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Director’s Update and Announcements
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Greetings friends! This year’s newsletter includes voices from parents, volunteers and staff. Our goal in sharing from their experiences is to help you connect with what happens at camp. The Soil and Seed Project One of those voices is past staffer Greg “Elvis” Yoder who brought the Soil and the Seed Project to my attention.…
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Cheeks is Pregnant!
Yes, it’s true. Her due date is June 26. We’re posting here to make sure the whole Bethany Birches family knows this exciting news. This will be our (Tuna and Cheeks) first child. We were so busy with camp for many years that we didn’t consider children. One day, Cheeks turns to me (Tuna) and…
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Career! The intersection of faith and work. Tuna and Cheeks share with Christopher Dock High School Students
A number of weeks ago I got an email from John Stoltzfus, the campus pastor at Christopher Dock Mennonite High School. He wanted to know if Cheeks or I or both would be willing to come share about the intersection of faith and career in our lives. I thought about it for a day and…
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International Flare
My camp name is “G” from Goliath. I am from Indonesia and I came to US with MCC (Mennonite Central Committee) in the International Volunteer Exchange Program (IVEP) in September 2012. BBC was my second placement during a year with MCC. Working at BBC was so meaningful to me because I worked in nature a…
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Let your teen (17 year old) do whatever they want
In his blog post, Jonathan McKee explains an experiment he and his wife performed on their teenager. He writes: Our theory was basically this: Start strict, and loosen up as our kids get older, eventually freeing them from all boundaries by age 17½. Guess how it went… not bad! In fact, it allowed their daughter to…
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Living with Cheeks is a gift! Spiritual Saturday
Many of you know Cheeks. She’s been the Program Director at Bethany Birches for many years (this will be her 9th summer). She also happens to be my wife. We got married after working here at camp together for a few years. To me, Cheeks has been a gift from God. Let me explain: Many…
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Tuna Tuesday: Life to the full
I was writing in my journal this morning after reading a booked called Enjoy the Silence. Great book. Geared toward teens but relevant to adults. In my reflection, I was thinking about the fact that last summer was our second most attended summer ever. And that high attendance came after a spring of virtually no…
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Les Miserables & Camp: Tuna Tuesday
So Cheeks and I watched Les Miserables on video the other night. It’s a classic story and the most recent version done on video is very good. As I was watching the scene when Javert decides to drown himself, I realized one of many reasons to learn to love our enemies – so we don’t…
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Mt. Washington & The Life of Faith: Tuna Tuesday
So yesterday I hiked up the back side of Mt. Washington with some friends. We wanted to get some late season skiing in! I have a cool GPS map but there’s an error with the file. If you could see the map you’d notice that we were all over the place! After hiking up, we…
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Boating on the ice!
We didn’t take the dock out until nearly thanksgiving! Here’s how that went:
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