Date and Time
Saturday Aug 23, 2014
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT
Location
60 Denton Lake Rd., Holmes, NY 12531
Directions to Holmes Camp: 60 Denton Lake Rd., Holmes, NY 12531
From the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge: East on I-84 to Exit 17 (Ludingtonville Road). Go North on Ludingtonville Rd. ¼ mile. Turn left onto Mooney Hill Rd. at the Presbyterian Camp sign. Go about ¾ mile, then take the left fork onto Denton Lake Rd. (See a Presbyterian Camp sign here). The camp office will about ¼ mile on the right.
Description
Mid-Hudson Residents will gather at Holmes Camp on Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 10 AM, located at The Presbyterian Camp & Conference Center, 60 Denton Rd, Holmes, NY 12531 to celebrate Rural & Migrant Ministry's 25th Anniversary of the Summer Overnight Camp. The Summer Leadership Overnight Camp is ''home'' to over one hundred children ages eight to eighteen, along with a professional and volunteer staff of forty – at the end of August every year. For twenty-five years rural and migrant children have gotten to know RMM and we have gotten to know them. The children have become a part of the RMM family. Each year close to half of the staff are former campers; many former campers come back to visit, and more and more the camp becomes a ''reunion week''. At first glance the camp seems like a typical camp, which is our goal. We want to offer a camp that would make anyone proud. So we have swimming, and outdoors activities, music, the arts, and trips. But the camp is much more. We enable the children to be children. Most come from difficult economic situations and face many barriers. They are forced to shoulder great burdens and the cost often is that they don't get to be children. This camp is first and foremost about having fun! The Camp is also about living in community, especially in the midst of diversity. Our campers and staff come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Often they arrive from situations of racial, gender and age divide. The Camp looks to explore how to honor diversity and live in the midst of it – seeking opportunity and strength from one another. An important component of the Camp is affirmation. Our campers are special! In a world where they often run into barriers and negative feedback, often rooted in racism, prejudice and adultism; our goal is to affirm and nurture. As we seek to nurture the self-esteem of the campers, we are also committed to nurturing leadership development. At the Camp, Campers are encouraged to dream, and in turn
