Our goal is to foster the kind of self-esteem that facilitates spiritual growth. Opportunities for such growth are created in the process of supporting campers through challenging experiences. Success in negotiating rapids or exploring artistic creativity offers a deeper strength from which to accept the challenge and risk of turning inward toward the Light. Typically, a camper goes home a more competent, confident person whose spiritual roots have deepened and whose ties to the broader Quaker community have strengthened. See acceptance policy for more information Arts and more in the Wilderness Opequon Quaker Camp Opequon Quaker Camp, formerly called Quaker Arts Camp, now has a permanent home on a hill above the Opequon Creek, just north of Winchester, Virginia.
Campers live in screened cabins and share meals in the pavilion in the center of camp.
The day includes all-camp activities, art projects, games in the playing field, swimming in the pool, and exploring in the creek. Other activities include cooperative games, exploring in the woods, singing and working together, performances, time to play musical instruments, sailboats, fire circle, and tons of other cool things like batik, volleyball, puppet making, star gazing, candle making, and tubing on the creek. Rooted in nature and celebrating our connections to the earth and to one another, we nurture the divine within and around us. We experience community through fun and through working together. Everyone at camp begins the day in worship at the fire circle.