Support Camp Orchard Hill
Camp Orchard Hill
640 Orange Road
Dallas, PA 18612
Please specify the nature of your gift in the memo section of your check.
Call Jim Payne at 570-333-4098 x101 to donate by phone.
In 2005, with the help of friends like you, Orchard Hill was able to install 12,500 sports tiles in our brand-new gymnasium. Since then, more than 100,000 young people have walked, played and run on that floor. Their lives have been changed. And often the lives of their families as well.
Now, after 20 years, we have to replace our old gymnasium floor with a new floor. The old floor is simply worn out and some of the tiles have warped or become loose.
Throughout the year Camp Orchard Hill conducts Outreach Ministries in our local area and region. During the school year we host a weekly after-school program for children and youth from a low-income housing development in Luzerne County. The program includes recreation, arts and crafts, dinner and a Bible lesson. During the summer we host a 5-day program at the same development in conjunction with COH Mission. Each day we provide a hot lunch, games, activities, arts and crafts and a Bible lesson. Every year for two weeks we hold Christmas at Camp for area homeless men. During the time the men are here we provide a hand up and not just a handout. We help the men with birth certificates, ID’s, social security cards and housing. We provide meals each day and each night a different church, community group or family provides dinner for the men. Our goal is to help meet the men’s physical needs while introducing them to the one who can meet all of their needs. A donation to Outreach Ministries allows us to help reach those who are most vulnerable in society and share God’s love!
MULTIPLY YOUR GIVING…UP TO $25,000
Generous donors have created a $25,000 matching gift to multiply your giving and to help us complete this first new cabin debt free.
Your year-end gift toward replacement cabins will be matched dollar for dollar!
The new Fireside Lodge is officially open for business! This new facility houses up to 48 campers and includes bathroom and showers connected to each bunk room. It is fully ADA accessible which will increase our opportunity to serve guests with physical challenges. It will be a blessing to campers for decades to come. This new facility was completed debt-free thanks to the generosity of our camp family of donors!
Camper Testimonials
I really want to come back this year but we do not have enough money to pay for the full price. I really like the counselors. I’m a lot closer to God. I pray every night and I have 30 minutes devoted to reading my Bible. I hope you really let me come back to camp this year.
I would like to tell you how much I enjoyed staying at Camp Orchard Hill last summer. Words cannot describe how much fun I had and all that I learned. It allowed me to make new friends, become involved in sports and other activities, but also to become closer to God and his teachings. I loved how every morning we went into the prayer hall to listen to spiritual music and learn about Jesus. In all, I had a great time at camp and I hope to attend this year.
Camp was a great experience for these reasons. The week that I spent last summer was unforgettable. I became closer to Christ and I learned so much from his teachings. The speakers that were featured during the week really were an inspiration to me. I also loved the activities that we did. Everything was so fresh and full of energy. And, what a better way to start off a great week of camp then to make new friends. I have met girls at camp that I am still close with today. No one ever feels left out here. Those things are what makes camp the best it can be and the things that I loved.
