Please take this opportunity to invite your congregation to explore our diocesan camp. Camp Stevens emphasizes leadership development and creativity in a safe and loving Christian environment. Ideas for Camp Stevens Sunday: Sing camp songs from the Camp Stevens Songbook Invite a member of your congregation who has experienced Camp Stevens to give a brief […]
For detailed information about the event, please click here.
I first went to overnight camp with my Girl Scout troop and several others when I was 6. During that week we practiced building campfires, wandered in the woods, hiked down stream-beds, and learned songs that still resonate, like “Make new friends, but keep the old – one is silver and the other gold.” I […]
In March I had the awesome opportunity to work with the 10th grade class of San Diego’s Waldorf School, and I helped facilitate their SEEDS program. We worked on several garden projects, including planting fruit trees on a hillside (by the cob chicken coop) to help prevent soil erosion. Shortly after the class planted them, […]
Wilderness represents to many an untamed world beyond our reach. To others, it is a mysterious and scary state of being. Dr. Brené Brown, author and vulnerability researcher, found that while people describe their own wilderness as being uncontrolled and vast they also find it to be “a place of true belonging, and the bravest […]
Please send funds directly to Camp Stevens either via donation on their website (select Refugee Campership in the dropdown menu) or via check made out to “Camp Stevens” with “Refugee Campership” in the memo line and mailed to: 1108 Banner Road, Julian, CA 92036. For the last eleven years, children from refugee families in San […]
[This post first appeared here.] Camp Stevens, the Diocese of San Diego’s longtime camp and conference center shared with the Diocese of Los Angeles, has named the camp’s former operations director, Kathy Wilder, as interim executive director. Wilder’s appointment was approved by Camp Stevens board of advisors in consultation with Bishops John H. Taylor and […]
What do Faith and Harry Potter have to do with one another? This Epiphany, young, aspiring wizards are invited to Light the Wand of Faith at Camp Stevens. Learn to fly a broomstick and play quidditch, earn points for your house, take herbology and potions lessons, make new friends, and do all of these things to grow deeper […]
Come celebrate the grand opening of the Bergstrom Lodge at Camp Stevens in Julian.
Last fall, I ran my first marathon. 5 months prior to that, I was having a tough day and thought, “Well, I guess I should sign up for a marathon.” I can’t explain why I thought that was the next step. I have been practicing trusting my instincts and staying curious in my life, which […]
