Augustana Blog

Meet Your Camp Kesem Augustana Counselors! [Part 1]

Hello Camp Kesem Families! We hope summer is treating you well! In order to get ready for camp, each week we’ll be featuring Camp Kesem Augustana Counselors here on the blog. As returning families know and new families may have heard, everyone here at Camp Kesem Augustana chooses a “Camp Name” to be called by [...]

May Updates

Hello again Camp Kesem Augustana Families!   We here at Camp Kesem Augustana hope you are enjoying this summer weather! Augustana College is out for the summer which means Camp Kesem business is moving right along. We are getting incredibly close to fundraising our goal of $45,000 in order to make camp possible and want [...]

Info Night on April 2nd

Hello Camp Kesem Families! Sparrow here to tell you all that you’re invited to attend Camp Kesem Augustana College’s informational night on Tuesday, April 2nd at the Two Rivers YMCA located at 2040 53rd St in Moline, IL. This is a chance for all new families to meet some of the counselors and ask questions [...]

January Update!

Hello camper families, Scooby here again on this Super Bowl Sunday updating you awesome people on the goings-on of CK Augustana as we approach closer and closer to camp. A few nuts and bolts here in terms of some updates: Our Trivia Night and Silent Auction will be February 7th from 6-10 pm at the [...]

Camp Kesem Augustana 2013 Applications Open!

Hello all! Sparrow here instead of Scooby. Welcome to the new year and the opening the applications for our summer 2013 camp to all families! This year’s application process is completely redone. Instead of filling out paper copies, these applications are completely online.  You can access the Camp Kesem Camper Application and apply for this year’s [...]

Hello all!      Scooby here again, happily reporting in for duty.  The past few weeks have been busy ones for us! We just got done with our winter reunion and it went fantastically! I think I can speak on behalf of all the counselors when I say that we loved seeing our kids and [...]

Winter Updates:

Howdy all, This week we have a bit of nuts and bolts updates. I’ve got some info to share in regards to our reunion as well as on applications for our 2012-2013 camp. Also this week, I’ve got another ‘Why I Kesem’ from the Kesem Archives. This comes from one of our new members. She [...]

Augie Counselor Archives

Hello Kesem Families! Scooby here, reporting in for Sparrow. As the new author of this blog, I’d like to say hello to all of you and express how excited I am to keep you updated on the goings-on of the Kesem team over here at Augie. We hope that school is going well for all [...]

Camp Kesem Augustana Updates!

Hello Kesem Families! We hope the rest of your summers have gone well! School at Augustana has already started and we’re already hard at work with planning this upcoming year of Camp Kesem Augustana! With that, it’s my pleasure to introduce several new members of the Camp Kesem Augustana Coordinator Team! The coordinator team does [...]

Camp Kesem Augustana 2012 Reunion!

Hello Kesem families! I’m pleased to announce that Camp Kesem Augustana will be hosting its first ever reunion on Wednesday, August 22nd at the River Bandits game at the Modern Woodman Park in Davenport, IA. This event will begin at 6pm and the actual game will start at 7pm. We are hoping all families can [...]