Sarah Herman – Happily Ever After (cover)

by Matt Ralph on Jan 16, 2012 in Friends, Music | 0 comments

Camp regular Sarah Herman covers He Is We’s song “Happily Ever After” in this video she posted to YouTube today. The original is HERE. We’re of course partial to Sarah’s version.

Becky Kralle Glee Audition

by Matt Ralph on Nov 2, 2011 in Friends | 0 comments

The Glee Project is an online audition website that gives hopeful Glee cast members a chance to audition for the popular high school TV show. That former camper, summer staffer and friend of the camp Becky Kralle would be a familiar face among the crowd auditioning comes as no surprise. She is, after all, the only camp alum (that we know of) to appear on Jeopardy.

Check out LaBec’s audition HERE and be sure to like her performance and share it with others.

Megan Daddario 1992-2011

by Matt Ralph on Jun 20, 2011 in Friends | 0 comments

A former camper and junior counselor at camp lost her battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and a congenital heart condition last week.

Megan Leslie Daddario, 19, attended Sharptown United Methodist Church and was a student at Eastern University when she got sick in January. She graduated from Cumberland Regional High School in 2010.

Cindy Sullivan Moore recalled her first meeting Megan at camp in a Facebook post:

“I met Megan when I first started working at Delanco Camp 8 years ago. She was a camper for 3 or 4 years and then helped out as a Jr. counselor. I had the privlege of hearing her give her testimony to the other campers a few years ago. What an insiration she was to everyone she met. She was a beautiful girl inside and out. We lost a wonderful person but heaven gained a beautiful angel.”

Want to share something with the camp community about Megan? Post it in the comments below.

A service to celebrate Megan’s life will be held Tuesday (June 21) at Sharptown UMC at 2 p.m.

The News of Cumberland County has an article about Megan HERE and The Daily Journal has an article HERE.

On the Ground in Tuscaloosa

by Matt Ralph on May 9, 2011 in Friends | 0 comments

Just last weekend, camp board member and longtime counselor extraordinaire Scott Lederer was enjoying himself as a staff member at the Spring Retreat.

Days later, he was on the ground in Tuscaloosa, Ala., seeing first-hand the devastation wrought by tornadoes that hit Alabama and surrounding regions in late April.

Scott blogged his visit to Tuscaloosa for the website Splashlife while he was there.

You can read all about his journey by clicking HERE.

Trying Something New

by Kevin Wolf on Mar 10, 2011 in Friends, Testimony | 1 comment

Many of you may be in a similar boat to me at this point. This is day two of Lent and I don’t have a specific sacrifice in mind for this season. So, I started thinking. What if, instead of giving up something for Lent, I started doing something for Lent, and ideally, beyond. Nothing big or time-consuming but something that I can put into my daily grind. Something that could be a good practice in the long haul. One thing that came to mind was putting a smile on the face of someone new each day. Walking around Asbury (and other places too), I see people not living in daily joy. I see people burdened by something, while I’m not sure what, they’re burdened and it’s easy to see.

Recently, I’ve been reading Fearless by Max Lucado, a good book with some good ideas behind it. We, as a people, have learned to fear fear. One of my fears is meeting new people. Once I get comfortable with someone, on a personal level, I tend to be more open with them in everyday interactions. If I don’t know someone, I tend to put up my walls and not interact with them. See Katey Bartie, she went from a complete stranger to a sister, from never talking to each other to confidant status in a mere 10-week stint during the 2006 summer.

You may think that you haven’t made a good choice for this Lenten season. Maybe what you’ve chosen is too easy or perhaps, you’re in over your head. (note: being in over your head isn’t necessarily a bad thing.) I challenge you to challenge yourself, to push your pre-conceived limits. Challenges are, indeed, a good thing. They make us better people, they refine us much like the way that “iron sharpens iron”, Proverbs 27:17.

I’m accepting my challenge, will you?

First Friday Prayer

by Laurie Rambo on Mar 2, 2011 in Friends, Past Events | 0 comments

Dear friends of the camp,
I would like to invite you to my house to share a meal and a time of prayer for the camp on Friday, March 4 (and the first Friday of each month).

Dinner will be served at approximately 6:30 p.m. with a time of prayer following at about 7:30 p.m. Please let me know if you can join us, and feel free to invite others who have a burden to pray for the camp.

Just let me know if you will be coming so that I can prepare adequately or for address and directions. (laurierambo@gmail.com)