Count Down the Days to Christmas with Camp!
Jesus is the center of our Camp community. Let’s celebrate together the coming of the One who brings peace and salvation and life everlasting to humanity. We’ll be posting each day to Facebook and Instagram stories, but you can get our daily post in your email inbox!
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Katrina Mow | Photographer, Author
Katrina first connected to Camp after completing mission work among refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan. She’s served as our photographer many times and also helped in administration, housekeeping, and more. She married her husband Leonard Mow here (he was the Construction Assistant) and the two now have a traveling handyman business and cross-country ministry of encouragement and evangelism. Katrina on Patreon
Ben Cheek | Editor, Designer
Ben is the Executive Director at Camp and enjoys creative projects like this.
Connecting The Advent Calendar
The Advent Calendar is part of Camp’s Prayer, Word, & Worship Initiative — our efforts to fellowship and share deep prayer, immersion in the Word that reveals Jesus, and sold-out worship to the King — even when we’re not all at Camp. As we build this initiative, we’d like volunteers to join us by bringing their artistic and spiritual gifts to bear for the benefit and growth of all of us.
In conjunction with this, projects like the Advent Calendar are also important for our Discipleship & Leadership Development Initiative. A critical part of developing leaders and followers of Jesus is giving them space to develop their voice, style, and ministry. Camp is focusing in the next season on doing this with young adults, so it seemed fitting to invite Katrina, a young adult who considers Camp one of her spiritual homes, to produce this series.
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Come and Pray Lunch & Retreat
Come and PrayPrayer Day with Lunch March 14, 9am-3pm~$30~ Overnight Prayer RetreatMarch 13-14includes March 14 Lunch~$120~ Come seek the Lord’s face with your faith family from all over the Tristate region for a relaxing time of prayer and discussion. We know God is doing amazing things — and he will continue to do more as…
Time to Pray
As followers of Jesus, he is our example in everything. When Camp says in our mission statement that we are “a community of Christ” – this is what we’re saying: we’re a group of people dedicated to the purpose of following and being like Jesus. So the question is, how do we follow Jesus as…
A Place of Prayer
Prayer — especially “vertical prayer” for specific God-revealed mission set apart from the concerns of our life and ministry — is a major theme for Camp in 2026. Maybe you read about this in the Winter Newsletter article “Time to Pray“? We want to extend the invitation to the entire Camp community and beyond —…
Living Abundantly Retreat
Jesus promised his followers an abundant life. Is that just an abstract idea to distract us from earthly misery, or is there real power in Christ to live a full and rich life in the here and now? Young adults are navigating a challenging landscape as they start “adulting” and building a life, so we’ll…
Forgiving Debts: 2025 Woodcutting Season
When Jesus taught his disciples to pray (Mt 6:9-15), he described two big realities where “thy Kingdom Come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven” are realized in the human world: First, he said “give us this day our daily bread”, acknowledging that God’s provision for human need is a central…
“How Do I Donate?”
Recently, a thirteen-year-old guest at Camp asked Operations Director Kevin Smith, “how do I donate?” Kevin was honestly a little surprised, but was happy to see this young member – who was on retreat with one of our owning churches — taking some initiative. Kevin directed him to the website Donate page, and the young…
The Discipleship Down-Low
Defining Discipleship 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded…
The Virtuous Wife
This past weekend, Camp hosted three women’s retreats at Camp. Though the retreat groups were very diverse in background – one was from an urban church plant in Philadelphia, one was from a Garifuna Mennonite church in Brooklyn (an Afro-Caribbean Culture), and one was from a multi-ethnic faith community reaching out in North Jersey. Though…
A Life of Service
I believe the most important thing to God is not our personality, knowledge, or talents, but our availability. How willing and ready are we to respond when He calls, and how ready are we to do what He says? What use to the Lord are people who could do what he wants with excellence and…
Building Belonging
At our February NYC LMC District meeting, we’re discussing the Belonging phase of The Journey Map. In this first phase on the map, individuals and groups on a spiritual journey begin the process of connecting to each other and evaluating the place they may have in each other’s lives. Have you ever been an outsider…