The Ohio Independent Baptist, Winter 1996

, Keeping Up With Our Camps Scioto Hills 1009 Martin Rd . Wheelersburg , OH 45694 614-778-2273 S cioto Hill i excited lo inlroduce it nev.. e t permanent taff n1ember . Jon and Tri ·h Picken ' . Jon gradualed from Cedarville College with a degree in Chri tian Education. Bolh Jon and Tri h ha\ e worked on the urnmer ta ff- in fact. the 1 met while coun el ors. Jon 1 excited to use his degree to de\ elop di t1nct age-graded program , taking into con ideration the different tyle of learning al each age. Scioto demons trate commitment to it program by calling Jon a the full -time program manager. What a window of opportunily we have for expansion of the cioto Hills camp1 ng min is try. It 1 the prayerful desire of all involved in Scioto that the camp move forward, not for the ake of grov.., th. but to please God in a ll we do . It 1 on that note that the board agreed to take the next tep 1n a long and wel l– thought-out camp improvement plan . the exca\allon of a large act ivity fie ld for a rcgulauon soccer field as well a · several buildings . We arc excned to report the Acu, It)' Center is near completi on and \hould be u~able by the summer eason. Wnh record aue ndance each year, the tune for th,', ~tep has come. W1th the Lomple uon of the new field , the camp wiJ I be one \ tep further 111 It ~ attc1npt to move the da 1 -to-day c.:a1npcr act1v1t1e!:> Lo a more Lentral and p1cture!:>quc ~e tung. ·ewRa11ch 7241 T.R 319 Millersburg, OH 44654 21 6 674-7511 ~un1mer Junt' 17-22 June 24 :!9 July I 6 Jul} e; - J Jul) 15 20 Jul, 22-27 • Jul) 2'J Aug Aug -- 10 Aug 11 17 amp ' ch eduJe Juni or Jr 111 Paslor ( .ti .) C.tr lcs P.t \tor l ) .1\ C fv11r hncr f·.unil) P.isto, JJ1 t1c\ ~pcrr) Sr Ii i (Jh:11 11 An\os Jun1ur JI f I I Ju111u1 1-~11111) l·arnil, . l\ 1~lo r ' l't.~ t r ) I· rcni:h 1'.istot Br 1.111 I lanscn f'astor I)an )llllll\l>rls P.1stur Kt:, 111 Boggs J)r l\1ark J ,tL ~son )'l ease r eg1s1c1 t'~ll I) JI you wanl) uur group to be together . l{e 1 1s1e1111 g as a group 1s pieJerahle. l~cg1 strattun s ate d cepted b) date uf pus l rnar k unul 1naxi111un, ·apatll 1s rcachl!d . l{egi tra 11 ns 111ust be 1nadc hv 11uul '°" 1th the d~fh s ll l'lt-as do 11ot .. ' 1 t gi~trations . Camp Patmos Britta, Ingrid and Katja F or the e three gi rl s, riding the ferry LO Kelley · I ·land wa · the la ·t leg of a trip from Germany. The girl were Patmo · gue ts of Bob and Anne Madsen, who have attended fami ly camp at Patmo · for many year ·. The Madsens, wanting their Gern1an gue t to have at least a taste of camping at Patmos, expected to stay on the i. land j u t one night. However, the girl petitioned the Mad ens to tay "another night. " Then another, and another, until they ·tayed the who le week! The gi rl , wrote to the Madsen · after returning Lo thei r hon1e and sent greeti ngs to the youth group at North fi eld Baplis t. ·taling . "We arc Lhinking so often of the camp . Thal wa , pos itively the very best that we were allowed to cxpcr1encc in our lifeLime! THANK YOU for n1aking it poss ible for u · to be there." The Mad ·en · took their gue t to Cedar Poinl . ca World , Geauga Lake and Niagara Fall s, al o. Be fore leaving the United talcs they compared all they had done to their vi ·it 10 Patn1os and indicated that their tin1c at Patn1os was the hcs t. We be lieve you , too, will have a great ti ,nc at Patmos. Now is the tin1c to register. Y ou need a regi . tration forn1 enclosed in the Patmos brochure. all or write Lynn Rogers. 7854 N. Boyden Rd ., Sagan1orc H ii l~. OH 44067. 0 1 phone 2 I6-4 67-434 I . 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