Vision 2012 Renewal and Restoration

The VISION 2012 Capital Campagin begun in 2001, is a ten year fundraising effort to make program and facility improvements beyond the normal operations of camp.  As the camp operations is covered by funds received from fees, 100% of capital gifts go directly to the long term capital improvements of the camp planned and unplanned (like the surprise septic system project the fall of 2009).

Your tax deductible gift is appreciated to support the current VISION 2012 Campaign: Renewal & Restoration. 

Financial update

Revised Projects for Conclusion of VISION 2012 Campaign

Improve Staffville - male summer staff accommodations ($25K)

• Add insulation to cabins
• New roof for cabins
• Put in enclosed bathroom facility.

• Dredge pond of sediment build-up for water activities and year around fish habitat.

Replace Aging Vehicles ($20K)

• Replace Wilderness program Suburbans with van.

Improve Beaver Hogan Facility ($15K)

• Camp owns property at the bottom of the road near highway 67 called "Beaver Hogan" which has an old log cabin on it. With a well, electricity and a septic system, it offers the possibiliy for additional long term staff housing or other ideas. The current facility is unusable as an accomodation.

Projects Already Completed

Acquire 3 Acre Feet of Water Rights

• Purchased 2003

New roof for Eiger, Jungfrau & Heidi

• Completed 2003

Water truck

• Purchased 2003

Wilderness Vehicle

• Purchased 2005

New Eagles Nest Cabin

• Completed 2005

Chalet Emmental Renovation

• Completed 2006

Chapel Roof

• Completed 2006

Well Drilled on Chapel side

• Completed 2006

Eiger Bathhouse Renovation

• Completed 2008

• Replace large wooden doors on south side of Chapel with windows for natural lighting and better insulation.
• New floor surface.
• Add heating system for facility comfort and year-around use.
• Acquire new chairs/benches.
• Celebration of Chapel improvements scheduled for July 26, 2009.
• Completed Spring 2009

Sruprise Sepic System Project

• Operational Fall 2009
• Reclamation of disturbed ground Spring/Summer 2010

How you can participate in and support Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp the rocky mountain ministry

• Utilizing your talents to make a quilt, paint a picture, carve a walking stick, or whatever your gifts might lead you to create in support of the VISION 2012 campaign.
• Volunteering your gifts and talents for a day, a weekend, a week, or more! We’re happy to give you a place to stay and great food while you’re here helping us accomplish campaign projects.
• Offering fi nancial gifts as you are able from $5 - $50 - $500 to $5,000 or more. One hundred percent of all capital gifts go toward VISION 2012 projects as we strive to have fees along with conference and church support cover operating expenses.
• Coming as an individual, family or small group to stay at a facility and financially support the overall operating budget of RMMC.
• Taking advantage of by participating in the variety of programs we offer all year from snow camps, adult retreats, youth camps, wilderness camps and family camps.
• Sharing with friends, family and others about your experience here at Rocky Mountain and encouraging them to see what we have to offer.

Our capital project/volunteer coordinators

Rocky Mountain welcomes Tom Unruh & Jill White to facilitate the continuing VISION 2012 Capital Campaign projects through the fall of 2009. Tom grew up on a farm near Goessel, KS. Jill’s family lived on her great-grandmother’s farm north of Peabody, KS. They met in Marion, KS and were married in 1985. Their mutual interest in public policy, travel, nature, and service, took them from Kansas to Washington, DC, where they spent 13 years working on national health care and economic development issues. Seeking a change of pace, in 2001 they sold their house and moved aboard a 28-foot sailboat in California. Their sailing adventures have taken them across three oceans and 12 countries. For six of the past seven summers they have flown back to the US to work at RMMC. Tom has served as the maintenance director and Jill as the nature studies director and she also worked in the office and kitchen. "We are excited about the coming year at RMMC and the opportunity to spend more time here where we feel our values and interests are in tune with the camp’s mission", said Jill and Tom.