Specifically, we need people who will take one family of children from snack time, after evening service, to their room and stay with them until 11 p.m.—only on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings of Camp Meeting (June 28, 29 & 30.) If you can help with the bedtime routine while the moms enjoy their evening session, please contact me at laurierambo@gmail.com.

Our Delanco Camp toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause every time you search or shop online! Once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to the camp – at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals as well). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated.

Please hurry and do this now so that we can earn the $1 bonus per toolbar!

And, please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference for our cause!

If you don’t already own it, be sure to Goodshop your purchase on iTunes, Amazon or other fine online stores that sell CDs so that Delanco Camp can get a percentage of the sale.

If you don’t have the money right now to buy a copy, we’re also giving away a copy here on the blog. Enter your name and e-mail address below for a chance to win.

This giveaway has ended. Ally Caputa was the lucky winner. Stay tuned for more giveaways.

Contact the camp’s outreach team, and we can have someone come to speak at your church service/youth meeting or participate in your event with a display table, photo slideshow and promotional materials.

If you’re just looking for promotional material (brochures, postcards) to display in your church or youth group and you haven’t received any yet, you can also request those.

Just e-mail me (Mike Ralph) at mike.ralph@delanco.org.

After starting in this part-time position on July 1, 2009, and moving into the newly renovated Warchol House, I decided to work part-time for UPS as a driver’s helper to deliver packages. This work came to a hasty conclusion on Dec. 23, 2009, when I was caused to fall as a result of an ice patch during a delivery. Over the next several weeks, we battled life on a ventilator, a skull fracture, a coma, a gastric bleed, double pneumonia, ongoing fevers as high as 105, dehydration, a collapsed lung, a blood clot in my lower leg, a vertebrae fracture, and several other challenges. As a result, after 35 days at Jersey Shore Medical Center, I was flown via medical jet to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Ga., which is known for treating traumatic brain injuries and starting the rehabilitation process.

Along with close family and friends coming to substantial aid, the prayer networks and warriors kicked into high gear. Prayers were offered and answered for speedy healing and encouragement during which time I had seemingly insurmountable obstacles and dreams for the future. My discharge date is set for April 8, at which time we head back to camp. We will continue with outpatient rehabilitation upon our return home. The diligence of several therapists and doctors has paid off, but there is still much to do and lifelong deficits with which to deal.

We look forward to visiting with our friends! In order to keep these visits of the caliber that we would like and to ensure that we are home and available, please give a phone call. We don’t want wasted trips if they can be avoided.

There is still much to do at Delanco as well. Delanco Camp depends on your continued involvement and support of its ministries. Volunteers serve in a wide assortment of opportunities. If there are gifts and graces you have, please clarify and communicate them and we will do our best to get you plugged into the life of the camp. As a reminder, we also have an important and significant ongoing need for specialty contractors who can donate their time, knowledge, and ideas.

The bottom line is … Delanco Camp depends on you!

To make sure this information reaches our record-keeping, please e-mail cjcaufield@delanco.org or visit the Support Page on our Web site (see link at top of this page or click HERE).

We need you to continue and enhance your prayer efforts. At a time when things may seem less dire for this current state of affairs, I humbly request continued diligence in prayer activities during this transition. I look forward to this exceptionally invigorating era of life as I serve in this position. Please continue to pray for the ongoing ministry of this God-breathed creation of Delanco Camp.

Please pray for:

-Transition: during this shift back to camp

-Leadership: including administrative leaders, deans, staff, retreat leaders

-Volunteers: including general knowledge and specialized contractors

-Development: implementation of plans to reach our long-standing ministry goals

Much love and appreciation comes with this update. I look forward to ministering in your midst soon. Grace and peace,
CJ

Our Delanco Camp toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause every time you search or shop online! Once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,300 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to the camp – at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar provides coupons and deals as well!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated.

Please hurry and do this now so that we can earn the $1 bonus per toolbar!

And, please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference for our cause!

They’re up against some big names in both categories like Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Jars of Clay, Skillet and needtobreathe. A complete list of nominees can be found HERE.

Of course, win or lose they’ll still be our group of the year as they have been every year for so many summers we’ve lost count.

The 41st annual Dove Awards will be televised on the Gospel Music Channel Sunday, April 25, from 8 to 10 p.m.

Well, there’s a new way to show your love for Delanco, win some prizes and have some fun with camp friends.

Join the Delanco Camp Blog Crew.

What the heck is the Delanco Camp Blog Crew?
It’s a group of people who love Delanco Camp and want to share that love with others.

Who can join?
Anyone who was a camper or on staff at Delanco last summer or is planning on attending this summer.

What are the perks of joining this crew?
Free stuff, of course. Crew members get to enter exclusive contests for free Delanco Camp merchandise and other fun prizes.

How do I sign up?
E-mail Matt Ralph at matt.ralph@delanco.org or send us a message on Facebook or Twitter and tell us what your favorite camp meal is.

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.

Dr. Ronald Smith

An old friend is returning to camp this summer to preach the Word of God at a pulpit he’s preached from many times before.

He grew up in Millville, is the president of Wesley Biblical Seminary and holds degrees from Asbury College, Asbury Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary and  Drew Theological Seminary.

We know him, of course, as Ron Smith and are excited to have him with us for Camp Meeting June 27-July 3.

Here are a few more tidbits about Dr. Ronald Smith from his bio on the Francis Asbury Society Web site:

President Smith has been privileged to speak in a wide arena of denominational settings around the world. He has served as a keynote speaker in a variety of regional and national meetings for denominations and consortiums in the broader Wesleyan world.  Ron has also delivered several distinguished lecture series at different colleges, universities, and theological seminaries, such as the notedThomas F. Staley Distinguished Lecture Series.

Ron’s special burden is for students in higher education.  He and his family have hosted a weekly meeting for spiritual growth and study with college and seminary students for many years.

Ron has served on such boards as World Gospel Mission and the Francis Asbury Society and, for several years, served as Chairman of the Board of OMS International.

He has also written and taught professionally on subjects in the field of the History of Christian Doctrine.  His work has focused on Evangelicalism and Modernity; The Intellectual History of the Nineteenth Century; Forging the American Evangelical Tradition, Perfectionism and Pre-Millennialism; and, The Theological Lifework of Dr. Henry Clay Morrison.  He is currently working on a Pneumatology for the Francis Asbury Society’s Systematic Theology Project.

He has written articles for many denominational and missional publications, and has a special interest in producing substantive theological literature for the Church today.

Ron is married to Dorena (Ritzler) and together they have two daughters, Katie and Laura.