Church of the Brethren Family Camp
Family Camp '09 full Camper Schedule (supplied by Tiare)
Family Camp Schedule
All God’s Creatures, Great and Small
Generic Daily Schedule (individual day details follow)
Begin your day with self-guided “Sit Spots” (pick up instructions in dining hall) –please maintain the quiet past the dining hall toward campfire
8:00 Wakeup bell
8:30 Breakfast
10 – 12:00 Morning Sessions (see details following)
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Quiet time/Sit Spots (if you missed them in the morning)
Free time/swimming
3:30 – 5:30 Afternoon Offerings (see details following)
6:00 Dinner
7:20 Bow-drill fire building starts
8:00 Campfire
Snack
10:00 lights out
Friday is Beach Day, so there will be no morning or afternoon sessions.
Wednesday Sessions
10 – 12:00 Morning Sessions
Field biology with Tiare (Forest Dell): get to know banana slugs and newts, oh yeah!
Make a Joyful Noise with Micah and Elizaebeth (lodge):
Our Relationship to the Earth with Gayle (campfire circle)
3:30 – 5:30 Afternoon Offerings
Primitive Arts with Andrew of Trackers NW: fire building
Crafts with Gayle and Laura: paper craft and stamping
Henna with Krista and Mira: design your own lovely temporary “tattoo” for your body!
Walking tour of the new property acquisition and eco-forestry (upland wildlife habitat improvements and natural resources conservation service grant projects) with John
Self-guided Science Exploration: What can you learn from a skull (in Forest Dell)
9’ish: Nighttime nature awareness with Andrew of Trackers NW
Thursday
10 – 12:00 Morning Sessions
Field biology with Tiare (Forest Dell): Creatures of the Small Variety: aquatic insects and crawdads!
Make a Joyful Noise with Micah and Elizaebeth (lodge):
Our Relationship to the Earth with Gayle and Kerby (campfire circle)
Teen Nature Adventure with Andrew of Trackers NW
Primitive Arts with Andrew of Trackers NW
Henna with Krista and Mira: design your own lovely temporary “tattoo” for your body!
Water tour: join John and Allegra for a tour and discussion of the stream restoration projects, riparian ecology, and water systems
Self-guided Science Exploration: aquatic insects… know what is in the water before you swim… (in Forest Dell)
Friday: carpool to the beach!!!
Out all day at camp: Self-guided Science Exploration: lichens…not just werewolves (in Forest Dell)
9’ish or later: Star Party with Dave
Saturday
10 – 12:00 Morning Sessions
Field biology with Tiare (meet in the field): Creatures of the Great Variety: Trees and plants
Make a Joyful Noise with Micah and Elizaebeth (lodge):
The Creation of the Universe (through astronomy) with Dave (Forest Dell)
3:30 – 5:30 The Myrtlewood Olympics (for everybody)
Self-guided Science Exploration: How to be one fun guy: fungi (in Forest Dell)
9 Squaredance with Debbie
10’ish Star Party with Dave
Sunday
10:00 Worship Service – don’t miss Hal’s message: Walking Loose in a Wild Universe
Group hug…and we’re done!
You can download this schedule in .odt (Open Office) or .pdf format using the attachment links below.
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Family Camp
Camp hosts a great variety of groups, from home-schooled kids to weavers to youth work camps, to church groups, to men’s and women’s retreats to family reunions. Among these is a tradition that has grown from Camp Myrtlewood's birth:
Church of the Brethren Family Camp
Family Camp is a regular feature, usually held Tuesday through Sunday worship around the third week in July. Favorite activities have included intergenerational campfires with music-making and story-telling, hiking, swimming, folk dances, sports, art, and a salmon bake. It often includes a Beach Day on the Oregon Coast or other trips to nearby attractions.
Family Camp 2009 — Save the Date
Tuesday, July 21, to Sunday, July 26
Join us July 21-26, 2009 for this year’s family camp!!!
Our activities will focus around the theme All God’s Creatures Great and Small.
We will be exploring and caring for God’s Creation, great and small, through simple living, inter-generational nature study, eco-work projects, craft, song, story, and play.
Daily sessions will focus on field biology (do you know where a banana slug’s eyes are?), bible study and reflection, “singing school” (hey, maybe we’ll learn the parts for All God’s Creatures Got a Place in the Choir), and primitive skills (matchless fire making, tracking, making rope, etc.).
Don’t miss Friday and Saturday night’s star-gazing through a telescope the size of a human cannonball launcher, the return of Debbie Roberts callin’ square dancing, and the Myrtlewood Olympics!
Friday will find us at the beach, looking for tummy aches at the candy shop.
So mark your calendar for a chance to meet the new water saving toilets at camp — you’ll be glad you did!
Guided by the Sheller Family and unwitting recruits.
For camp program questions, please call Gayle or Hal Sheller at (503) 547-8412, or use the Brethren Family Camp program questions category on the Contact Form to contact Gayle and Hal along with Tiare and Nathan Sheller. For registration questions, please contact Dale Seese via the Brethren Family Camp Registration category on the Contact Form
Fees will be the same as last year:
- Adults and youth — $24 per day, $120 for the full camp.
- Children age 3 to 8 — half price
- Age 2 and under — Free
Scholarships are available.
No advance payment is requested.
Camp starts with dinner Tuesday evening, 7/21, and ends after lunch on Sunday, 7/26.
Step right up and get your registration sent in! Download the 2009 Registration Form (either the Word doc, the .rtf file, or the PDF, under the Attachment label below), fill it out, and send it in to our Registrar, Dale Seese, by snail or email (see details on form).
We are likely to develop an online registration form for Family Camp, partly depending on the results of the poll. Please vote your preference!
We look forward to seeing you at camp!
Dale Seese, Family Camp registrar — call (541) 747-4896 or use the Brethren Family Camp Registration category on the Contact Form
Choose your preferred Registration Form file format from the three choices below (we're trying to make sure we have a version that will work for anyone — please add your comment if you need clarification):
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| MyrtlewoodRegistrationForm2009c.doc | 34.5 KB |
| MyrtlewoodRegistrationForm2009c.pdf | 13.2 KB |
| MyrtlewoodRegistrationForm2009c.rtf | 16.36 KB |
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Camp Myrtlewood Managers:
Margaret &
John Jones
(541) 572-5307
Our address:
49658 Myrtle Creek Road,
Myrtle Point, Oregon 97458
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Comments
Advance event registration
On-line registration for Family Camp is probably not feasible given the complex rate structure. But it does seem possible to do this for the Women's Retreat and the Men's Retreat. We could just do a simple registration for the event so that we know who is coming, how many to house and feed, etc. Or we might actually be able to calculate the fees and take payment on-line. Wouldn't this simplify things somewhat for the organizers and hosts?
Online registration, payment at camp
I agree that online registration with payment for Family Camp is very problematic because of the rate structure. But it does seem doable that we could have an online form to collect the information but not calculate the actual dollar amount (maybe an estimate with major caveats?). The registrar would receive this info and would have the option of emailing a dollar quote or just waiting until the registration can be settled up face-to-face at Family Camp. My impression from Dale is that just getting the information early would be quite helpful, and to my mind an online form could be rather more user-friendly that the paper form. For anyone who is going to be on the website in the first place, that is.
David, your friendly local webmaster
Registration for Family Camp
I completed the registration provided on this site for myself, Eve Watson, and 3 of my grandchildren: Serena, Dylan, and Remy. I am not sure that it have been sent to you. Please let me know. If necessary, I will print a copy--I have saved it to my documents--and snail mail it to you with my check. Please let me know what I should do as we want to attend the family camp.
Thank you, Eve Watson, evening_7up [at] yahoo [dot] com
Sending in your registration form
After you download the registration form (in either .doc, .rtf, or .pdf format, whichever you prefer), if you fill it out and save it on your computer, you can then just attach it to an email and send it to our registrar at registration [at] campmyrtlewood [dot] org.
If you need to print it out and fill it in by hand, you can snail mail it to the registrar at the address provided on the form. If you have a scanner, you could scan it (just the first page), and email the scanned file to the registrar. There is no need to pay in advance; we actually prefer that you pay by cash or check when you get to camp (sorry, we can't process credit or debit cards yet).
David, your friendly local webmaster