Bring the whole family to Rainbow Trail to experience fun, quality family time, and spiritual renewal! Enjoy hikes, games, various activities, optional white water rafting and our outstanding home cooking. Our program includes Bible study for all ages including adults. Specific program information is available by contacting the camp office. Come enjoy a wonderful week in the mountains by yourself or with your whole family!
Don’t forget about our Labor Day Family Weekend – a traditional “end of summer” camping celebration. Sessions fill quickly, so register early!
AGE REQUIREMENTS — All ages. Families & Individuals
2026 DATES
June 28 – July 4 (Summer Family Camp #1)
August 2 – 8 (Summer Family Camp #2)
September 4-7 (Labor Day Family Weekend)
2026 WEEKLONG FEES
Adults Rate: $540.00 ($300/family deposit required at registration) |
2026 LABOR DAY FEES
Lodge Cabin |
A TYPICAL SUMMER FAMILY CAMP SCHEDULE
Days at Family Camps are jammed packed with activities that you can choose from. All activities are optional however, and we hope that you will make it your own experience by choosing to join in those you like, or take time to just sit and enjoy the beauty of God’s creation that surrounds you!
8:00 Breakfast
9:15 Worship
9:45 Bible Study for all ages (Adult Study led by Guest Speaker. Children’s Study led by RTLC staff)
10:45 Break (Snacks will be available on the porch of Columbine)
11:00 Continue Bible Study for Adults — Power Hour for the kids (Songs and Activities)
12:15 Lunch
1:00 Rest Hour
2:00-5:00 Afternoon Activities
5:00 Challenge Hour
6:00 Dinner
6:30 Family Time and Open Volleyball
7:15 All Camp Activity
8:15 Campfire and Evening Devotions
8:45 Babysitting Begins
9:00 Games in the main room of Columbine
GUEST SPEAKERS & SPECIAL GUESTS
Each year, dynamic speakers and other special guests join us to lead Adult Bible Study’s and specialized crafts and activities. They participate in the life of the camp and are excited to get to know you while you are with us.
BIBLE STUDY LEADER: June 28 – July 4, 2026
We are excited to introduce the Rev. Paul Oman as the adult Bible study leader for our July family camp. Paul, artist and pastor, shares his Drawn to the Word artistic ministry with audiences ecumenically across the country. He served as a science teacher, then Lutheran pastor when, in 2011, he took up work as an artistic pastor full-time.
Paul seeks to give new vision to God’s Word by using the process of painting to captivate audiences in our visually oriented culture. Painting and drawing have been a part of Paul’s life since childhood. Receiving national & international recognition for his work in watercolor, Paul uses this gift to proclaim the Gospel unique and powerful ways that impact lives and inspire mission.
Paul works in many settings, including congregations, schools, universities, seminaries, camps, prisons, non-profits, and more. The larger-than-life sized murals are painted with acrylics on stretched canvas.
Paul lives near Amery, Wisconsin with his wife, Jana, and their children.
Paul’s’s Bible study will focus on “Bringing the Stories of Jesus to Life Before Your Eyes.” Throughout this week you will hear AND SEE the stories, dramatic encounters, miracles and parables of Jesus come to life before your eyes as Paul paints on large-scale canvases while he teaches.
We will explore the often overlooked meanings of these stories in our Western world culture as we consider how they were understood and experienced “through Middle Eastern eyes” in the time of Jesus. Paul will reference the work of Kenneth Bailey who spent a lifetime living in and teaching the Scriptures out of the cultures from which they derived. Music, dramatic readings, and sound effects will accompany the painting process.
You will have opportunities to actively participate at your own comfort level in a paint-along, guided sculpture, games, and FUN! No artistic experience necessary whatsoever. Bring a Bible and watch the stories come alive again! This will be an unforgettable experience in God’s Word.
RESIDENT MUSICIAN: June 28 – July 4, 2026
2026 Family Camp Musician Info coming soon!
We are excited to have Nick Ehrhardt joining our July family camp again in 2025! Nick is no stranger to camp, serving in many and varied roles throughout the past 26 years. Well, this summer, we’re excited to have Nick back during family camp in his newest role, as the Resident Musician for Family Camp 1. Nick currently resides in Palmer Lake, CO working as an ICU nurse and building a house for his family. Playing and writing music is the activity that keeps him sane between too many varied tasks. You have probably seen him play at a picking party or camp talent show or two, and his name can be found in the credits of a handful of Rainbow Trail favorite camp songs. You might run into him around Colorado playing at a local coffee shop or brewery, where he plays under the stage name Shorthand Charlie (www.shorthandcharlie.com). Homegrown and handcrafted, blue stompin’ folk. Original music built from the ground up.
BIBLE STUDY LEADER: August 2-8, 2026
We are excited to introduce the Dr. Jer Swigart as the adult Bible study leader for our August family camp.
Jer is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Global Immersion, a national non-profit that forms Reconciling Leaders and communities of Everyday Peacemakers to mend divides. His approaches to conflict transformation have been honed by 20 years of work within war zones. Whether with military leaders on international battlefields, stakeholders on the divided streets of U.S. American cities, or executive teams in organizational and congregational boardrooms, Jer is adept at guiding customized processes that disarm conflict, transform leaders, and forge conflict-competent teams. He’s particularly interested in companioning faith leaders who have become disillusioned by the incongruence between the values of Western Christendom and those of Jesus.
RESIDENT MUSICIAN: August 2-8, 2026
We are excited to have Paul Bogart returning as our resident musician to our August family camp in 2026. If you were to turn on an old transistor radio and tune it to a country station, you might hear legends like Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash crooning from the speakers…but Paul Bogart could just as easily fit alongside that vintage lineup. Though his songs are fresh and he himself is young, he is an old soul with a knack for capturing time-honored traditions and summing up classic sentiments in catchy, three-minute songs. Exuding sincerity and a rare, down-to-earth charm, Paul Bogart is, simply put, the epitome of traditional country music. Paul comes to us from Oologah, Oklahoma. Paul is married to Tanya and they have three awesome kids, Jett, Ace, and a sweet baby girl named Gentry
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2026 Registration Opens November 1, 2025.
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