SHEHAQUA FAMILY NEWS

Save the Camp Dates for 2014

Here are the dates for this year’s camps. Save the dates in your calendar now, request time off at work, and get ready for another season of fun! We will send out another email soon when registration opens. At that time we will also announce the camp directors.

SPRING:
Shehaqua Spring Gathering: May 16 – 18

SUMMER:
Group leader training: July 18 – 20
Shehaqua Family Camp Week 1: July 20 – 25
Shehaqua Family Camp Weekend 1.5: July 25 – 27
Shehaqua Family Camp Week 2: July 28 – August 2*
Shehaqua Family Camp Week 3: August 4 – 9*
* = We might add Sunday, August 3, as an extra day to either one of the last two weeks. Please email us at [email address redacted] to tell us whether you would prefer an extra day, and if yes, for which one of these two weeks.

FALL:
Shehaqua Harvest Festival: September 19 – 21

WINTER:
Winter Retreat: December 29 – January 1

2014 T-shirts and Hoodies

To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, we will reprint the first Shehaqua T-shirt that was ever made (in 1997). The grey T-shirts have the vintage design in forest green on the back, and our 20 Years logo on the front in periwinkle as a breast print. We will also print a navy hoodie (hooded sweatshirt) with the same breast print in gold on the front (no design on the back).

Click on the thumbnails for larger images:

The prices are:
$10 for all T-shirts
$15 for hoodies Youth and Adult up to XL
$17 for hoodies 2XL and 3XL

To ensure that you will get the size you need, please place your order at the time of registration for the Spring Gathering and Family Camp, but no later than April 15 for Spring Gathering and June 15 for Family Camp.

Available sizes for both T-shirts and hoodies (must preorder):
Adult S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL
Youth S, M, L

Shehaqua Needs More Lifeguards

Camp Shehaqua’s swimming pool can be used during family camp as long as there is a lifeguard on duty. Weather permitting, we keep the pool open for two hours during free time in the afternoons. To ensure that two lifeguards can be on duty at the same time, and that neither one of them has to be on duty for more than an hour a day, we need more lifeguards.

If you are a Red Cross certified lifeguard and are interested in serving (or serving again) at camp, or if you are interested in taking a lifeguard course, please get in touch with Haydee Ching, at [email address redacted]. You will get 50% of the camp fee off for the week you serve as a lifeguard.

Bruce Bonini’s Seong Hwa

The chapel at the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, NY, was packed to standing room only on March 1, 2014, for Bruce Bonini’s Seong Hwa Ceremony. (Bruce had passed to spirit world on February 25 because of a stroke.) Even the chapel’s balcony had to be used to accommodate the estimated 300 people who gathered to honor and celebrate Bruce’s rich life. Probably half of those attending had come to Camp Shehaqua at some point, including most of the people who made beautiful musical offerings and gave heartfelt testimonies. It was a moving event.

• You can watch the whole ceremony on video (captured by Peter van Geldern) here.
• Watch a short video of moments of Bruce at Camp Shehaqua here.
• Watch a video (taken by David Hill) of Bruce singing with his daughers Elizabeth and Carolyn and two grandkids at Camp Shehaqua in 2008 here.

Family News

Just a few hours after Bruce Bonini’s Seong Hwa Ceremony on March 1, Elizabeth Bonini Stewart, the oldest daughter of Bruce and Betsy, gave birth to her fourth child, a boy named Marjin (maa rin) Ender Stewart. Congratulations to the happy parents Mike and Elizabeth Stewart.

Serena Ryoko Sawamukai was born at 3:30 am on February 8. She was 5 lb. 15 oz. and 18 inches long. Congratulations to the happy parents Danso and Lara Sawamukai.

We welcome news about births and weddings. Please let us know if you have any announcements for this new section in our newsletter by emailing us at [email address redacted]

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