2020 Camp Highlights
All of our camps are getting creative this summer — a few are running programs with limited campers, others are running virtual camp programs, others have pivoted to solo/family/household retreat offerings, and some are shuttered for the summer to conserve resources. Check out these creative offerings, and consider signing up, sharing with a friend, or donating to support them!
Camp Cross in the Diocese of Spokane has summer staff on-site (including one participant from ECCC’s Staff Exchange Program), but no campers or on-site camp program. They are focusing for the summer on service, worship, and relationship. Learn more in this update from director, Father John Palarine and support them by following all their social media, and subscribing to their YouTube channel.
St. Dorothy’s Rest in the Diocese of California also has staff on-site, but no campers. They are filming a reality TV show! Follow their adventures here.
On the shore of Lake Tahoe in the Diocese of Nevada, Camp Galilee, which celebrates its 100th summer this year, is offering day and overnight family camps — and they are sold out all summer long!
Learn more about their program and protocols here.
Check out other ECCC sites offering family/household retreats here. Contact us to find one near you, for a health- and budget- conscious way to vacation this summer.
Camp Capers, in the Diocese of West Texas, partnered with a local non-profit to prepare and deliver 1,900 “camp in a box” kits to underserved youth populations. Support Camp Capers and the DIocese of West Texas’s two other camping and retreat ministries, Mustang Island Conference Center and Duncan Park here.
Paradise Point in the Diocese of Idaho pioneered a virtual-camp.org platform (a partnership between ECCC and our Outdoor Ministry Connection ecumenical partners) and have developed some remarkably engaging online content, specific to each of their traditional camp weeks. This week, they’ll debut some of their 3D programming!
Diocese of Northern Indiana runs a week-long program at a rented facility each summer. They pivoted quickly this year to send each camper an at-home Camp in Our Hearts 2020 kit, with Way of Love-themed activities (and live and on-demand video instructions)., supportive messages, snacks, snickers, and a hat. They led a week of dynamic online program! Check out highlights and videos from the week here.
The Phoebe Needles Center in the Diocese of Southwest is offering online, full-day, and half-day programs, including escape rooms, cooking classes, movie nights, and caricature drawing lessons, and weekly community service opportunities for individuals and households. All of these are being offered at no cost — check it out!
Camp Stevens in the Dioceses of Los Angeles and San Diego has offered weekly virtual Community Gatherings, their summer camp evening singalongs, each Thursday during the pandemic, and introduced an updated songbook, revised with intentionality with an focus on anti-racism and equity. Camp Stevens has also partnered within their local community to offer CSA boxes from their farm and gardens.
Photo: Mandi Mae Photography
Ascension School in the Diocese of Eastern Oregon has started an intern program for the first time and welcomed 20 young adults to live on-site in community for a month, focused on leadership development, spiritual formation, and work projects on property.
St. Crispin’s in the Diocese of Oklahoma offered a Father’s Day Family Weekend, and have started a day pass program for archery, swimming, boating on-site, in addition to their offering Burgers For Bikers meals offered to the mountain bike community who use the 9+ miles of award-winning trails.
Cross Roads in the DIocese of Newark — a camp that’s both Lutheran and Episcopal —is offering family retreats, virtual day camp, an online leadership lab for high school students, and weekly gatherings with a spiritual director.
Follow them on Instagram; their activity and prayer stories and posts are engaging and instructive!
Camp Marshall in the Diocese of Montana is offering virtual camp, including weekly challenges for campers to complete, virtual worship, and this roundtable about summer in 2020 with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry.
Listen to some incredible camper- and staff- produced music from Camp Marshall here.
Lake Logan and Camp Henry in the Diocese of Western North Carolina, have found ways to serve families and individuals in their community, through drive-in movie nights, new tent camping sites, an expanded day pass program for fishing and boating, and day camps at local churches.
You can support Lake Logan and Camp Henry by sponsoring one of their camp counselors, or purchasing one of these incredible watercolors done by their staff.
