2025 Family Camp Weeks:
June 16 - 21
June 30 - July 5
July 21 - 26
Take your family on the summer vacation of a lifetime! Enjoy exciting activities and games for the whole family, one-of-a-kind “summer camp” experiences for your kids, and wonderful teaching from guest speakers. We promise you the kids will not want to leave (and neither will you!).
Highlights include
Action-packed games and activities for the whole family such as our popular group games like "Mission Impossible", "Juggernaut", and Bubble Soccer, and lots of evening special events.
Endless recreational opportunities such as our 100-foot water slide, ropes and obstacle courses, and hiking across Ridge Haven’s magnificent, scenic property. See more activities available throughout the week here.
Dozens of hard-working summer staff at your service while leading activities for the family and daily Kids’ Camp. Join in or kick back and watch the excitement!
Get to know other families in our dining hall at each meal - all meals throughout the week are included in the cost of camp.
Experience excellent daily teaching, worship, and fellowship with a gospel community.
2025 Family Camp Speakers
June 16 - 21: Sam Taaffe
June 30 - July 5: Joe Novenson
Joe was born in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Joe’s bride, Barb was also born outside of metro-Philadelphia and they met in the summer before Barb’s first year in high school. As high school sweethearts they married when they both completed college.
Barb was among the first Christian’s with whom Joe had any extended relationship. It was her Christ-like character, even as a young woman in high school, that stunningly embodied and clearly expressed the beautiful realities of Jesus’ Kingdom and Grace right before Joe’s heart and mind. They attended Young Life together and in 1968 Christ gave Joe the gifts of repentance and faith for which Barb had been praying.
Barb and Joe were called to ministry side by side in their college years, just before marrying. Upon completion of seminary at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA Joe has served churches in the PCA in Augusta, GA, Lexington, SC and Lookout Mountain, TN.
God has graciously granted Joe opportunities to sit at the feet of and serve by the sides of servants of Jesus in Haiti, India, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkey. He also treasures his friendship with pastors who serve the under-resourced parts of Chattanooga, TN. The Christ-like radiance of the lives of Christians in these cultures and contexts have significantly shaped his life and walk with Christ.
Barb and Joe have three children and 5 grandchildren.
July 21 - 26: Cary Smith
“We love the time that Family Camp creates for us as a couple and for us to spend with our kids. We will be back next year!”
Check out this Family Camp highlight video!
“This coming summer will be my 8th year at RH and I am very excited! This year was my favorite year so far - I just love everything and one of the hardest things for me is leaving RH. I love to hang out, play gaga, swim in the lake, love the games, listening to the evening service, the Barnes dance, the dining hall, the counselors, and the feel of being up there so much! The list goes on and on!!! Life is awesome when you are at Ridge Haven!”
For questions, call us at (828) 862-3916.
Our office hours are 9:00 am - 5:30 pm (Monday - Friday).
“Ridge Haven took care of all logistics so we could really focus on our relationships as a family & enjoy being together. I love that there were always activities available, but no obligations & a lot of freedom to flex to what our family needed”