Casowasco, Summer 2008
Aldersgate, Summer 2008
Get ready to step into the highlight of your summer…Meet new friends, explore your relationship with God, take wild adventures, & have the time of your life! Participate in indoor and outdoor activities that will challenge you to reach beyond yourself. All this will make for one great week of fun.
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Call Casowasco at 315-364-8756 for tickets. Hosted by ‘Friends of Casowasco, Inc.’ Public welcome! Find out more about Acappella.
Need time to get away? Come to camp for lots of R & R while having the opportunity to swim, sail, hike, bike, or even Blob! The kids don’t have to have all the fun! Sorry kids, adults only.
Beautiful, historic Galilee Lodge on Owasco Lake will be the host building for fireside fun, fellowship, and time of heart-warming worship. Ring in 2009 with joy while surrounded by old and new friends. Sign the kids up for Echo and have a stress-free ending to the holiday season. Relax and allow the beauty of Casowasco in the winter to rekindle your spirit!
Did you ever wonder how the big rockets take off and soar through the air? Learn about flight while you make your own model rocket and hot air balloon, and then launch them into the sky. You’ll also get the chance to play with remote control planes and helicopters, too. Come explore the sky and test out your wings!
Sleep out, camp out, cookout, and bug out! Come celebrate some of the most unique creatures in nature…BUGS! Catch, study, and start your own collection of everything creepy and crawly. Travel to Cayuga Nature Center to see amazing bugs in action. Enjoy all the great things of camp as well: swimming, hiking/riding the trails of the Highlands, the Blob, and evening worship every night.
Too much fun to SCUBA dive, tube, and water-ski? No way! You can do all that plus bum around the shores of Owasco Lake. End the week with a luau, including a chance to show your skills at the limbo.
Start off on the right foot! Enjoy a two-day program with activities like crafts, swimming, a wagon ride, Bible stories, and games. Meet new friends while we learn about God.
Get ready for mountain biking, skate boarding, and rollerblading thrills! Ride the trails on a Diggler, hit the ramps and hot rails, or do some off road trail blazing on your bike. Campers will travel to Ithaca Skate Park.
There is a BMW in all of us, right girls? Come to the Highlands for the dirtiest, loudest, most relaxing spa retreat Casowasco has ever seen! Stay out late, sleep in; enjoy a relaxing mud bath in the Highlands mud pit, spiritual spa treatments, facials, camp out in the hard woods one night, long hikes, swimming, great food, and other typical Highlands fun! Learn how God makes every girl gorgeous, no matter what her hair looks like.
This program is for novice and beginning riders, as well as those who ride infrequently. It focuses on basics including saddling, walking, and trotting. Four visits to the stables include horse science, grooming, and chores.
This program is for novice and beginning riders, as well as those who ride infrequently. It focuses on basics including saddling, walking, and trotting. Four visits to the stables include horse science, grooming, and chores.
Sign up now for the most rockin’ New Year’s Eve celebration around! This is your chance to hang out with your camp friends and relax! Camp Echo offers all the great things you love about camp…with SNOW! Summer staff returns to be with you at this cool event. Learn to play Jack Frost, rock out to your favorite songs, and see the combined Aldersgate and Casowasco slide show! Hosted at Casowasco.
Explore New York State on trips you will help to plan once you arrive at camp. You choose where you want to go and travel each day to cool destinations. You never know where the road will lead!
This is it! This is where the camp fun begins!
Two weeks of camp fun and an incredible “tweekend,” too.
Join Acappella for a weeklong intensive choral program! Learn songs to perform with these international stars. Campers will practice each day for a star studded ending concert for parents and other family! Hang out with Acappella and hear what it’s like (and what it takes) to be a star. Sing for God’s glory and take center stage.
Join God’s Team and celebrate the ultimate victory! Try your hand at different sports including soccer, basketball, and volleyball to name a few – with a focus on fun! Campers will also have the opportunity to sign up for individual events like mountain biking or rollerblading, so bring your gear. The older age group will travel to Champions for Life for indoor soccer! Discover what it means to be a Christian athlete.
Like Club Med, only better! Make your own daily schedule. Pick the activities you want to do and enjoy. Things like swimming, blobbing, sailing, crafts, archery, challenge activities, and sports. A unique experience awaits you every day at the Club!
Focus your week on crafts! Celebrate our Creator by creating extra special projects! Showcase your talents using beads, Sculpey© clay, boondoggle, rubber stamps, and more. Make it and display it at your very own craft fair on Friday for your parents, and take it home to enjoy for years!
By invitation only: The best leadership exploration event around. Participants will learn to use their skills for God’s glory. First time campers must be nominated by their churches or other local organizations. Alumni campers may register using the enclosed registration form and procedure. For more information or a nomination form, please contact Casowasco!
*First time nominee fees are paid in full by their nominating agency. Alumni may request sponsorship from their local church if they wish. There is no expectation that churches will be able to sponsor them.
Learn to live a life that is Extreme! Share a week of adventure and fun while learning what it takes to make life extreme everyday. Campers will travel to a high ropes course and go river rafting.
Need a vacation getaway for the entire family? Why not come to camp?! You get to experience all the fun activities with your family. Families will enjoy a few nights away and some quality time with each other. An adult must accompany children and youth participants.
Learn about Jesus, the Master Fisherman and improve your fishing skills! Bait a hook, catch and release, and have a "reel" good time.
We know you can’t get enough FOB FOB ladies! Come relax and enjoy FOBs all over Casowasco in fun and funky ways. You choose when to FOB and when to play! Sleep in and have breakfast in your building!
Discover what it means to be God’s child! Here’s a short program filled with crafts, games, swimming, a wagon ride, Bible stories and campfires.
Get hooked on fly fishing! Learn from a NYS Licensed Fly-Fishing Guide. Learn how to tie your own flies and perfect your casting while on land and from a boat. Take your fishing skills to new levels as we study the fishing techniques of our Master, Jesus.
Have fun learning martial arts skills, self-defense, and conflict resolution techniques. Enjoy a night of sumo wrestling! Throughout the week discover what the Bible says about creating peace.
Have you ever thought about exploring your faith in a deeper, more radical way with thousands of other like-minded youth and adults? Then join us for Kingdom Bound - a 4-day Christian festival with awesome Christian bands, insightful seminars, meaningful worship experiences and great fellowship. Kingdom Bound is held on the grounds of the Darien Lake Theme Park. Plan to tent or stay in an RV at or near the park. This will allow us to spend extra time experiencing all that Kingdom Bound has to offer.
The slickest, sloppiest, messiest time you have ever had at camp! Highlands adventures, memorable camp fun, all with lots of – you guessed it – MUD!
Swim, splash, snorkel, canoe, kayak, improve your strokes, and play loads of water games. Get wet and stay wet!
This special four-day version of Boots and Saddles is a great chance to sample horseback riding in a more relaxed schedule. You will travel to the stables three days.
Splash Or Swim through a wild, wet, and wacky water fun week. Snorkel, kayak, and ride the waves with your friends on the Waterboggan! Beat the heat, catch some rays, and celebrate summer at a luau.
Ahoy matey! Learn to sail on the waters of Owasco Lake. Explore what happens when you just let go, both in high wind and in life. Join Cap’n and crew for a Swashbucklers’ Beach Bash. First time sailors – ye must be able to swim.
Not only can you play in the water, but you can play sports and games, make crafts, and ride the trails around the camp. Sign up for big time fun!
All the coolest stuff with a focus on photography! Take and develop awesome black and white pictures of your great time at camp. Plan to bring a 35 mm camera. We have a few that can be loaned out. Please notify us to reserve one for you.
Everything you love about Summer’s Last Blast PLUS all that’s cool about staying in the Highlands. Awesome times two!
Live B.I.G. (your Belief in God) through music, Bible stories, crafts, and activities to help
you better understand God's purpose for your life. A 2:1 camper/counselor ratio is maintained (for Special Needs Campers).
Take it up a notch and become a true artist. Work with clay and other mediums, and learn painting and drawing techniques. Draw, sculpt, and create!
Take a wild mountain bike ride through a week of off-road trailblazing fun on the main trails and through the Highlands. Ride on a Diggler, just for fun. Learn how to keep heading in the right direction and get through life's potholes, using God as your guide.
As you arrive at camp you will enter into and be a part of the mystery. You will have the chance to explore the scene, talk to witnesses and suspects, gather clues, and put it all together to solve the mystery of who left the special gift.
For experienced riders only. Wranglers offers an advanced challenge while going to the stables all five days. Trot, canter, and jump!
Do you love camp? Then enjoy this notched-up program for older Tweekers. Leadership, counseling, and activity skills development, cementing life-long friendships, plus all of the You Can’t fun!
Triple the fun, the friends, and the memories by packing three weeks of camp into TWO – Plus a tweekend you’ll definitely will never forget!
This is it! The one you’ve heard about (or lived) for years. Your “standard” You Can’t program that is anything BUT “standard.” We pull out all the stops for this week of crazy camp fun.
Outdoor living with a touch of wackiness you won’t believe! Live in Hogan tents and spend half your day in the Highlands, then the remainder of the day on main site with the rest of the crowd.
Past destinations include Seabreeze, matinee movies and pizza, whitewater rafting, Darien Lake, Watkins Glen Boat Cruise, Roseland, MOST and IMAX, Rock Ventures, laser tag, and other awesome Central New York locations. Get ready to hit the Road!