A little corner of God's creation

On a cold blustery Saturday in February, 11 members of Providence Forge Presbyterian Church spent the day helping to take care of a little corner of God's creation, Camp Hanover. Many willing hands cleared the site for a new longhouse to be built this spring, cut up and hauled off many branches and logs left over from the hurricane last August, cut a stack of logs into splitable sizes, and downed several potentially dangerous dying trees. Session member, Jane VanDyke, provided a delicious lunch meal to keep the energy level high. All together the group provided over 60 hours of volunteer service to Camp Hanover. We thank God for a safe and productive day filled with good-natured ribbing, lots of laughter, and much hard work.

Let the camp office know if you and your group would like to volunteer time to the glory of God at Camp Hanover.

Announcing the 2012 Summer Camp Director

Camp Hanover is pleased to announce the hiring of its 2012 Summer Camp Director, Marly Spence! Marly is a long-time camper, pathfinder, counselor, and staff of Camp Hanover. For the past 3 years she has served as its Traveling Day Camp Director and Hospitality Coordinator. Marly brings a wealth of experience, passion, creativity, good humor, and faith to this position. She shares, “God has used this place in a big way to form my faith over the years. I look forward to supporting this summer’s staff as they continue to carry out God’s mission in this place.” Keep her in your prayers as she works, dreams, prays, and prepares for Camp Hanover’s 56th summer of building Christian community.

Fall 2011 Newsletter

The Fall 2011 Newsletter is now available for download:  Fall 11 Newsletter (1.09 MB).

Executive Director position at Camp Hanover

See the position description for the new Executive Director position at Camp Hanover.

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A Day of Service at Camp Hanover

Recently 17 members of Three Chopt Presbyterian Church spent the day at Camp Hanover "adopting" Knoxwood Lodge as their project. Adopting a building at Camp Hanover involves donating at least $500 toward the upkeep of the building and offering at least 50 hours of service. What a joy it was to have such a joyful and hard working crew swarm over Knoxwood, giving well over the requested 50 hours of labor. At the end of the day this group of volunteers had "wrapped" both porches in plastic to create a more energy efficient building for the winter; rewired, painted and rehung 12 fifty year old light fixtures; wired and hung two new ceiling fans on one porch (they've committed to returning and hanging two more fans on the other porch); painted two entire exterior walls of the lodge; and after all that work still left things clean and swept.

Footsteps in Service. July 17-23. Reflections by Rev. Greg Wood

Any week of camp starts off with a few doubts and fears: Who will be in my group? What will we do? What if…?  “Footsteps in Service” adds another layer: What if I can’t do what they ask me to do? What if I don’t like doing this?  What if we have to spend the whole week digging ditches for drain tile?

In spite of the fears, we set off for a week of service in Pulaski, Virginia.

Pulaski is a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia that in April 2011 took a direct tornado hit.  Nearly half the homes suffered damage, over half of these had significant damage.   This summer, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, the Town of Pulaski, 2 Presbyteries, and a number of different churches joined together to repair a home at 301 State Street.  Before repair even started on the tornado damage, there was an electrical fire and the house was condemned.

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