Rumors abound regarding Laurel Lake Camp. Here is what is happening. Rick Bianco has just put out an excellent brochure for 2009 Summer Camp registration. I got one in the mail at my house yesterday. I think this is the earliest I have seen our LLC brochure go out, and I hope that you will encourage the young people you know to attend summer camp this year. To view the 2009 Laurel Lake Camp Brochure, go to the PA Conference website, www.paconference.org and click on “Ministries” then scroll down and click on “Laurel Lake Camp. I encourage you to forward it along to any young people or families that you know.
Someone has said that the Conference is closing the camp and selling the property. This is news to me! I want to know just who is selling the camp and what they are receiving for it.
The truth is, we have asked Vernon Bramble, a long-standing Seventh-day Adventist member, who has an excellent corporate background in finance, who has served as the Treasurer of our HVCA school in Philadelphia, and been a financial consultant for a number of non-profit corporations, including some turn-around situations, to conduct a cost analysis and business plan for Laurel Lake Camp. He is well into a thorough review of camp operations and has already begun to make a number of excellent recommendations.
In December, Vernon gave a general overview of his work to the Conference Executive Committee In the next few weeks he will be conducting a strategic planning session with Gary Moran, Rick Bianco, Mo Pelley and Karen Schneider, and involve others interested in the camp along the way. For us to have a viable camp program at Laurel Lake Camp, we need to establish some short and long term goals, strategies and benchmarks to reach. Vernon Bramble has very knowledgably engaged us in this process.
This does not mean that plans are being made to close camp. But with any endeavor, there is not the availability of indefinite and infinite resources. To recognize that and seek to find a way to have a future is not to say there are plans on the table to close and sell. It is actually to be a good steward of God’s resources, people and mission.
Vernon will be giving a complete presentation with his recommendations to the Executive Committee in February.
As it is within your power, please communicate with those you know the details I have shared here.
If you or anyone else have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
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