part of the human experience, and God walks with us all along the way. We will be hiking and exploring God’s magnificent creation and reflecting on the ways that God is with us in our daily lives.
This will be a physically demanding conference; bring an appetite for adventure and an open heart. New hikes are planned!
Deans: Diann Bailey & Nada Sellers
$750 / $675 / $600
Special scholarship opportunity for Hiking the Way & Mach 2 campers Reeno Foundation Youth Explorers Scholarship Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Silver Lake's Got Talent - And so do each of us!
Discover yours in a supportive audience of new friends. Bring your talent or discover a new one, from gymnastics to video making, poetry to riddles, crossword puzzles to high ropes challenges, for a week full of new friends, new challenges, and celebrating our gifts from God.
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
God’s people come in many colors, but the world doesn’t treat all of them equally. Together we can take steps to make our world more fair and just. We’ll also step up to the challenge on high ropes, create art, enjoy the outdoors, and take your life up a notch. YOU have what it takes to reach the next step.
This is an intentionally diverse racial justice conference.
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Families of every size and description are welcome to gather and enjoy all that Silver Lake has to offer. We’ll worship together, be challenged by the ropes courses, cool off in the lake, and much more, while learning what it means to be a family, not just to each other, but to all God’s people.
$265/adult; $165/10 & under; Free/under 3; $860 family cap
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Families of every size and description are welcome to gather and enjoy all that Silver Lake has to offer. We’ll worship together, be challenged by the ropes courses, cool off in the lake, and much more, while learning what it means to be a family, not just to each other, but to all God’s people.
Dean: Sara Krhla
$265/adult; $165/10 & under; Free/under 3; $860 family cap
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Ready to make some new friends? We will spend the week learning to be the best friends we can be to each other, to ourselves, and to God. Laugh, sing, play, climb, swim, worship, and become lifelong friends. Bring your positive attitude and be prepared to “Love God, love your neighbor, and love yourself.”
Deans: Robyn Gray & Cara Michalski
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin: Come join us as we explore the world of Harry Potter and how it connects with God’s call to each of us! Bring your favorite Potter memorabilia and your sense of fun! We’ll look for God’s call in the wizarding world and in our own. We’ll play, pray, swim, sing — and even get in a game of Quidditch!
Deans: Sarah Hrix & Joanna Vastola
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Descend upon Silver Lake Camp & Retreat Center to explore where current events and faith collide. Sing, dance, and laugh throughout camp as you strengthen your convictions and grow bold in your expression. Learn how to respond to events in a way that is true to your faith and yourself.
Deans: Jamie Calligan & Emily McKenna
$675 / $600 / $525
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. If your camper has a medical exemption, please be in touch with Silver Lake as soon as possible.
Vaccine Requirement Announcement
Silver Lake requires all guests to our site to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Those who are not able to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or due to age may show proof of a negative PCR test taken not more than 3 days before the event.
