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Well, we’ve officially made it to the end of our Theme Rewind blog series. Over the past ten weeks, we’ve been counting down to the new year and a brand-new theme for the summer of 2018. I want to...

I remember when Ty announced the theme for the summer of 2016, Let There Be Light. It originally seemed so simple, but as the staff dove into it, I realized the true depth of this simple phrase. During Staff...

The theme at Camp Deer Run in the summer of 2015 was Live Like Jesus. In a way, living like Jesus is the underlying idea of every theme that Camp has ever had. Did Jesus unplug from the chaos...

We are now just four weeks away from the start of 2018 and the 60th anniversary of Camp Deer Run. It is truly incredible to sit and think of all of the lives that have been changed through this...

The theme of the summer of 2013 was “Praise His Name,” drawing on one of the predominant themes of the Psalms. I was the greenhorn Hoche group leader, and in addition to the challenges presented by my position, there...

When I was young, I remember playing with a huge rainbow parachute on Cheuk Ballfield. As I got older, I traded the PeeWee parachute and duck, duck, goose for camo t-shirts and capture the flag in the piney woods....