Mustang Island Retreat Testimonials

Mustang Island Conference Center is blessed to have a wide variety of churches, businesses, and organizations participate in retreats and conferences on our grounds.

We would love to share your stories about your adult retreat or conference at Mustang Island Conference Center. Please submit 100 words or less to Laura Shaver at laura.shaver@dwtx.org.

Summer Family Camp Testimonials

Family Camp has been such a blessing to our family.  Our first session was during Thanksgiving on the Island.  Our oldest daughter was in 1st grade at the time and our youngest had just turned 1.  We also had two other daughters in between there!  We were a bit nervous about traveling, but immediately felt right at home.  We heard people say this is your island home and it immediately set with us.  We have since attended Family Camp each summer and have continued to attend Thanksgiving on the Island as well.  We all look forward to the trip each year.  We relax, play, worship, and just enjoy being together without the stress of the outside world.  Our girls truly have ownership in the program.  As we pull into the driveway for each visit, we are home.

Amy Hudson

While at Mustang Island Family Camp we always feel welcomed and at home. The food is fabulous. The simply structured schedule allows for relaxation, play, fellowship, and worship. For us, family camp is a time to tune out the daily clutter in our lives, become focused on each other, and the people with whom we share the camp experience.

Scott and Alice Lee Penrod; Pharr, TX

The James Family; New Braunfels, TX

Marley:  It feels like my family. I love the crafts. And I love meeting new friends there.

Marcy:  The beach is really fun.  I get to meet new friends and spend time with my family.

“Family Camp is a jewel on the Gulf Coast.  Every time we drive up we find a sense of peace that overcomes us and we can just let go and let God renew us and strengthen us.  All my family can go and get great food, fellowship and lots of relaxing time.  To top it off we worship together as a family.  Worshipping together is the most beneficial event we do together.  We all seem so much more connected.  Another highlight are meals.  It’s exciting getting up in the morning and going in the dining hall and seeing everyone and smelling the bacon cooking and I can’t rave enough about the food. 

Mustang Island was a place of healing the summer of “Bear one another’s burden” after Jane (my wife) died as we all were able to get together and experience Christ’s great healing through teaching by Erin Koehler (Spelled right?) of how  Jesus died for me to carry my burden of grief.  Oh how I felt such relief from my pain and grief.  I know that all my family healed that weekend and we helped each other with our burden of grief and pain by being there for each other.

I can’t wait to take my grandkids to Mustang Island.  There is no better environment that I have experienced.   I have always loved the beach, the sun, the waves, and the sound of the ocean.  God’s amazing resource to enjoy is truly Mustang Island.  I can’t wait to go back and get some great food, worship, and fellowship with my family and families from all over the Diocese of West Texas.  Peace!”

Johnny Cozad; McAllen, TX

When I think about places where God has worked in my life, Mustang Island is one of them.  It was the summer of 2010 when I had the chance to be myself in ministry, a chance to dress up like a pirate every weekend and use one of my many awful accents to lead kids on a treasure hunt. I went into that summer 2010 having made a bet with God.  “God, if I like this camp ministry thing, if I have a good time, I will quit teaching and move to Wisconsin for graduate school.” A bit of advice -  don’t make bets with God at the beach.  He wins. To read more of Allie's story, please click here.

I would say without a doubt that Family Camp is one of the best vacation bargains ever. It's a wonderful way to relax and spend time with your family without sweating ANY details. It's like a resort with private beach access--with the added bonus of the Christian community. I loved having the "village raising the children" for 4 days--and wish it could have been longer. (But we would have had to go buy more sunscreen.)With families spread out by time and space, Family camp offers a setting to reconnect in a very easy way. We loved it and can't wait to go back.
Thank you, Alice Sneary

Our family attended Mustang Island Family Camp for the first time and had a wonderful experience. Our two year old daughter continues to ask if she can go to "Mustang Island" almost daily. We were not sure how she would react to the ocean, but she seemed to run everywhere and was entertained inside and out. It was our first real experience on the beach with our daughter and we look forward to next summer.
Blessings, Kelly Harris

I attended 2 family camp weekends this summer.  Both of my children and their respective offspring thoroughly enjoyed their stay.  The length is perfect.  The day is scheduled very well around normal “nap” times for both kids and parents and grandparents.  The BEST thing is being at the beach and having so many kids play and enjoy the beauty of the ocean/sand/waves/water with one another.  It goes without mention that the food is superb and the hospitality genuine.  It is having the simple things at their best that makes family camp such a success.  Good food, good beds, good showers, good people, good God.
Thanks, Sandy Casey-Martus