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Camp Bethel & the Virlina District Church of the Brethren's

27th Annual Heritage Day Festival

Saturday, October 1, 2011, 7:30am-2:30pm

Big thanks to EVERYONE for making October 1  a HUGE SUCCESS! 

Total 2011 funds raised thus far are listed HERE.

BREAKFAST FROM 7:30am-9:30am in the ARK DINING HALL.

BOOTHS & DISPLAYS OPEN AT 9:00am throughout the campus.

Total 2011 Info Packet & Registration Form in PDF  2011 VENDOR MAP AND INSTRUCTIONS.

Help us!  Print the Heritage Day Bulletin Insert and use on Sundays, September 18 & 25.  Print several Heritage Day Posters, hang them everywhere you can and give to your friends and co-workers this week.  Thank you!

Jump to: APPLE BUTTER HELP   T-POST HELP    PARKING HELP

Schedule  Food Prep Info Packet    Photos    Indoor Photos 06    How to Help     Rain Plan

"All things on Earth point home in old October..." - Thomas Wolfe

Dear Friends: Come HOME to Camp Bethel on Saturday, October 1, 2011 for HERITAGE DAY, our biggest day of the year.

1. BRETHREN HERITAGE FESTIVAL, SAT, OCT 1

PLEASE INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW to come to Camp Bethel this Saturday, October 1 for camp's grandest day: HERITAGE DAY!  40 congregations and groups from our Virlina District Church of the Brethren will present their best offerings.  This family-friendly festival is an important one-day fundraiser for Camp Bethel: 100% of sales directly fund the mission and ministries of the camp.

PUBLIC WELCOME; FREE ENTRY; FREE PARKING!

What a selection: Heritage Day A-to-Z!

Apples & apple pies, aprons, baked goods galore, baby quilts, BBQ (3 choices), birdhouses, biscuits, bottled water, bratwurst, Brethren & Camp Bethel history, cakes, candies, candles, canned goods, chili beans, chips, Christmas décor, cider, cobblers, coffee, cold drinks, cole slaw, cookies, corn dogs, CRAFTS of all kinds, Danishes, dog treats, dolls, dried apples & dried foods, Dunkers!, egg rolls, face painting for kids, flowers: mums & pansies, fried pies & fruit pies, fruit, funnel cakes, German lunch, gingerbread, gourds, ham biscuits, hats, holiday décor, hot breakfast, hot cider, hot chocolate, hot dogs, hot punch, ice cream, jackets, jellies, jewelry, kids' fishing rodeo, knick-knacks, lanyards, music, nachos, nutcrackers, ornaments, pickles, photo booth, pies, pinto beans & cornbread, planter chairs, popcorn, potholders, potpourri, preserves, produce, pumpkins, quilts, Reuben sandwiches, salsa, sauerkraut, sausage & sausage gravy, shirts, sodas, soups, sweatshirts, tea, tie-dyed t-shirts, tools, tote-bags, toys, train rides, trout fishing, udder!, vegetables: fresh & canned, walnut kernels, woodcraft, wreaths, X-ellent family fun, Yule-logs and zucchini bread!

7:30am-9:30am Breakfast in the Ark; 9:00-2:30 Booths open through camp; free admission; free parking; public welcome!  (See schedule below.)  Plan to eat breakfast AND lunch (and 2nd lunch? Early supper?).

Time your visit in combination with Buchanan's Mountain Magic Festival which is open through 5:00pm.

Camp Bethel is the outdoor ministry of the 92 congregations of the Virlina District Church of the Brethren, spanning regions of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina.  Camp Bethel is located off Route 11 between Troutville and Buchanan, just 13 miles north of Hollins University.  For driving directions, see http://www.campbethelvirginia.org/directions.htm. 

2. HERITAGE DAY SCHEDULE:

7:30am-9:30am: Breakfast in the Ark Dining Hall.

9:00am: BOOTHS OPEN throughout camp. 2011 VENDOR MAP AND INSTRUCTIONS

9:30am: Kids' train rides begin; meet beside Bethel Lodge (map #35).

11:00am: Service of dedication for "Pilgrimage Cabin" at Heritage Lodge.

11:00am-2:00pm: Children's Trout-Fishing (ages 3-12 with parents' help).

2:30pm: Booths close; clean-up begins. 

3. HOW YOU CAN HELP:

A. EASY AND IMPORTANT:  Print the Heritage Day Bulletin Insert and use on Sunday, September 18 & 25.  Print several Heritage Day Posters, hang them everywhere you can and give to your friends and co-workers this week.  Thank you!

B. Apple Butter!  Calling all Night Owls!  Camp Bethel summer staff, CITs, volunteers, district youth/young adults, and anybody else who wants to help will begin stirring apple butter at 6:30pm, Friday night September 30.  The apple butter will be sold in Saturday morning's Heritage Day Festival to help fund the ministries of Camp Bethel.  We need many, many volunteers to help stir through the overnight hours.  We also need additional pint and quart jars.  Camp will provide lots of caffeine and snacks to keep us lively through the night (and beds for naps when not stirring; men/boys in StoneHOP; women/girls in Whispering Pines).  If you are willing to help with apple butter please call Barry or Jenny at the camp office (540) 992-2940 or campbetheloffice@gmail.com.  Youth under 18 must have at least one adult advisor per 8 youth.  See you here!

SIGN UP FOR A STIRRING TIME AND BUDDY HERE!

C. Help park cars on Saturday!  SIGN UP FOR A TIME AND PLACE HERE!  or call 540-992-2940.

D. OTHER WAYS TO HELP:

*Encourage everyone you know to attend on Saturday, October 1.  Promote Heritage Day to others by e-mail, phone and word-of-mouth.

*Come Friday, September 30 to help set up the grounds, wash jars, prep apple butter area.

*Help park cars: call us at 540-992-2940; 2 hour shifts from 6:00am through 2:00pm.

*Bring someone along; provide an outing for someone less mobile; carpool.

*Help monitor trash barrels during the day and help with trash after 2:30pm.

*Help a kid catch a fish (and unhook a fish) from 11:00-1:00.

*After 2:30pm: Help bring directional and parking signs to the Ark parking lot.  Help bring empty, clean hand-washing stations and buckets to LaMont storage cabin.  Help Tim take down electrical lines and boxes.  Help bring empty trash barrels to the dumpster area.

FINAL STATISTICS FOR OCTOBER 2, 2010

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A note to our churches and participants:

Plan A is for our 2011 Heritage Day Festival to be out-of-doors in main camp as in years 1984-2005 & 2007-2010.

Plan B, in case of rain on Saturday morning, is to move exhibits into the Deer Field Gym as we did in 2006, (see photos HERE).

Final determination (of Plan A or B) will be announced by 5:00am Saturday morning, October 1.  Please be prepared for either plan.  Thank you!  2011 VENDOR MAP AND INSTRUCTIONS

Total 2011 Info Packet & Registration Form in PDF    2011 VENDOR MAP AND INSTRUCTIONS

Food Prep Info Packet

since updated on 08.30.11

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  Thank you to EVERYONE who helped make a GREAT 2011 Heritage Day!

Updated 10.21.2011

BIG THANK-YOU TO HERITAGE DAY 2011 PARTICIPATING GROUPS!

We are very blessed to have such wonderful and supportive congregations in the Virlina District!  Special THANK-YOU to the following churches and groups who helped raise $30,063.16 for our 2011 Brethren Heritage Day Celebration:  McKimmys, Sue/Rowland Wilson, Summer Staff & YYAM for Apple Butter, Brughs Mill Country Store & Camp Maintenance Staff for Kid’s Fishing, Crumpackers & Oak Grove CoB for Kids' Train Rides!

Thank you to EVERYONE who helped make a GREAT 2011 Heritage Day!

Heritage Day 2011 APPLE BUTTER HELPERS (Fri, Sept 30 through Sat, Oct 1):

E-mail your choice of stirring time and confirmed buddy to Barry at campbetheloffice@gmail.com.  Time slots granted on a first-e-mailed, first-granted basis, (e-mail please, not Facebook).  Thank you!

Minors under 18 must RSVP to Barry & Jenny & overnight youth under 18 must have at least one adult advisor per 8 youth.

Heritage Day 2011 TRADING POST HELPERS (Sat, Oct 1):

E-mail your choice of T-Post time and confirmed buddy to Barry at campbetheloffice@gmail.com.  Time slots granted on a first-e-mailed, first-granted basis.  Thank you!

Heritage Day 2011 PARKING HELPERS (Sat, Oct 1):

E-mail your choice of parking time and area to Barry at campbetheloffice@gmail.com.  Time slots granted on a first-e-mailed, first-granted basis.  Thank you!

6:00am-8:00am: report to Command Post (Ark Lot intersection) for instructions at 5:45am

8:00am-10:00am: report to Command Post (Ark Lot intersection) for instructions at 7:45am

10:00am-12:00noon: report to Command Post (Ark Lot intersection) for instructions at 9:45am

12:00noon-2:00pm: report to Command Post (Ark Lot intersection) for instructions at 11:45am

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