Bidding on artwork, T-shirts, jewelry, bracelets, and other items,
the youth and staff at this year’s senior high camp at Camp Emmaus in
Mount Morris, Ill., raised more than $1,000 for camper scholarships.
An auction has become an annual tradition at the camp, starting about
seven years ago. Proceeds each year go to aid a different charitable
cause. Past beneficiaries have included a Honduras workcamp led by Camp
Emmaus manager Bill Hare, a camper undergoing cancer treatments, and the
Church of the Brethren’s Global Food Crisis Fund. Campers and
counselors donate the sale items.
Items ranged from the traditional, such as Camp Emmaus T-shirts, to
the imaginative, such as a soda can holder featuring an image of Hare
riding a dinosaur. Campers and counselors created many of the items,
including framed photographs, paintings, hand-knit scarves, and a
duct-tape wallet. Bidding was spurred on by incentives for reaching
various levels: the director being thrown in the pool, a counselor
wearing a bright pink shirt for the day, and another counselor’s
mustache being colorfully dyed.
Hare said he was impressed by the campers’ generosity, which will
provide scholarships to attend camp for children and youth who could
otherwise not afford to do so.
About three dozen youth attended this year’s senior high camp during
the last full week of July, one of six age-group camps offered by Emmaus
this past summer. The camp also holds family camps over Memorial Day
and Labor Day weekends, a women’s camp, and other events. It is one of
29 Church of the Brethren-affiliated camps located across the US. For
more information go to www.campemmaus.org.
-- Walt Wiltschek is campus minister at Manchester University in North Manchester, Ind.
Source: 8/23/2013 Newsline
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