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Creator's Classroom

Come enjoy a week of fun and adventure!  We will launch rockets, swim, throw eggs, hike, sing songs and be goofy!  Hang out with old friends, make new ones!

Event #1130

Grades: 4-6

Fees:  $409/424/439

Dates:  June 20-26

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  20

Director
TBA

Circle of Friends Jr.

Circle of Friends Camp means F-U-N!  Join us for a week jam-packed with friendship, fellowship, and fun!  From early morning to late at night, our days are filled with hiking, swimming, worshipping, crafts, and campfires.  Midweek, we will enjoy a canoe trip on the Mohican River.  We’ll wrap up our week with a closing worship to share all we learned during the week with our parents and friends.  Come for new friends, come for fun, and most of all, come to Circle of Friends Camp to have the best week of your summer!

Event #1127

Grades:  5-6

Fees:  $399/414/429

Dates: June 20-26

Location: Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  18

Minimum:  10

Primary Sports Camp

Love to play team and individual sports?  Want to understand the rules of the game? Learn more about yourself, your faith, and the fundamentals of sports and teamwork during this memorable week.  Join us for all this and more!

Event #1102

Grades:  2-3

Fees:  $411/426/441

Dates:  June 27–July 3

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  16

Director

Renee Pore (13^th yr. Dir.) is a member of St. John’s UCC, Mansfield, where she has been the Youth Director and participated in Association, Conference, and National UCC leadership.

Tom Hart (13^th yr. Dir.) is a member of Clague Road UCC, where he has served on the Board of Trustees and the Search Committees.  He is a 7^th-8^th grade Integrated Technology teacher as well as the Middle School Athletic Director.

Love the Pool Camp

A fun-filled camp for anyone who likes the pool. There will be classes to teach you to swim or to swim better. You’ll swim 2-4 times each day, so there will be more pool free time than classes. You’ll share regular camp activities — games, crafts, nature times, and living with other good kids in a cabin. Prepare to love God and people more than the pool!

Co-Directors

Richard Beck (8+ yr. Dir.) is pastor of Grace UCC, Uniontown, Ohio.  He and his wife Marlene are proud parents of three grown children.  He enjoys singing camps songs, and even lullabies when helpful.  A former competitive swimmer, lifeguard, and Water Safety Instructor, Dick still swims a half mile to over a mile 2 to 4 times most weeks.  But to him, loving God is far more important than swimming.  He’s excited that unless new jobs come up, most of the support and counseling staff from last year will be back this summer.  We like each other but have hearts for our campers.

Elli Kalas attended camp for the first time in 7th grade and has been back almost every year since (over 20 years).  Elli is married, mother of two and working full time as a teacher of the visually impaired.  This year her daughter is going to attend camp on her own for the first time!

Intermediate Sports Camp

On your mark. Get set. GO and enjoy one of the most fun-filled weeks of your life!! You don’t have to be a super gal or guy athlete; you just have to try. Come and develop your athletic skills and your faith with friends, old and new. Join the fun and excitement!

Event #1120

Grades:  4–6

Fees:  $411/426/441

Dates:  June 27–July 3

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  54

Directors

Renee Pore (13^th yr. Dir.) is a member of St. John’s UCC, Mansfield, where she has been the Youth Director and participated in Association, Conference, and National UCC leadership.

Tom Hart (13^th yr. Dir.) is a member of Clague Road UCC, where he has served on the Board of Trustees and the Search Committees.  He is a 7^th-8^th grade Integrated Technology teacher as well as the Middle School Athletic Director.
 

Elementary Camps

Junior Outpost Camp

Outpost - a home in the woods!  Come sleep in Conestoga wagons and tents. Share in the fun of cooking over an open fire.  Join in the adventure of taking night hikes, making candles, exploring nature through special walks, playing games, worshipping, swimming, and making new friends. Outpost is a week of work, fun and learning.  Discover and experience Outpost this year!

Event #2124                    

Grades:  5–6                                                  

Dates: June 27–July 3                                     

Fees:  $399/419/434

Location:  Templed Hills

Maximum: 16

Minimum: 13

Director

TBA

Elementary Camps

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Feathers, Fur, Friends

Want to meet new friends this summer?  Hoping some of them have fur, feathers or scales? Come explore God's creation and meet new people and critter friends.  We will hike, explore, visit the nature center and play together—so c'mon down!

 

Event #1122

Grades:  3-6

Fees:  $409/424/439

Dates:  July 4-10

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  24

Minimum:  10

 

Director

TBA

Elementary Camps

CSI Camp - Church and Science Investigators

Church and Science investigators will be learning about various science techniques as they apply to crime scenes and Bible stories.  We will be integrating science, church, and regular camp activities.  By the end of the week, campers will be able to determine who killed Abel, and what we have since been taught about sibling relationships.

Directors
 
TBA

Junior MMADD Camp

Music, mime, art, drama, dance and making new friends — all in one week. We will be playing in the paint and “clowning around,” plus hiking, swimming, and cooking out. We will have fun learning about God and discovering God’s creation. Do you enjoy being creative and sharing your talents? Then join us in going MMADD!

Event #2120

Grades:  4–6

Fees:  $410/425/440

Dates:  July 4–10

Location:  Templed Hills

Maximum:  32

Director

Sarah Zecchini is a 2005 graduate of Sinclair and a 2008 graduate of Miami University with two Associates degrees and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.  She has been involved with various choirs, bands, and drama clubs throughout her scholastic career.  She attended CNS and Senior MMADD Camps as a youth and she spent two wonderful summers as the arts and crafts instructor at Templed Hills.  She has been volunteering with Junior MMADD for six years, co-directing the camp for the last four years.

Dream, Believe, Do Camp

Junior Choir Camp

Calling all kids who love to sing – this awesome camp is for you!  The entire camp rehearses choral selections and a musical every day.  Throughout the week, we will experience many activities, including art and drama, exploring nature, swimming, hiking, singing around the campfire, and more!  Our talented counselors and directors have lots of camping experience (many are former campers!).  If you love making new friends and sharing your singing talents, you need to experience this fun-filled week this summer.

Event #1105

Grades:  2–6

Fees:  $420/435/450

Dates:  July 11–17

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  48

Directors

Aaron Miner (12 yr. Dir.) holds a degree in music education from Bowling Green State University.  He recently finished his Master’s degree in Public Administration at New York University and currently lives and works in New York City.  Previously, Aaron served for six years on the Outdoor Ministries summer staff.

Lori Betz (11^th yr. Dir.) has a degree in Early Childhood Education and is currently a teacher for children who are in traveling Broadway shows.  In the summers, she resides in Cincinnati, Ohio.  She has been involved with the camps for many years, including five years as a summer staff counselor.

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Critter Camps--Otter, Badger, Beaver

Hike! Swim! Sing! Play! Experience who Jesus is while enjoying a week at camp. Experienced directors and faithful counselors will lead campers in toasting marshmallows and Bible study. Making friends and sharing outdoor worship help create a week of camp to remember.

Critter Camps are held in partnership between the United Church of Christ 
and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). 

Otter Camp - Event #1126
Grades: 3 - 5
Fees: $399/414/429
Dates: June 13 - 19 
Location: Camp Christian, Marysville OH
Maximum: 75

Director (Otter)
To be announced. 

 

Badger Camp - Event #2137
Grades: 3 - 5
Fees: $399/414/429
Dates: July 11–17
Location: Templed Hills
Maximum: 56

Director (Badger)

TBA

Elementary Camps

Beaver Camp - Event #1138
Grades: 3 - 5
Fees: $399/414/429
Dates: July 25–31
Location: Pilgrim Hills
Maximum: 72

 

Directors (Beaver)
 
Courtney Klamar is a third year Beaver Camp Director. She has worked with Otter Camp for the past eight years.  She is currently a student at American University in Washington DC and a member of St. John's UCC in Columbus. While at school she attends Westmoreland United Church of Christ and is active in youth leadership at both churches.

 

Willisa Redford has been involved in camp for six years; 2008 was her first year as Camp Director. She has four children, ages from 14 to 4 years. Her four year old was adopted from China. Willisa works at Legacy Christian Church as Director of Children's and Youth Ministries. She loves working with the kids each Sunday morning. She and her husband run the Upward Basketball, Cheerleading, and Soccer ministry in the fall and winter. In her spare time, she reads and runs. Willisa hopes to run her second marathon this May in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Elementary Camps

Nature Art

Do you dig nature and the environment?  Do you dig making super cool art projects?  Hang out with friends and create art and craft projects using nature as a medium.

Event #2130

Grades:  4–6

Fees:  $399/414/429

Dates:  July 11–17

Location:  Templed Hills

Maximum:  20

Director

TBA

Elementary Camps 

Bright Beginnings - 2nd/3rd Grade Camp

Explore nature! Hike! Toast marshmallows at the campfire! Pet a snake (or just watch it wiggle)! Learn to be part of God’s loving family. Making crafts, playing games, singing, swimming, and taking part in vespers (evening worship) add up to a great first overnight camping experience at Pilgrim Hills.

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Genesis Camp

Hiking, swimming, fishing, crafts, cookouts and games are some of the activities you will enjoy during your week at Templed Hills!  We end each day with vespers (evening worship) that we plan together, and we rest each night in our cabins in the woods.  Make new friends and reconnect with old ones.  Learn about yourself and God while we enjoy the outdoors.  Join us for an active and fun-filled week!

Event #2115

Grades:  2-4

Fees:  $399/414/429

Dates:  July 18-24

Location:  Templed Hills

Maximum:  36

Director

Suzy Beckner (20^th yr. Dir.) is a member of First UCC in Shelby.  She is a kindergarten teacher.  Suzy is married and has two young children.

God Rocks! (+bugs!)

Gotta Lotta Camp

Here’s the camp that’s “gotta lotta” everything you want at camp.  There will be lots of cookouts in the woods and swimming, lots of  goofy games and fun activities, lots of singing, hiking, campfires and s’mores… all while making a lot of new friends and learning about God.  It’s going to be a “lotta” fun.

Event #2107

Grades:  5-6

Fees:  $399/414/429

Dates:  July 18-24

Location:  Templed Hills

Maximum:  36

Minimum:  14

Directors

Sara Conner (11^th yr. Dir.) is a veteran camper, counselor, and director.  She is an English teacher in Tiffin, Ohio, and a member of Sycamore UCC with her husband and two daughters.

Linda Sommerfield (10^th yr. Dir.) is a veteran counselor and director.  She is an English teacher in Marysville, Ohio, and a member of First Congregational UCC with her husband and four children.

Camp schedule

Teddy Bears in the Woods Camp

Want to spend a week at camp with your best friend?  Bring your favorite stuffed animal and your sense of adventure!  We’re going hiking, swimming, cooking out and having a super special teddy bear pajama jam!

Event #1140

Grades: 2-4

Fees:  $399/414/429

Dates:  July 25-31

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  18

Director

TBA

Starry Heavens

The stars at night are big and bright out at Pilgrim Hills!  Learn about the heavens, sing songs, play games, hike, swim and sleep under the stars during this awesome adventure!

Event #1145

Grades:  4-6

Fees:  $399/414/429

Dates:  July 25-31

Location:  Pilgrim Hills

Maximum:  20

Director
TBA

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