Be Love Revolution

This fall, Be Love Revolution (BLR) bid farewell to our graduated high school seniors, whom we have discipled since they were Pine Hills campers. Our seniors are leaving the BLR “nest” alive in their faith, ready to spread their wings and God’s love!

It’s been a joy to watch them meet Jesus personally and grow from insecure middle schoolers to confident disciples and mature leaders. Growth didn’t happen overnight, but they consistently chose Jesus!

For four years, they showed up to our 6:30 a.m. Bible study and their Abide small group. They helped monthly at the local soup kitchen, led middle school events, worshipped Jesus together, participated in the Mexico mission trip, and served as Pine Hills Camp counselors. Most importantly, they loved Jesus and one another so well as friends and sisters in Christ.

The BLR team was honored to walk with them, and we are excited to see them “be love” in the places God is sending them!

Pine Hills Girls Camp

This summer marked our fortieth year of Pine Hills Girls Camp, and we celebrated God’s faithfulness with another outstanding week! We filled every bed at camp with 204 campers and a staff of one-hundred high school, college, and young adult women. Our theme this year—All Things New—was taken from Revelation 21:5, focusing on God’s promises to bring restoration and renewal to us.

As I reflect with gratitude on the past forty years of camp, I’ve witnessed so much growth and fruit in the lives of our campers, their families, and our staff. Some of our early staff now have daughters on staff and granddaughters as campers!

The camp, which originated for the youth of the Word of God Community and then encompassed our local Christ the King Parish, now serves young girls from more than thirty-eight churches and twenty-five schools in Michigan and other states. This means that we have been able to reach many more girls with the Gospel. It is beautiful to see the Catholic identity of camp grow and be expressed through powerful nights of Eucharistic Adoration, daily confession, the celebration of the Mass, and the witness of the lives of the saints. This year, we even had an afternoon workshop called the Hour of Prayer Power, where campers could choose to spend an hour before the Blessed Sacrament.

For forty years at camp, we have helped girls encounter the personal love of Jesus, learn to identify the lies of the enemy, stand in God’s truth as his beloved daughters, and create authentic, life-long friendships in Christ. We have raised up and formed leaders who are living as missionary disciples in their schools, families, and jobs. And every year, despite the increasing challenges of our world, camp just keeps getting better! Thanks be to God for his faithfulness!

This article originally appeared in the November 2025 Renewal Ministries’ newsletter.