Did you know that our vision of a camp for peacebuilding is becoming a reality?!
A small steering committee composed of members of Union Church and St. Clare Catholic Church has worked all winter and is ready to roll out The Berea Leadership Experience, a weeklong camp for kids ages 6-13 that is designed to help kids develop skills of transforming conflict into community.
We hope that by learning skills and building self confidence in a fun setting that kids will be able to better deal with bullying, cliques, and peer pressure in a positive way in their own lives and to help others to do so too. We’re using a curriculum created by Peace Village, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to helping kids learn to build peace through Mindfulness, Connecting with Nature, Media Literacy, and Conflict Resolution.
This camp was borne of a desire to honor Dr. Michelle Tooley’s commitment to peace and justice in education, and a need to help Bereans cross the bridges that divide us.
Here are the details:
Berea Leadership Experience will be July 24th-28th, 9am-3pm at the Berea Friends Meeting House. Kids ages 6-13 are invited to be campers, and teenagers older than 13 are invited to be Junior Counselors. The cost is very low: $75 per student, and up to half of the campers can receive scholarships of $50 to make it even more affordable.
Can you help make this dream a reality? Here are ways we could use your help!
- Do you know kids ages 6-13 who would like to come? Register them here: www.union-church.org/ble
- Do you have a van to help with transportation? We have some students in Richmond who would like to come but need a ride each day.
- Do you know any high school students who would be a good assistant group leader?
- Could you sponsor a kid through a donation? $10 pays for a t-shirt; $50 will pay for a scholarship; $100 pays for a Counselor; $200 pays for a teacher; $500 pays for the curriculum!
- Do you have sports and games equipment that could be borrowed for the week? (bats, balls, jump rope, hula hoops, etc)
If you can help, please contact the camp director, Kim Kobersmith kim.kobersmith@gmail.com.
Thanks for helping this dream come true!
Your BLE Steering Committee:
Jeff From, Kam Myers, Jenny Hobson, Rachel Small Stokes, and Kim Kobersmith
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