Becky showing off her bling after getting in engaged to Justin at camp last summer.

“We’re engaged” were the words that broke the news on Facebook that Justin Wrentzel had asked Becky Jones to marry him last July.

While news of the engagement spread electronically, the engagement itself was as low tech as it gets.

Justin’s popping of the question didn’t come after a fancy dinner out on the town or a quiet evening in.

No, the moment both Becky and Justin will remember for decades to come came in a place where they’ve spent countless hours since they started dating: Delanco Camp.

Justin and Becky weren’t the first and they certainly won’t be the last to have a special romantic tie to the camp.

Camp President Laurie Rambo and her husband Dave met through camp and dozens of other couples over the years have traced their initial meeting to the sands of the New Jersey Pine Barrens at 191 Powell Place Road in Tabernacle.
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When the Winter Olympics start next week they’ll be thousands of people from all over the world converging on the Canadian city of Vancouver. But only one (that we know of) will be arriving with extensive Delanco Camp experience.

Carlton Bodine III, who cut his teeth as an audio engineer running the soundboard out at camp, is heading to Vancouver to join more than 40 other Asbury College students, staff and alums working on the Olympics broadcast team. Carlton’s call came at the last minute for an audio job at the downhill skiing, as he describes in his blog.

“So I was sitting in my room with my good friend Kenton watching a movie. All of the sudden my room phone rang, which is very rare since not many have room phones anymore. I decided to answer it to which I hear, ‘Hi Carlton, this is Jim Owens’ I instantly knew what he was calling for. He went on to say, ‘I have a job for you, can you be here by Sunday night.’ So I called my parents and booked my flight and now leave Sunday morning at 6 a.m. eastern time.”

For more on what Carlton and his classmates will be up to, there’s a story on the Asbury Website HERE.

To keep tabs on Carlton the month he is in western Canada, visit
carltonolympic.blogspot.com.

Carlton also has a group on Facebook.

CJ Caufield, our caretaker/coordinator, was seriously injured (head and back) when he fell on a patch of ice in late December. Please keep CJ, his wife Carrie and his family in your prayers.

Donation Information
Donations for the Caufield family and costs related to his absence at camp must be made payable to Delanco Camp Meeting. Please include an attached note designating your donation. In order for your donation to be tax deductible it may not note anywhere on the check itself that it is for the Caufields or the CJ fund. Please send your donation to Delanco Camp P.O. Box 597 Sicklerville NJ 08081.

To all those who may want to send CJ words of encouragement or a get well card while he is in rehab in Atlanta:

CJ Caufield
c/o Shepherd Center
2020 Peachtree Rd. ,NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-1465
bottom left corner of envelope: ABI-238

You can also e-mail CJ get well wishes to the Shepherd Center and they print them out and deliver them to him by clicking HERE.

Latest update:

Update XXIII (Feb. 11)

CJ’s recovery is going really well. He has his trach out and the casts are off. Check out the new picture Linda Dugan sent us. Praise God for how he’s healing CJ’s body. Keep praying for him as he goes through rehab at the Shepherd Center. Word has it it’s incredibly intense.

Update XXII (Feb. 3)

CJ has casts on both feet from his toes to his knees to stretch his muscles and ligaments. His feeding tube was removed yesterday and he has progressed to a regular diet. Hopefully the trach will be off in another week. He has long days of therapy but is doing amazingly well for what he has been through. Please keep the prayers coming. If you have a free minute send a word of encouragement via e-mail or a card in the mail (see info above).
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