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BYM Camps - Opequon Quaker Camp

Operated by:

Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Established:

1998

Office Location:

Baltimore Yearly Meeting

17100 Quaker Lane

Sandy Spring, MD 20860

Camp Location:

2710 Brucetown Rd.

Clear Brook, VA 22624

Phone#:

Office:  301-774-7663    ~   Summer:  540-678-4900

Coed: X

Girls only: 

Boys only:  

Capacity:

55

Ages:

9-14

Session Dates:

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Fees:

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Directors/Contact:

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Camp Homepage:

http://www.bym-rsf.org/camping

Contact E-mail:

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Program
Description:

 Opequon Quaker Camp, is located just north of Winchester, Virginia. Campers live in screened cabins and share meals in the pavilion in the center of camp. The day includes all-camp activities, art projects, games in the playing field, swimming in the pool, and exploring in the creek. Campers spend time away from camp on an overnight camping trip each week.  Arts activities might include digging Opequon Creek clay to create original pieces for firing; carpentry projects such as building tree houses and tipis; painting life size murals; weaving fiber and words; and workshops in theatre, dance and music.

Other activities include cooperative games, exploring in the woods, singing and working together, performances, time to play musical instruments, making sailboats for the creek, fire circle, and tons of other cool things like batik, volleyball, puppet making, star gazing, candle making, and tubing on the creek.

Rooted in nature and celebrating our connections to the earth and to one another, we nurture the divine within and around us. We experience community through fun and through working together. Everyone at camp begins the day in worship at the fire circle.  All meals include a vegetarian and vegan alternative.

Baltimore Yearly Meeting's camping programs provide opportunities for spending extended time living in functioning Quaker communities that encourage tenderness, loving concern, dynamic activity, laughter, respect, work, honesty, silence, and joyful noise.

Our goal is to foster the kind of self-esteem that facilitates spiritual growth. Opportunities for such growth are created in the process of supporting campers through challenging experiences. Success in negotiating rapids or exploring artistic creativity offers a deeper strength from which to accept the challenge and risk of turning inward toward the Light. Typically, a camper goes home a more competent, confident person whose spiritual roots have deepened and whose ties to the broader Quaker community have strengthened.