Meet the Summer Staff 2019 – Part 2

I was born and raised in the Rockaways of Queens, NY. Majority of my summers were spent at Camp Vacamas in West Milford, NJ where I was a camper, counselor, and supervisor. There I was able to appreciate diversity having making friends with people from all different...

7 Lessons from Summer Camp

It’s been over twenty years since I last assumed the pseudonym of “Frostbite” for three months in the piney woods of East Texas. From 1991 through 1993, I summered at Pine Cove Ranch, a Christian camp for (at the time) 6th-through-12th graders near Tyler. Every...

Taking Risks

During the summer, we had the opportunity to take lots of risks. As I learnt throughout the summer, taking these risks nearly always led to growth in either one’s faith, personal development or friendship with another counselor or camper. This was proven throughout my...

A Realization of Reality

My adventure started when pondering about my dreams and where I wanted to go in life. I secretly went off to a camp recruitment fair and got my job at Camp DeWolfe. (I pulled out of Camp interviews last year after loosing my Mum to cancer in late 2012 and didn’t feel...

God Delivers

I have been to America many times in my relatively short life (eight in total if you include lay-overs), but this trip would be markedly different to my other visits to the land of Uncle Sam. For one, it would be the first time that I would be traveling alone...