Cherokee Retreat Center is Cherokee Presbytery of Northwest Georgia's Summer Camp and year round retreating facility.  It is located on 100 acres of beautiful forested land with more than two miles of Lake Allatoona shoreline.  

During the summer, our retreat center serves as a summer camp. When not in use for summer camp, our facilities are available for rent for conferences, meetings, and retreats. Our primary service is to groups affiliated with Cherokee Presbytery, but our facilities are open to anyone. Visit our rentals section for more information on year round conference center information.

Cherokee Retreat Center and all of it's staff seek to create opportunities for Christian growth while living in a caring, safe, fun Christian community and environment. With God's guidance, we seek to play a positive role in nurturing children, youth and adult's faith in Jesus Christ, through creative Bible study, worship, interacting with creation, encouraging self-awareness and sensitivity towards others.

CRC’s unique purpose is to provide an environment where people of all ages can:

Retreat from the secular world

Grow in  authentic Christian faith

Be transformed by the Spirit

Return to transform the world of their daily lives

OVERALL GOALS FOR

CAMPERS

 

Camping is an integral part of the church’s program of Christian Education.  Within a 24 hour-a-day setting, church camping offers a unique opportunity to participate in Christian communal living as each camper and counselor is challenged to grow in, explore and act on their Christian faith.

Nature is to be discovered and enjoyed and is a means to bring campers and counselors to an awareness of God as Father, Creator, and Redeemer.  Living within God’s creation and caring for that creation through a variety of activities and responsibilities allows campers and counselors to understand and practice servant leadership, as modeled by Jesus Christ.