ANNUAL BANQUET 2023
Sunday, March 26, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
At Camp CILCA's Dining Hall! 

Tickets are $40 each.
Call the camp office (217-487-7497) or email (camp@cilca.org) to reserve your tickets today!

The Annual Banquet is an evening celebrating God's work of Creation and Redemption, especially as those works are enjoyed, proclaimed, and taught at Camp CILCA. Join us for an evening of music, food, great speakers, and friends. 

​This year, Mrs. Schuermann will speak about why Christians should read and write.

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GUEST SPEAKER

Author Katie Schuermann lives in central Illinois with her husband of twenty years, the Rev. Michael Schuermann. She began her writing career in Mrs. Kaufman’s fourth grade elementary class, self-publishing poetry in a treasured yellow, teal, and hot-pink spiral-bound notebook. She has since upgraded her trusty notebook to a Mac on which she pounds out articles for publications such as The Lutheran Witness and The Federalist.

Schuermann’s nonfiction books, He Remembers the Barren (LL 2011; 2nd ed, EP, 2017), Pew Sisters (CPH 2013), and He Restores My Soul (EP, 2018), address the topics of suffering and the theology of the cross for the benefit of her sisters in Christ. Her acclaimed Anthems of Zion fiction books, including House of Living Stones (CPH, 2014), The Choir Immortal (CPH, 2015), and The Harvest Raise (CPH, 2017), tell the story of Emily Duke, a choir director from the big city who moves to a small town in Illinois to direct the local church choir.

Schuermann was given an Award of Merit from the Associated Church Press for her journalistic work on the feature article, “A Light in the Darkness,” in the September/October 2013 issue of Lutherans Engage the World, and her debut novel, House of Living Stones, was a 2015 Christy Award finalist under the category of First Novel. Most recently, her hymn text, “Open Wide the Chapel Doors,” was chosen as the winner of the 175th Anniversary hymn competition of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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DINNER & Entertainment

The evening includes a three-course meal from Nelson's Catering, musical entertainment, and Larry Wachtel's world famous homemade fudge!

UpDates!

Where is Camp CILCA now, and where is it going? See what, by the Lord's provision, has been accomplished and what is coming next at CILCA!