...and we'll be hosting another camp in summer 2008!

Read all about it in reports from Reese Rickards.
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Monday, August 13

Wednesday, August 15

Thursday, August 16

Saturday, August 18

The dictionary defines agape (pronounced AH-gah-pay) as a Greek word meaning love feast, and goes on to say it is “a gathering … to show someone affectionate honor.”
     By the end of a week in camp, the Diocese of Easton’s Prison Ministry team of volunteers hopes and prays that twelve children, ages 8 to 11, will return home knowing they have been shown affectionate honor. They are likely to need feelings of worth because all of them are youngsters with at least one parent serving prison time.
     The statistics are alarming. A child with one incarcerated parent has a 70% likelihood of going to jail later in life; a boy or girl with both parents in prison has a 90% chance.
     The volunteers whose picture is shown here and others not present when the photo was taken will be on hand Sunday afternoon, August 12, as the kids begin arriving at Camp Mardela, near Denton, a facility leased by the diocese from the Church of the Brethren. Over the next several days the kids, about five boys and fifteen girls from the Eastern Shore, will swim, hike, learn archery, engage in crafts, sing songs, have fun, build a community, and on Saturday, August 18, head home having been shown much affectionate honor.

 
 

Volunteers for Camp Agape include, from left: Reese Rickards (St. Alban’s, Salisbury), Eddie Vance (Christ Church, Denton), David Dingwall (St. Paul’s by-the-Sea, Ocean City), Chuck Walthall (All Faith Chapel, Tunis Mills), Kristen Polk (New Light Christian Center, Princess Anne), Mary Getsinger (St. Paul’s, Trappe), Frieda Malcolm (St. Alban’s, Salisbury), Allen LaMontagne (St. Paul’s-Kent, Chestertown), Jean Rickards (St. Alban’s, Salisbury), Dianne Gardner (St. Paul’s by-the-Sea, Ocean City), Lynn Anstatt (Christ Church, Easton), Edith Foley (St. Paul’s-Kent, Chestertown), Penny Morrow (St. Paul’s by-the-Sea, Ocean City), Brenda and Ian Dingwall (St. Alban’s, Salisbury), Nathaniel Hancock (Tyaskin), Kaye Dutrow (Christ Church, Easton), Marjorie Sullivan (St. Alban’s, Salisbury), Damion Drummond (St. James, Westover).