Hej Ladies

Join us as we talk with Emma Holmgren, Calla's daughter. Emma grew up spending summers with her family at Mission Springs and later worked as a lifeguard and a camp counselor at Frontier Ranch. She has some fun memories to share. If you have questions or ideas about the Mission Springs Centennial, please email Jenny at jenny@nwrtw.com.

In this episode, Calla and Jenny talk to Joe and Penny Nokes, long time high school leaders at Covenant Family Conference at Mission Springs. For nearly 20 years, Joe and Penny served the families of Mission Springs by ministering to the youth and helping to plan a musical with them. For many former high schoolers, Joe and Penny made a huge impact on their lives with their devotion to volunteering...

In this episode, Jenny and Calla speak with Greg Asimakoupoulos, a Covenant pastor who has served churches and other institutions in California, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest. He shares some of his favorite memories of Mission Springs after being introduced to the camp while pastor of Crossroads Covenant church in Concord, California. If you have questions or ideas for Hej Ladies, please...

In this episode, Jenny speaks with Alison Holmlund and Kristin Liner, lifelong friends who credit Mission Springs with creating and forming their friendship for the past 50 years. Even though they have lived and worked in different locations—Alison in the tech industry in California and Kristin in the medical field in Texas as a nurse—their bond has remained as strong as their love for the camp th...

For this episode, Calla and Jenny talk to Donna and Dean Erickson. Donna is originally from the Sacramento area and grew up coming to Mission Springs with her family.  She later settled in Minnesota, where she and  Dean raised their family and Donna served as the executive producer and host of the award-winning cooking and crafting TV series Donna’s Day and wrote a weekly syndicated colu...

In this episode, we talk to Ryan Klint who has a lifetime of experiences at Mission Springs—visiting his maternal and fraternal grandparents, working at the flat and Frontier Ranch, and bringing his kids to enjoy summers at camp. At present, Ryan, and his wife Isabel, are working as Wycliffe Bible translators in Mexico translating the New Testament into an indigenous Mexican language alongside ind...

Few couples are as connected to Mission Springs as Ron and Kathy Berggren. Both of them grew up spending their summers at Mission Springs—Ron’s family has enjoyed their cabin since 1931 and Kathy spent her summers at the trailer park until her dad built a family home up the hill  in 1980. Both their parents and grandparents were a part of Mission Springs for many years. Then, at one fateful 4...

In our first episode, Calla and Jenny talk to their parents Mike and Kathy Holmgren. Drawing from their long history at Mission Springs, Mike and Kathy discuss their first memories of the camp, how they met each other and eventually married at Cathedral Grove, and what inspired them to buy their own cabin right before the earthquake in 1989.