Travel Information
Airport Information
Airport transfers will be provided from Dallas-Forth Worth (DFW), Dallas Love Field (DAL) or Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR).
Airport transportation fees: $25.00 each way.
Airport Arrival & Departure Restrictions:
We will be utilizing a coach service to transport everyone who is flying in to and out of camp this year. More detailed information will be included in your acceptance packet. Please do not book your tickets until you have received your acceptance packet, as we will be unable to assist in transportation of people outside the available window.
Arrival Dates/Times
| Position | Arrival method | Date | Time |
| Staff | Flying/airport transfers | Sunday, July 5, 2026 | Before 3:00pm |
| Driving | Sunday, July 5, 2026 | Between 1:00-3:00pm | |
| Campers | Flying/airport transfers | Tuesday, July 7, 2026 | Before 3:00pm |
| Driving | Tuesday, July 7, 2026 | Between 1:00pm and 4:00pm |
Departure Date
Monday, July 20, 2026, no later than 10:00am unless staying for Preteen camp.
For those flying, please plan on finding a morning flight, as everyone will be taken to the airport in time for morning flights.
Questions
Questions regarding camp should be directed to Jonathan McNair (Camp Director):
(704) 844-1970
[email protected]
Questions regarding camp, the application process, or payments should be directed to Jenny Penman at:
(980) 254-0132
[email protected]
Camper Life
The Activities for 2026:
Aquatics, Canoeing, Communications, Dance, First Aid Class, Gym Sports, Life Roles (Men’s), Life Roles (Women’s), Music, Outdoor Skills, SEP (Scripture Education Program), and Ultimate Frisbee.
The Staff Service Areas for 2026:
Dishwashing, First Aid, Kitchen, Laundry, Logistics, Media, Mini, and Office/Admin.
| 6:30 – 7:40 | Wake up/Showers |
| 7:45 – 8:30 | Breakfast/Counselor’s Meeting |
| 8:40 – 9:00 | Staff Briefing in Dining Hall |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | All-Camp Christian Living at the Chapel |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Activity Period #2 |
| 12:00 – 1:10 | Lunch and Camper Fellowship Time |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Dept. Head Meeting |
| 1:15 – 1:45 | Rest Period |
| 2:00 – 3:00 | Activity Period #3 |
| 3:15 – 4:15 | Activity Period #4 |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Activity Period #5 |
| 5:35 – 6:30 | Dinner |
| 6:45 – 8:00 | Evening Activities |
| 8:00 – 8:25 | Fellowship Time |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Evening Reflection |
| 9:00 –10:00 | Campers: Showers/Family Time/Dorm Meeting |
| Staff: Leaning Elephant Campers: Lights Out | |
| 10:15 | Staff: Curfew — In Dorm Areas |
| 11:00 | Staff Lights Out — Quiet & Peace in the Camp of Israel |
The Campus
Lone Star Camp is located on two hundred seventy-eight acres in the beautiful pinewoods of East Texas. In the heart of this camp lies a picturesque, spring-fed twenty-five acre lake. Housing includes rustic and modernized cabins, houses, and boys and girls dormitories. Facilities include a welcome center, air-conditioned gymnasium (complete with classrooms and a dance studio), an outdoor pavilion (seats three thousand), a cafeteria (seats four hundred), grass-covered playing fields for soccer, football and softball, an in-ground twenty-five-meter outdoor swimming pool, an archery range, and two dozen RV sites.
- The Front Gate
- Field Sports
- The Pavilion – Men’s Life Roles
- The Office
- The Chapel
- The Cafe
- The Splash Pad and Rock Wall
- The Gym and classrooms
- The Pool
- Dorms
- Oak Lodge – Meetings and classroom
- The Kitchen and Dining Hall
- Boat Ramp – Canoeing
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The Front Gate
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Field Sports
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The Pavilion – Men’s Life Roles
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The Office
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The Chapel
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The Cafe
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Splash Pad and Rock Wall
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The Gym (including classrooms for dance, S.E.P. and Topics and Dance)
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The Pool
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Dorms
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1st Floor – Counselor & Department Head meeting space and speech classroom
2nd Floor – Women’s Life Roles
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The Kitchen / Dining Hall
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Canoe