july 6-13, 2025

hidden lake and covecrest 2025

Our Summer Trip is the highlight for students year after year! This is the week we long for, countdown the days to and place we long for! Please trust us when we say, you want this experience for your child (and honestly, probably yourself). Our goal is to build a community of faith filled students so that when we come back to Lenexa, KS they have a support system. Friends and adults who are rallying for them to know and love our Lord. We believe in this trip.

This year we will be taking 2 buses. One bus will go to Camp Covecrest and the other to Hidden Lake. Both are Lifeteen camps with amazing things to offer. While they have slight differences, the camps offer overall the same experience. With more students, we aren’t able to all fit at one camp so we are doing the next best thing! Students will put down 2 partners they would like to go to camp with and we promise to honor at least 1 but will do our absolute best to honor both! In Spring we will have an announcement event to share what camp you are going to! No matter what camp you end up going to, we promise it will be a highlight of the summer!

  • Current 8th graders thru outgoing seniors are welcome to join us on our annual summer trip. We will have 2 buses traveling to 2 different camps made up of all Holy Trinity youth ministry students and volunteers. Mac, Zach and Wade, our youth ministry staff will be leading the weeks with the assistance of parent chaperones, our adult volunteers and one of our priests! All are welcome to join, even if you aren’t a Holy Trinity parishioner, we welcome you to join us!

  • We have attended Lifeteen’s summer camps for over 10 years and have always found it to be such a benefit to our students’ faith lives. Both Hidden Lake and Covecrest are authentically Catholic Camps located in the mountains of Georgia. At both camps students will enjoy cabin style housing, fantastic speakers, daily mass, messy games, high and low ropes courses, lots of free time and amazing community. Covecrest will have a day away going white water rafting while Hidden Lake will have a day away kayaking and zip lining.

  • We take our summer trip annually in July. We will depart from Holy Trinity on July 6th after the 5pm Mass and drive thru the night. We will make stops for bathroom, stretching and breakfast and lunch on July 7th. After lunch on the 7th the 2 buses will depart to their respective camps. Students and volunteers will spend the week at camp and leave on July 12th towards Nashville. On July 12th we will spend the night together at a parish and have a final night together. We will celebrate Mass and sleep there before departing on the morning of July 13th when we make our way back to Lenexa. We expect to arrive back at Holy Trinity around dinner time.

  • We LOVE camp. It is a highlight of summer for so many! Students cite this week at camp as a big reason why they are committed to their faith. Students create such a beautiful bond with other participants, volunteers and especially our Lord. It doesn’t matter if a student goes on the trip knowing no one or having many friends on the trip, they all walk away with stronger and new friendships. These friendships and encounter with our Living God help them come to youth ministry and have people to support them in their faith. We could go on and on about the benefits of camp, but the best is to ask someone who has gone before!

  • $535 Please reach out if you are in need of financial assistance. We ask all participants (and their parents) to help with our annual rummage sale that happens once we return from camp. This MASSIVE rummage sale requires tons of work but reduces the cost of camp for every single person by more than $250.