News Briefs: Pastor organizes Camp LOVE
 STEPHEN MILLER Teens protect themselves from dust while repairing homes. |
As a founder of the popular Camp JOY that has been refurbishing homes in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., for 16 years, and as a teenager at Camp HOPE, he?d thought maybe his new church area would have similar needs. Driving the back roads of the county, he soon found he was right.
By early July, he?d organized Camp LOVE (which stands for Loving Others Victoriously Everyday) and signed up 40 teenagers from Lakeside and La Plata UMCs and Christ UMC in Salisbury.
The teens camped in tents in the woods next to Lakeside, used the Westlake High School for showers, and got up at 6 a.m. each day to fix and repair seven homes in the county. Several UM churches provided meals for the campers, and a Lakeside member covered the costs of a Christian music group to perform closing night.
Camp LOVE is designed to give youth a view of a world they don?t inhabit. 'Not everyone goes home to a nice bed, air conditioner, Gameboys.
This gives them (the youth) an interesting perspective,' McDonald said.
-Across the Conference is compiled
and written by Linda Worthington
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