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SUMMERFEST MAY 19, 2012

Summerfest is a day full of fun, activities, food and an amazing opportunity to join the Auction and meet artisans from around PA.

Our Arts & Crafts show is one of the best quality in Pennsylvania.  Visitors will be able to see and purchase a diverse selection of quality handcrafted traditional and contemporary work created by craftsmen who are nationally and internationally known.

All proceedes benefit camper scholarships, which is a vital part of Men-O-Lan’s mission.  Our goal is to see no family left out due to finances.  A week of camp changes lives & with your support will continue to change lives as Men-O-Lan has done for over 70 years!

Can you help?  The areas we need help are-

Donate to the Auction.  (more information click here)

Become a Sponsor. (more information click here)

Participate in the Arts Show (more information click here)

Volunteer (more information click here)

Donate

Thank you in advance.  Your help is more appreciated than you will ever know.

It is our deepest pleasure to hold such a dynamic event to support our families.  Mark your calendars now.

Come and join us.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Blessings!

Kelli Smith

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‘ men-o-lan is yours to enjoy.’

Welcome to Men-O-Lan Camp and Retreat Center!

We offer a wide variety of activities as well as year around accommodations!

We are excited to have you here!

ALL TOURS ARE GIVEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.  PLEASE CALL MONICA BAUMAN AT 215-679-5144.  Thank you!

Landis Hall

Self-contained building for lodging and meeting, 24′ x 40′ meeting area with circular fireplace, two dormitory rooms with bunk beds, restrooms and shower facilities, equipped kitchen where groups may prepare their own meals (see Food Services).

Lodging maximum: 52

East and West Campus Cabins

Six winterized one-room cabins each sleep 16 in bunk beds. Five additional classic screen-sided cabins for warm weather use. Restrooms and showers in separate buildings.

Missionary Cottages (Semi-Private Rooms) Cabin duplex with shared bath, queen-sized bed in each. Bedding and towels provided.

Meeting Areas

Auditorium –  35′ x 50′ meeting space with a stage and stone fireplace.

Wilhelmina –  15′ x 30′ room.

Dining Hall –  32′ x 45′ dining room with stone fireplace. Groups of less than 50 who rent the Dining Hall to prepare their meals also use this area for their meetings . Food Service is also provided upon request. (ask about our rates.)

Recreation Facilities
Recreational facilities include outdoor lighted sand volleyball and basketball courts, obstacle course, ball fields, nature trails, “rock hop” trail, campfire sites, playgrounds, swimming pool. Fishing, paddle boats and canoes on a two-acre lake. High and low ropes challenge courses, zip line, climbing and rappelling tower, and water slide are available by reservation for an additional fee per person, which includes an experienced Men-O-Lan staff supervisor.

VISIT OUR PHOTO GALLERY TO SEE OUR RENOWNED FACILITIES.

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Reservation Procedures

What to Bring For Your Retreat

All monies benefit Men-O-Lan and Programs to reach generations for the Kingdom.

Questions?  Or to Schedule your Group:   Contact us. We look forward to helping you schedule your event.

ALL TOURS ARE GIVEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.  PLEASE CALL MONICA BAUMAN AT 215-679-5144.  Thank you!

Directions to Men-O-Lan

Summer Staff

Men-O-Lan’s summer staff consists of dedicated young men and women desiring to serve Christ in a Christian Camp environment.

Great effort goes into the hiring and training of camp counselors who are capable, attentive, fun, and creative.  Camp Staff is certified in First Aid and CPR, and all have completed extensive background checks and completed an intense screening and interview process.

Summer Staff Requirements:  Commitment to Christ.

 All applicants for counselor positions must be at least 18 years old before the start of camp.  Lifeguards, kitchen help, and junior day camp counselors must be at least 16 years old at the start of camp.  Overnight camp applicants must commit to all five weeks of camp.

Questions?  Contact the office.

DAY CAMP ONLINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE!

Log into Camper Account

OVERNIGHT FORMS

All the forms and information you will need are in the link below.

OverNight Camp Forms (Combined)

DAY CAMP FORMS

All the forms you will need for Day Camp are in the link below.

Day Camp Forms (Combined)

SUMMER CAMP

2012

THE HUNT OF A LIFE TIME!

OVER NIGHT CAMP ONLINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE!

DAY CAMP ONLINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE!

Log into Camper Account

Summer camps provide a place kids can discover God’s creation in a natural setting. A dedicated and trained staff, Inspirational speakers, awesome Bible studies, varied games and activities offer opportunities for new life long friendships and genuine spiritual growth.

OVERNIGHT CAMP-  This year overnight campers will pick one special Discovery Skill Group. This is an exciting change to our overnight schedule that enables you to customize your child’s experience. Each day, campers will spend a couple of hours in guided exploration of one particular activity.

Cost for Overnight Camp is $329 per camper/week.  Cost for Day Camp is $195 per camper/week.

WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BLAST-

Men-O-Lan’s  Mission is to “provide participants with a safe, quality experience which awakens new interests, promotes new skills, creates cultural awareness, and forges new freindships.”

Great effort goes into the hiring and training of camp counselors who are capable, attentive, fun, and creative.  ALL Camp staff is certified in First Aid and CPR, and all have completed extensive background checks and completed intense screening and interview process.

OVER NIGHT CAMP ONLINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE!

DAY CAMP ONLINE REGISTRATION CLICK HERE!

Log into Camper Account

Here are a few-

play, hike, climb, swim, canoe, water slippy slide, rock  hop, paddle boat, outdoor/indoor cooking, obstacle course, arts and crafts, rock wall, giant swing, volley ball, fishing, games, recreation  games, disk golf, low ropes, geo cacheing, bon fires. target sports, agricultural, outdoor camping, the amazing men-o-race ( all camp adventure race), intramural sports,  MORE   AND    MORE    AND    MORE.

MEN-O-LAN offers so many activities, it is hard to know where to start.

Some of our ‘SPECIAL’ activities include-

Screen on the Green- Grab your pillow &

blanket, we’ll pop some corn and watch a movie under the stars.

The AMAZING Men-O-Race- Are you ready?  We will swim, canoe, bike, and eat our way to the finish line.

Jingle Mingle- Christmas in SUMMER?  YEP!

Skate Park- Are you a skater?  Have you ever wanted to learn? We have IMPROVED our skate park…Come learn a new trick, or two, or three.

Farm- Love animals? Goats, ducks, chickens, and gardens… You will love discovering

agriculture in a new way.

Evening Activities- Clash and goofy night, skits, pool parties, cookouts, games, and more. Every camper will have the opportunity to cook a meal over an open fire and sleep under the stars (weather permitting). Each FUN day ends with a traditional camp fire.

‘Its not that God speaks louder in the woods.  Its just that we can listen better.’

As a kid, it was two chairs and a blanket.  Now, my tent is much different and not as easy.  The desired effect is, however, the same. To step away from schedules, TV and a Blackberry, to name a few.  Simply put, it’s the desire to slow down.  To breathe.  To meet God in a brand new way.

Although I am new to Men-O-Lan in Spring of ’08 the story here remains the same.

For nearly seventy years, Men-O-Lan has been the counter weight in the rush of our culture, to slow us down and see God.  Some for the first time, others for the first time in a long time.

With the changes and challenges of our world, Men-O-Lan remains committed to reaching our world for Christ by providing a retreat much different than the lifestyles we run around in. And we do so with purpose and mission.  Committed to laboring with the Church, Camp integrates with our local community to be an effective tool for evangelism and spiritual growth, initiates spiritual renewal for those who have never sought God and for those seeking to know Him more, and inspires young minds with purpose and tools to be leaders in our world.

Behind the new website & logo, buildings, programs and our beautiful property, lies our commitment to effectively reach our world for Christ.  We’ve watched God graciously work here at Camp for nearly seventy years, and we’re convinced that getting away to Men-O-Lan really does work!

Because of Him,

Our philosophy is to create an atmosphere that is fun, supportive, and challenging. We want to allow a person to experience perceived risks with group support and remain within a controlled, safe environment. Our highly trained staff will work with you to design a program that fits the needs of your group.

climbing tower

Challenge yourself. Climb to the top of a 30-foot tower.  Hand and foot holds are carefully placed on three different routes to provide varying levels of difficulty. You will be well secured by professional belay equipment. After reaching the top your group may choose to rappel down the other side of the 30-foot tower!

high elements

The high ropes focus more on personal growth. Secured in a professional harness, you will climb approximately 30 feet up into the trees and go through a serious of elements. Test your personal limits and achieve a new goal! Develop greater confidence in yourself and others.

zip line

Experience an exhilarating ride on our 200-ft Zip Line from 45-ft in the air. This event can stand alone or be incorporated with the High Elements

challenge course

Your group may want to improve their communication and problem solving skills on the variety of activities available with our Adventure Course.  A progression of activities will be selected by an experienced leader to allow your group to examine their strengths and weaknesses and through this examination become stronger as a group.

customized programs

Just tell us a little about your group and we will create a custom Challenge Course program to suite your needs.

CLIMBING release of liability 2011

‘have the time of your life.’

God is at work, and lives are changed for Him and forever transformed.

How has God used Men-O-Lan to transform your life?

As God continues to be the same mighty  God of the Bible, we are blessed to know how He is working, so others may be encouraged by how He has worked in the lives of His own.

Posted Feb. 4, 2009 

Whenever I feel “lost” in my walk with the Lord I try to take time to slow down and remember what I call “God things”. Those moments in life that you can look back on and say that it all happened because of God. It had His fingerprints all over it. I have had several “God things” in my life, starting at the moment of my birth. One significant “God thing” that ranks near the top of my list is Camp Men-O-Lan. Men-O-Lan as many like to call it became a “God thing” for me beginning in the Summer of 1998. 
It was a rainy April Saturday in ’98 when I found myself driving north from where I live to a place in Quakertown, Bucks County, to interview for a position to be on summer staff at Men-O-Lan. I had heard of Quakertown, Bucks County but I had never heard of Camp Men-O-Lan. I still don’t know even today how I got the phone number to camp but somehow I did. Just a week before my Saturday day trip I had called the camp to ask about a position, thinking that there probably weren’t any openings. To my surprise there were, and the director at the time invited me to come and interview. After the interview I remember thinking that I probably would not be hired, I had no real reason why, other than it was my frame of mind at that point in life to think the worse. To my surprise and according to God’s will I was hired!
To understand my reasons for not expecting anything I have to tell you my back-story. Before coming to Men-O-Lan I had spent a year and a half looking for a job with no success. I had graduated from college with a teaching degree and was not having any luck landing a job. I had also spent part of the summer before, working on the mission field in Mexico but did not feel that I was to go back. In addition there were several other disappointments in my life at the time. So I had come to the point in my walk where I believed in God but I questioned how much he cared about the details of my life.  My choice to work at a summer camp originally was out of pure selfish motives. I had grown up going to summer camp (not Men-O-Lan) and I had always known it to be a place for me where “things made sense”. So in the spring of ’98 I started looking for a summer camp to work in, thinking it would be a “safe” place to work and possibly, hopefully, figure some things out. 
Camp Men-O-Lan ended up not only becoming a “safe” place for me spiritually as I wrestled through many questions but it became my second home. After showing up late for the first day of staff orientation (a tornado struck the school that I was subbing in) and feeling so out of place because everyone seemed to know each other, God took hold of my hand and began the slow process to recapture my heart for His glory. The first summer I worked as Craft Director and when I wasn’t teaching a class or helping in some other way I spent my time just observing and listening and watching how real the Lord was in the lives of those I was working with. I wrestled with a lot of questions in regards to if what I was witnessing was real or not; genuine or fake. Like I said I had just spent several months slipping into a mindset of unbelievable doubt and mediocrity. So, during the days of my first summer at Men-O-Lan I became a background observer. I blended in, didn’t make much of anything, yet I took in everything. Every morning I would take walks through the woods or sit at the lake.  I would talk to the Lord (and many times cry) just trying to figure out how what I had come from fits into what I was experiencing. And every morning God faithfully met with me and gently showed me that I needed to let go of the past year and a half, allow his blood to wash it clean, and look ahead to what was real – HIM. It was like I was a child who was holding a broken toy, crying for God to fix it. Instead, the Lord came and unwrapped my hands, took the brokenness and he didn’t just fix it, he replaced it with life that was better than anything I had ever experienced! 
The summer of 1998 ended and so I thought my experience of camp was over too. However, in God’s sovereignty, it was just the beginning. He called me back to work at Men-O-Lan for another seven summers. Each summer built on the first. Each year I could see myself grow and gain understanding in ways that were/are amazing. Each summer I have grown to know the voice of the Lord so intimately and yet I still don’t know much of anything. There are many, many, times when I am working in my classroom (Yes, I eventually did get a teaching job) that I am instantly taken back to camp in my mind and reminded of a lesson learned, a truth gained, a longing fulfilled, and I simply thank my Father in Heaven. The ministry of Men-O-Lan is with me everyday!
 The summer of 2005 was my last summer to be on actual staff but as those who have been to camp know “its in the blood” and I can’t keep myself away completely.  You will still see me visiting or volunteering from time to time. And just about everyday you will see me walking the trails of camp if not physically, than in my mind’s eye, talking to the Lord having Him show me one more time how real He is in a world that many times does not make sense. This real walk I have with the Lord is all because of “A Place Where People Meet the Master” allowing me to declare “…That I may KNOW HIM” (Phil 3:10). Amen.

-Mary

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