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By:  Chris “Topher” Aderhold Have you heard?  If you register your campers, and pay in full by the end of the day on February 1st, you save $15 PER camper!  Yes indeedy!  (My goodness, we’re so excited for Summer Camp!) Also, have you heard?  Topher has been blogging every Tuesday on the Camp Gray blog, [...]

By:  Chris “Topher” Aderhold Yesterday morning, as I walked across the snow-covered basketball court toward the Camp Gray office, taking in the eerie sounds of winter’s silence, I couldn’t help but think about how drastically different my walk is during Summer Camp.  Besides the obvious – no snow, no need to wear wool socks, and [...]

By: Chris “Topher” Aderhold Public Service Announcement from Camp Gray: Ever since the Panda Ball pandemic (ding!) exploded during Summer Camp 2011, there have been numerous confirmed reports of Panda Ball games being played near and far. Already this past summer, we received word that Camp Gray Voyageur campers, while canoeing up north, created their [...]

By:  Chris “Topher” Aderhold “Today you both are doing a very noble thing by making a lifelong promise of fidelity to one another before God and witnesses.  A promise of this kind may bring about fear; it is true in any vocation… But why fear? With Christ the wine of Charity never runs out.”  – [...]

By:  Chris “Topher” Aderhold I had the great privilege of folding my 6’4’’ frame into the backseat of an extended cab Ford Ranger pickup earlier today, and as I sat enduring the bumpy, ice coated roads of Wisconsin, I pondered what it should be that I write about in the weekly edition of, “Tuesday’s with [...]

By: Chris “Topher” Aderhold Even though there’s hardly even a dusting of snow on the ground at Camp Gray right now, Christmas is still just around the corner (it only feels like its early spring…). Every year, as Christmas fast approaches, memories of Christmases gone by seem to rush to the forefront of my mind. [...]

By: Chris “Topher” Aderhold A great thrill for me personally in working at Camp Gray is that I’ve been here long enough to literally watch kids grow up each year, one week at a time. My first two summers on staff, I had the privilege of counseling every age group of campers, from 2nd – [...]