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!

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.

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.

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:

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.

You can read the article HERE.

Don’t forget to check out Carlton’s blog at http://carltonolympic.blogspot.com/

Go Carlton!

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Our friend Rebecca Cicione has a wonderful article she wrote on Tenth Avenue North up on her blog. While giving the band its due, she also gave us props:

They went for years as an indie band, traveling to play small places like Delanco Camp– a summer camp where the kids can almost claim Tenth Ave as their own, due to the many concerts
they’ve had the pleasure of hosting and attending for many years.

Read the rest of the article and several other band articles and interviews at Rebecca’s blog: http://rebeccacicione.wordpress.com.

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This blog was mentioned in an article in New Jersey’s paper of record today, the Newark Star-Ledger. The front-page article, written by Cullen Nutt, was about technology at summer camp. Our camp president, Laurie Rambo, was quoted talking about the camp’s no-cell phone policy. One of our Twitter updates was also quoted directly in the article.

Check it out HERE.

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Our friend Nichole Marie Iocona was caught doing something good this week by the Courier-Post.

Who knew plastic bottle caps could make such a difference?

Click HERE for the article.