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Recent news about Imperial Valley Holiness Camp.

The Youth Worker 2025 is Brenna Brimer!

We are excited to bring Brenna to IVHA this summer to work with our youth kids.  She is a favorite with the kids at church youth group on Wednesday nights.  Brenna will continue to help the teens grow in their faith this summer!  

Brenna Brimer lives in Lance Creek, Wyoming, where she ranches with her husband, Dalton. With a deep love for Scripture and a heart for discipleship, Brenna is dedicated to teaching the Word of God to both teenagers and adults. She brings five years of hands-on ministry experience through leading and teaching at InFaith Camp Grace and her local church’s youth group. Brenna also shares biblical insights through her weekly online publication, Theology on the Prairie. A lifelong learner, she actively pursues theological education through reading, podcasts, and college classes. Some of Brenna’s favorite things include chocolate ice cream, dogs with short legs, and Western artwork.

 

Worship at IVHA 2025

If you love modern worship music, you are in for a treat this year at Imperial Valley Holiness camp!  The Lusk Wyoming Community Youth Band will be leading us in worship during the 7:00 pm service each night as well as all 3 services on Sundays.

Last year if you came to camp, you got to listen to the youth during Harmony Hour every night.  It was during camp last year that several of these kids received a call from the Lord to music ministry as a career in the future. Since camp, the Wyoming portion of that band has worked many hours to improve their musical skills and grow their relationship with the Lord. Several of them play on the Sunday morning worship team, but the entire band leads their peers in worship every Wednesday night at the Community Youth Group. They hosted their first concert in March and continue to share their gifting where ever possible.  Listening to the testimonies of teenage kids is especially inspiring.

For those of you who prefer hymns to the modern worship music, do not be dismayed!  The Band plays hymns regularly on Sunday mornings and will sprinkle them in through out each service during camp.

 

2025 Missionaries, Meshak and Cate Habib

Our missionaries this year come to us in a different way that we typically are used to.  Meshak and Cate Habib are Kenyan missionaries to the United States.  They are serving in Texas and have been in the US for about 3 years.  Their daughters, will be joining them at camp this year as well!  Missionary Day will be on Thursday, July 24 and the Habib’s will be sharing during the 7:00 service that day.  They will be at camp for the entire camp helping out and sharing individually as well.

“Even them I will bring to My holy mountain.” Isaiah 56:7 (NKJV)

“As the Habib family, we are called to disciple and nurture the immigrant diaspora and multicultural community in Dallas, Texas, aligning with God’s vision of gathering people from every nation, tribe, and language into His house of prayer. Our ministry is focused on guiding individuals and families to live Christlike lives, walking alongside them as they develop into potential leaders who reflect the love and truth of Christ in their communities.

Through university and college outreach, as well as leadership development, we aim to equip students and emerging leaders to integrate their faith into their lives, empowering them to impact the world around them. Both of our daughters actively engage in this mission, using their gifts and talents to connect with peers and their families, building bridges to the church and the greater community.

This work is a family calling, a sacred mission, and a response to God’s heart for the nations. Together, we seek to see lives transformed, leaders empowered, families restored, and communities united under the Lordship of Christ for the glory of God.”

Rev Ron Richmond to be the 2025 Evangelist at IVHA

Rev. Ron Richmond is an ordained minister. Currently, he is serving as an evangelist, which he has done twice before and has preached in 10 different denominations. From June, 2010 to April, 2024 he was the Lead Pastor at the First Church of the Nazarene in Highland, IN. Highland is extremely strong spiritually and financially. The commitment level of the board members as well as the average attender is unusually high for an American church today.

Before Ron went to Highland, he was a Youth Pastor in two churches and a Senior Pastor in three churches, as well as an evangelist for 11 years. He has been the guest speaker for revivals, camp meetings, SS Conventions, retreats and for pastors’ conferences. In 2001 Ron received specialized training as a consultant in church health from Natural Church Development, and from New Church Specialties as a coach to pastors on refocusing. (“Returning the focus of the church to God’s original intention, making disciples.”) So when Ron was an evangelist, he also served as a consultant to pastors, church boards and churches.

Ron has also been a motivational speaker for non-profit organizations like the Red Cross and for corporations like Primerica, Zondervan and Impra.

Ron’s greatest joy is to be used by God in a way that produces spiritual change in the lives of people. “Changed lives” is what ministry is all about to Ron, and that’s what he has watched God do in amazing ways for many years.

Brother Ron will be bringing the word each evening during camp at the 7:00 pm service.  He will also be teaching an adult Bible Study each morning at 10:30 am.  The Sunday schedule will be the same as in the past with Brother Ron preaching at 10:30 am, 2:00 pm, and 7:00 pm.  We look forward to having you join us this year to see what the Lord has to show us.

 

June 2022 Work Days Progress

Work days for IVHC were scheduled for June 9-11, 2022. A tree on the east side of the large tabernacle was removed before they started putting the metal roofing on that side. The crew got the entire east side of the tabernacle roof put on as well as made some good progress on the north side.
Thank you to the crew that came and put in time to help with the maintenance of the camp!