Top Shot winner has ‘bigger perspective’
A director of a Christian summer camp in Texas was revealed as the top marksmen in the season three finale of History Channel reality show Top Shot last night, an honor that includes a $100,000 grand prize.
As cool as that is – and we congratulate Dustin Ellermann for the sharp shooting – it’s been an incredible blessing to see how this colleague in Christian camping and brother in Christ has handled the attention.
Ellermann isn’t planning on leaving his day job as director of Camp His Way any time soon or let the fame go to his head. In fact, the money he earned from the show is going to pay off the camp’s new chapel, expand the camp so it can reach more kids and help pay for a bigger place for he and his wife to live so they can take in more foster children.
He has this to say when asked about the accomplishment in an article on his local news station’s website:
“Some of the guys say this is the biggest accomplishment in their life, but I kind of have a bigger perspective on that and I try to look at how God sees stuff and this is just a manmade accomplishment thing and God helped me through it, but honestly it’s my kids and passing on good things to them and the kids that we minister to here at the camp, that’s what really matters in life because that’s what goes on after I’m dead and gone.”
Praise God!
Rich Dugan On Local News In Kentucky
In the interim between the semester ending and starting his summer staff job at camp, Rich Dugan is down in western Kentucky this week with a team of people from Lancaster Bible College assisting the United Methodist Church Disaster Recovery Team in McCracken County.
Dugan and his team left from Lancaster on Friday to make the 800-mile trek. Their motivation: to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
“The motivation was simply a quick conversation with a friend and the realization that we really are the body of christ and needed to put our faith into action,” Rich wrote to me in an e-mail before leaving last week. “God worked in us quickly.”
As evidenced in the above video and the accompanying article, Rich and company are being used in a mighty way.
For more information on the team, visit their Facebook prayer page HERE.
CJ In the News
Photo by David Gard, Press of Atlantic City
The Press of Atlantic City had a wonderful article in today’s paper about our camp coordinator CJ Caufield spending time with his family on the year anniversary of his accident.
Click HERE to read the article.
Delanco Camp on the airwaves
Rich Dugan spent the day today hanging out at Jesus Fest 2010 in Manahawkin representing the camp with a table display and he was interviewed by WYRS FM 90.7, a local Christian radio station.
As always, he represented the camp well.
If you have an event at your church, youth group or community organization where we can set up a table, e-mail Mike Ralph at mike.ralph@delanco.org.
If you missed it when it aired, click on the blue play button below to listen:
A continual YES
Stephanie (Ruff) Hogan has an article where she talks about her experiences growing up at Delanco Camp in the latest issue of The High Calling, the magazine of the Francis Asbury Society.
There are also some pretty sweet old school pictures with the article, which you can read HERE.
When you’re finished reading Steph’s article, you can check out the rest of the Winter 2010 issue HERE.
Carlton in Today’s Sunbeam
The Today’s Sunbeam of Salem County has a feature article about Carlton Bodine III’s Olympic adventure in Whistler.
You can read the article HERE.
Don’t forget to check out Carlton’s blog at http://carltonolympic.blogspot.com/
Go Carlton!
Welcome to the blog for Delanco Camp, an inter-denominational Christian camp in Tabernacle, N.J. If you have questions, would like to contribute, advertise or want to share a story, memory, old photos or testimony of your time at camp, contact Blog Editor Matt Ralph at matt.ralph@delanco.org. Upcoming Events
Your purchases using this link support Delanco Camp
Top Commenters - February
