I decided to continue the idea of having various campers shout words about the activity they were doing to show a wide variety of camp favorites. I asked my video interest group to try and think of their best camp memory and how they would want to capture that. After some brainstorming it was clear that each Read More >
I was so excited to have Emily in my interest group week 2 as she is one of the campers whose passion for photography as a means to display the beauty of camp inspired me to make it a possibility to use a camera for the entire week, instead of one interest group. I was Read More >
Pamela knew right away that she wanted to interview her fellow campers about why they come to camp. She thought this would be a good way to show other potential campers why everyone comes here and keeps coming back, what they value most about this place and love most about the activities, and how they Read More >
Although I’m still learning how to implement this new format and how to run my interest group, this past week resulted in some exciting creations. This short segment was completely camper inspired and nearly completely camper orchestrated and filmed. One of the girls in the group had the idea of having a single camper say a single Read More >
Our first Wet and Wild day of the summer unfortunately had to be postposed to the unnatural day of Thursday due to some dreary weather on Wednesday. Riley had expressed to me almost immediately upon our first meeting that he wanted to be responsible for covering the WWW festivities. Although the delay made it difficult for Read More >
Our camp shepherd for these first two week of camp is Roon. We are excited to have her back from last year along with her husband Bubba and their daughter Coco. She is very effective at communicating God’s truths and relating to the campers. I gave Jacob the mission of finding out what she had Read More >
This is one of the Chapters from the first week of camp. Max, one of my video interest group participants, immediately knew he wanted his segment to be about the staff here at BBC. So together we decided that he would interview counselors and every other position in-between to find out about their job, as Read More >
It’s Pepper here! For those of you who watched the BBSee clips that I created last summer, I am excited to say I have returned this summer as the full-time videographer. This year the video program looks a little different. I have had the privilege of implementing my vision for involving the campers in the DVD making process. Read More >
Kelsey is new to Bethany Birches but NOT new to being at a camp! Read on to find out more: I am so excited for camp to begin this summer! My name is Kelsey and I live in town called New Holland in Lancaster County, PA. I am a junior at Eastern University and am Read More >
After hearing from some of the returning counselors earlier this spring, I thought it’d be fun to introduce a few of the first time staff members joining us this summer: Amelia DiSabito is originally from Vermont but currently attends college in Florida. She found out about BBC through her brother James and friend Daniel “Dapper Read More >
