A Letter from the Executive Director
It’s our 75th Anniversary!
On February 15, 1951, the Board of Trustees of Wheaton College approved Harve Chrouser’s plan to start a leadership school on the HoneyRock property in Three Lakes, WI.
Here’s the original mission and purpose of HoneyRock in Harve’s own words:
“While Honey Rock is called a camp, it is essentially an educational project designed to be a leadership laboratory providing an internship experience where the student undertakes total leadership responsibility of the cabin group in a camp-living situation...The HoneyRock idea was to create for the student a new kind of teaching-learning environment, unlike the school model. We wanted, as much as possible, to use the wilderness's lakes, rivers, forests, and mountains as the classroom for both students and campers, as well as to take advantage of the limitless possibilities of the in-camp program. We sought to de-formalize teaching and make it more relational and discipling.”
This approach, so innovative at the time, is now more relevant than ever.
For this 75th year, we’ve chosen a theme passage inspired by our wonderful mission; so the next generation, as those before, will know the glorious deeds of the Lord!
“We will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord...so the next generation might know them - even the children not yet born – and they in turn will teach their own children.” (Psalm 78:4-6)
We will be celebrating this wonderful history and our 75th year throughout 2026 – please see the save-the-dates below. We hope you will join us.
God Bless,
Matt Erickson ‘95
