Summer is Coming!

Completed k-2nd Grade

Our youngest campers enjoy four daylong sessions (Monday–Thursday) filled with Bible study, crafts, swimming, nature, and games. Lunch and snacks are provided! Day Camp is perfect for Sunday School classes, play groups, or a VBS alternative, so bring a carpool full! Campers can also extend the fun with a Thursday overnight, joined by a parent, grandparent, or other camp-approved adult for dinner, activities, snack, Vespers, Morning Watch, and breakfast before heading home around 9:00 a.m. Overnight options are available for every Day Camp!

Completed 3rd–5th Grade
Ready to go exploring? Campers not quite ready for a full week of overnight camp can enjoy four days of adventure, Monday–Thursday! Activities include Bible study, crafts, swimming, nature, hiking, group games, and a cookout. Lunch and snacks are provided! Want even more camp fun? Add a Thursday overnight featuring supper, an all-camp activity, snack, and Vespers, followed by a full day of traditional camp activities on Friday. Pick-up is at 6:00 p.m. Friday!

Mini: Completed 1st-3rd Grade

Junior Mini: Completed 3rd–5th Grade

 Two nights and three days give campers a taste of overnight camp and all the fun Brethren Woods has to offer! Both camps feature traditional camp activities, with Junior Mini adding a cookout, canoeing, fishing, hiking, and cooperation games. Depending on the program, campers stay in our cozy retreat cabins or summer cabins with bunk beds and a nearby bathhouse. Junior Mini campers also enjoy most meals family-style in our dining hall.

Completed 3rd–5th Grade

Campers enjoy all that our traditional programming has to offer including cookouts, fishing, hiking, canoeing on the camp lake, an overnight campout option, and the low ropes cooperation course. Campers stay in our summer cabins and eat most meals family-style in our dining hall. 

Completed 5th-6th Grade

Ready for adventure? This is it! Campers completing 5th-6th grades stay in the first summer hogan area to enjoy traditional camp activities PLUS a tubing adventure down the Shenandoah River and an extended Low Ropes Course experience! 

Completed 6th-8th Grade

 Ready, aim, adventure! This two-night, three-day intensive camp is all about archery! Campers will build their skills, practice their aim, and discover the fun and challenge of archery while enjoying time at Brethren Woods. We’re also looking to partner with local businesses and organizations to offer a special archery-related field trip. It’s the perfect opportunity for aspiring archers to learn, grow, and hit the mark!

Completed 6th-8th Grade

 Create, explore, and celebrate the Creator! This two-night, three-day camp invites campers to explore their creativity through art, hands-on projects, and activities inspired by the wonder of God’s Creation. From discovering new ways to express themselves to finding inspiration in the natural world around them, campers will have plenty of opportunities to make something meaningful, try something new, and celebrate the creativity God has given each of us.

Completed 6th-8th Grade

In addition to our traditional program, special options for this camp include campers’ choice activities (archery, canoeing, cooking, crafts, nature, etc.), cookouts, campouts, the low and high ropes challenge course, and more!  In addition to their regular high ropes experience, campers will have the chance to climb all sides of the climbing tower and try out the climbing elements.  Jr. High Campers stay in our summer hogans. 

Completed 6th-8th Grade

Pioneer Adventure Camps feature extended time learning wilderness and outdoor living skills as a participant in the Pioneer Program. Pioneers enjoy many of camp’s traditional activities, including the low and high ropes challenge course, have the chance for an overnight hike, and experience one featured adventure (see below). Pioneer Adventure Campers stay in one of our summer hogan areas. 

• Canoeing
• Hiking
• Horseback Riding
• Climbing

Complete 8th-12th Grade

Pack your bags! This camp is hitting the road and heading to North Carolina for a week-long traveling adventure! Our camp’s group will meet up with other Church of the Brethren campers from Pennsylvania to Florida for a week of adventures at Camp Carmel! While in North Carolina, campers will enjoy a natural water slide, a mountain peak hike, and other outdoor adventures! 

Complete 8th-12th Grade

Ready for the next level?! This camp is for youth who are ready for a week of living and learning outdoors. Campers learn outdoor living and minimal impact camping skills as they cookout each meal, spend every night in tents or under the stars, and participate in overnight backpacking and canoe trips. Daily Bible studies, leadership development, low and high ropes challenge course experiences, swimming, and work on the Pioneer Program complete the week. 

Complete 8th-12th Grade

It’s a week of “choose your own adventure” for senior high youth! Campers enjoy daily Bible study and swimming. They also get to choose two off-site activities like caving, river tubing, rock-climbing, and canoeing or on-site opportunities to help lead nature, crafts, or Bible study. Evenings include the chance for fellowship through later nights, a coffee house, and a group overnight hike option. Campers sleep in our Walnut Creek cabins and eat most of their meals in the dining hall with a few cookouts.