“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” — John Burroughs We’re in that season now when our Camp & Retreat Centers may seem like they are …
Camp & Retreat Centers promote fall fun- and fund-raising efforts
After a bustling summer camp season* at our Camp & Retreat Centers (CRCs), even as images and echoes of playful children fade into memory, the fall season has arrived, when retreats and other events fill the calendar. Meanwhile year-round fundraising …
Summer camps enrich, elevate young lives
Teenager Caeli Connolly, of St. Paul’s UMC in Elizabethtown, has been coming to Gretna Glen’s summer camp for 12 years but finds it new and exciting every time. “No two experiences are ever the same, whether you’re boating, hiking, making …
Gretna Glen to host multicultural youth retreat
“Actively Discovering Human Diversity.” With that intriguing title, Gretna Glen Camp & Retreat Center in Lebanon will host two dozen teenagers of different racial-ethnic groups, all in grades 8 to 12, for a weekend retreat March 3-5. Just as the …
Our camps—changing seasons and young lives
It is the darkest, coldest season of the year, but that should not stop us from thinking about the months to come when spring will bring new life, warm sunlight and…CAMP! We are so richly blessed with four fantastic outdoor …
For everything there is a season
… and a time for every matter under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-22) By John W. Coleman Seasons are a wondrous gift to us all from our Creator. Throughout our lives we witness changing seasons of nature and nurture in everything, for as …
Summer camps offer ‘God’s Love without Boundaries’
The adventure of Summer Camp ends in early August at the Eastern PA Conference’s four bustling Camp & Retreat Centers. But what an awesome, animated, action-packed adventure it has been for hundreds of blessed young campers, as well as counselors, …
LUMINA needs Camper Care Sponsors
LUMINA, a cooperative mission project of the Eastern PA Conference serving the Southwest District, is searching for Camper Care Sponsors for to help 32 deserving children and youth attend go to Gretna Glen’s Christian Camp in July. The 32 earned what is …
Camp & Retreat Centers are ministry in motion
Our four conference-owned Camp & Retreat Centers are accepting registrations for Summer Camp 2016, as well as applications for staff and volunteers. The 2016 Summer Camp theme is God’s Love without Boundaries. Children, youth and families who sign up can …
Camp & Retreat Centers welcome winter’s wisdom
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose,” wrote Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1861, “if there were no winter in our year!” Our year-round camp and retreat centers are getting a head start on the big chill, welcoming …