Camp Deerpark
Camp Deerpark, officially Camp Deerpark Inc., also known as CDP, and Camp, is a four-season camp and retreat center serving youth, families, and churches in the New York City region in a Christian Camping environment. Camp offers retreats to churches, youth groups, and ministries year round in a lodge, cabins, and motels and hosts 5…
Read MoreCamp Deerpark and I
As an 11-year-old farm girl from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, I was enthralled riding over the awesome and expansive George Washington Bridge into Harlem, in New York City, in 1956–58. That bridge has remained a landmark in my soul until this day. We visited our sister and her husband, Grace and Jacob Good, who lived in…
Read MoreCamp Deerpark Will Always Be My Safe Place
In all honesty, it has been a true challenge reflecting on what story I want to share about Camp Deerpark. Not because I am unable to think of a memory, but because I have had so many important, valuable and life-changing memories here. How can I sum up in a few words just how amazing…
Read MoreCamp is About Family Coming Together
My family was involved with camp from the beginning. Camp was purchased when I was 7 years old, and I remember my family helped to clean it out and prepare for the first summer camp. The chapel was originally a bar, and my family and the Torres family had to help clean out the bottles…
Read MoreCamper Behavioral Correction Guideline
Overview: It is the goal of Camp Deerpark to provide summer staff with tools, ideas, and a structured system for guiding campers in positive behavior. Because the camp setting is sometimes physically and emotionally draining it is inevitable that camper (and sometimes staff) behavior will at times be inappropriate. As Camp Deerpark staff it is…
Read MoreCamper Discipline
-The importance of good discipline. Discipline is training. It is encouraging a person to be an influence for good in our world. Discipline is a process of learning to do what is acceptable and best for everyone. It is not punishment for breaking rules. When we discipline ourselves and others, we train to do right.…
Read MoreCamper Quotes
Camp is fun and you can make a lot of friends and at the same time you get to learn a lot about God, and when you go home you can share that with other people. —Ariel, 10 I like that we get to go to the pool every day and hang out with our friends.—Sanaa,…
Read MoreCampfires
Campfires can refer to two things: 1) actual campfires, or 2) a category of Program and Communications. Campfires (Communications) Campfires (Communications) are Bible-based devotions and meditations that can be shared anywhere, but are best around a campfire — or read or watched as if you were at a campfire. These themes, thoughts, and media are…
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