Covenant Point is one of the earliest examples of the Covenant Church's summer camping movement, which gathered steam in the early 1900's and continues today.  Established in 1926, the camp was created by the then very active Young People's and Sunday School Worker's Conference (YPC) of the Great Lakes region Covenant Churches.  At that time, "young people" included any person in the church who wasn't married, with many people being in their 30's. The YPC served primarily the spiritual needs of young people, with conferences, tent meetings, and other activities.

As the need for a permanent site for these meetings grew, plans began in 1926 to purchase the Lindstrom Farm on Hagerman Lake as a site on which to build a camp. The YPC held its first conference there in August, 1927.  In July of 1928, the week-long tent meeting reached a high end on the closing Sunday, as 600 people came to hear Prof. T.W. Anderson's final sermon on the book of Romans.  The enthusiasm of the meeting was not diminished by a storm that literally "brought down the tent" earlier in the week, but it was clear that the camp needed permanent buildings.  The first of these buildings, the Tabernacle, was built in 1930 with funds raised by the sunday schools and accomodates several hundred people.  Covenant Point celebrated its 75th anniversary season in 2001.