Church Camp 2011
August 7 - 13
Camp will be held at Tar Hollow from Sunday,
August 7, through Saturday, August 13. The cost is $195 if paid by
May 20th ($215 afterward). A sibling discount will save each youth from the
same family an additional $10. Applications for campers and staff are
available online at
www.sfacamp.org. Campers cannot drive themselves to
camp, but parents may coordinate with each other to transport campers to
and from camp.
Rev. Schnell will be
keeping a list of those youth attending in case families wish to connect
for purposes of caravanning to and from Tar Hollow. Camper applications for Church Camp 2011
are now online at www.sfacamp.org. Adults
young and old will also find applications for a variety of staff roles.
Additional info from Rev. Schnell from the May Spire:
The month of August will find between ten and twenty of our youth
and young adults attending church camp. The unique thing about
church camp is that there are no fundraisers to fund it, or adult
participants to encourage it or staff support to even advertise it
beyond an article such as this. It is a program that continues
year after year strictly on the enthusiasm of the campers
themselves.
If a young person goes to camp, there is a very good chance that
he or she will continue to go. I have been going to this camp
since I was in 6th grade. Among the
staff are counselors who began attending as campers while members of
the first church I served as pastor over 25 years ago.
Last year one of the featured speakers at camp was the President
of the Daytona International Speedway. How did we get him?
He was a former camper and staff person. A Vice-President of
IBM has served on our staff. Last year’s "Counselor of the
Year" award went to a practicing physician. The camp has
received numerous awards and recognition over the years from Parents
Magazine to Ohio’s Governor.
Camp always takes place the first full week in August with
Sunday counted as day one. That means this year’s dates are
August 7-13. The cost is $215.00 and
includes everything: T-shirt, camp photo, yearbook, crafts, meals,
snacks, classes, etc. There is an early bird discount of $20
if registering before May 20. There is a further discount of
$10 per child for siblings attending from the same family.
Finally, "camperships" are available where there is financial need.
Registration information, forms, videos and a host of other
online ways to experience camp can be found at:
www.sfacamp.org. About
the only thing not provided for on that web site is transportation
to and from Tar Hollow State Park where camp is held each year in
its group camp area. Here is where I can be of some
assistance, but you must help me help you. If you let me know
who from your family is attending this year, I will keep a list so
that if you want to be partnered with another family for
transportation purposes I can share that list with you. In
other words, one family can drive the youth to camp on Sunday and
another family can drive to pick them up on Saturday. If you
can email that information to me at Wsch@aol.com, please put Church
Camp in the subject line.
As usual, I will plan to be at camp for at least the second half
of the week so that I can participate in Baptism, Communion,
Vespers, Chapel and Closing services; and continue listening for God
to speak as he does so powerfully in the voice of his youth.
