{"id":23987,"date":"2024-07-06T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=23987"},"modified":"2025-03-07T22:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T22:18:30","slug":"senior-high-youth-service-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/senior-high-youth-service-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Brethren Heights hosts senior high youth service project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Frank Ramirez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat do we do if there\u2019s a mouse in the cabin?\u201d asked one of the 31 youth who traveled to Camp Brethren Heights, around an hour north of the Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, for a service project, lunch, and swimming in the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This particular group of youth were given the task of cleaning several cabins around the camp, which would be used for the upcoming Song and Story Fest. The smell of disinfectant was in the air. The sound of vacuums and the thunder of a power wash cleaner were heard as the inside and outside of the cabins were scrubbed clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The youth were assured by one of the nine adults who provided support and encouragement and were the drivers for the expedition: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. That mouse wants to get away from you as much as you want it to leave.\u201d Soon the mouse was gone, although the rustling of other wildlife was heard on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the youth cleared the lakefront area of stones while a couple of youth with experience with a wood splitter split the logs and heavier branches left over from the winter, creating firewood for the camp\u2019s use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a lunch of sandwiches made by the youth, with chips and snacks, many took advantage of Four Square, walking, and swimming at the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Bancroft, camp director for facilities, led the day\u2019s cleaning. Jamie McBride, director of programing at the camp, represented the camp at the Annual Conference in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/youthserviceproject-byFrankRamirez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/youthserviceproject-byFrankRamirez.jpg 491w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/youthserviceproject-byFrankRamirez-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Frank Ramirez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#cobac2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do we do if there\u2019s a mouse in the cabin?\u201d asked one of the 31 youth who traveled to Camp Brethren Heights, around an hour north of the Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, for a service project, lunch, and swimming in the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1258,2886,2557,2063,2195,1727],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-23987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-annual-conference","tag-annual-conference-2024","tag-camp-brethren-heights","tag-service-project","tag-service","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23995,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions\/23995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=23987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}