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Lives changed. Eternally.

Every dollar given to Hume helps plant seeds of the gospel in the hearts of students, families, and beyond.

Wagon Train · Hume Lake

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Ways to give

Every gift helps make ministry at Hume possible. Give to what matters most to you, or give where the need is greatest.

Giving areas

Meadow Ranch campers playing a rec game

Camperships

Sends a child who could not otherwise come. Hume gave more than $1M in 2025.

Fund a Camper
Baptism in the lake

Ripple of Hope

The master plan projects at Hume Lake: investing in generations to come.

See the Campaign
A modern brick building with large windows and peaked rooflines sits beside a calm pond, surrounded by tall pine trees, with several people visible on the deck and grounds.Current priority

The Ark

Phase one of Ripple of Hope: renewing a cornerstone of camp for greater ministry impact.

Build with Us
Aerial view of Hume Lake at sunset.

The Endowment

Gifts held and invested so Hume’s ministry outlives all of us.

Invest in the Future
Young adults together on the dock at Hume in autumn.

Legacy Giving

A gift through your will or estate. The week that changed you, given to someone else.

Plan Your Legacy
A group of young people sit on wooden benches arranged in a circle around a large wooden cross on a hilltop at sunset, with forested mountains visible in the background.

JWI Scholarship

Named scholarship support, sending students who apply through the fund each summer.

Support a Scholar

Truth Proclaimed. Truth Experienced. Truth Carried Home.

The Gospel at Play...

Spiritual transformation

Week after week, people encounter the living God at Hume. Many hear the gospel for the first time. Many more respond in faith, making commitments that shape the rest of their lives.

Purposeful Programming

At Hume, the program isn’t separate from the message: it helps bring the message to life.

Going home changed

What happens at Hume doesn’t stay at Hume. Campers, retreat guests, families, and church leaders return home renewed and ready to be salt and light in their schools, families, churches, and communities.

Students with hands raised during indoor worship at Hume.

This week has really changed my life, from becoming new to faith to really giving my life to Jesus.

Ponderosa Camper · 2026

Hume at a glance · 2025

Look what your generosity made possible

Because of donors like you, here is what a year at Hume added up to.

  • 54,966

    Guests served

  • $1,023,453

    Given in camperships

  • 470

    Summer staff employed

  • 1,920

    Camp beds at Hume Lake

  • 10,000

    Hours worked by volunteers

  • 2,401

    Prayer partners

The bigger story

You’re part of creating lasting change

Since 1946, Hume has stood in the Sierra Nevada mountains as a place where the gospel goes deep. What began as a small family camp has grown into one of the most trusted names in Christian camping. Every summer, thousands of students spend a week removed from the noise of ordinary life. No phones. No performance. Just Scripture, community, and the undeniable nearness of God.

When you give to Hume, you are not funding a program. You are funding a moment: the moment a child or teenager hears the truth of the gospel, some for the first time, and everything shifts.

The week at Hume is our most important week of the year in youth ministry.

Hume Tour · Heart · 2:59

Hume Tour: Heart, a short film about what camp is for

Hume Tour · Heart · 2:59

The campaign

Built for Play. Made for Connection.

The Ark is where camp gathers and memories are made: broom hockey in winter, basketball all summer, decades of camp traditions in between and the place thousands of students grew in their understanding of the gospel. Renewing the Ark is not a construction project. It’s about creating more opportunities for all of it.

Give to the Ark

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 Legacy

Hume works with PhilanthroCorp, a planned-giving partner who helps donors and their advisors do this well, at no cost.

A group of young people sit on wooden benches arranged in a circle around a large wooden cross on a hillside, with two leaders standing in the center and forested mountains visible in the background during golden hour.

Eighty years in, the ripple 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 Today

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Other ways to give

Not everyone gives by card

A check in the mail, a donor advised fund, or a conversation with someone at Hume. All three reach the same place.

  • By mail

    Make checks out to “Hume Christian Camps” and send to:

    Hume Christian Camps ATTN: Development 5545 E. Hedges Fresno, CA 93727

  • Donor advised fund

    Recommend a grant to Hume through your donor advised fund. Hume is set up for online requests through several of the larger providers.

    Start a DAF request

  • Talk to someone

    Hume’s Development team can take a gift over the phone, answer a question about a fund, or help with a gift of stock or property.

    (559) 305-7407development@hume.org

Questions?

Talk to the Development team.

Ask about a gift, a fund, a pledge, or anything on this page. A person reads every message and will get back to you.

Do you prefer the phone? Call our Development team 1 (559) 305-7407