No commitment, no pressure! Just answers to your questions!
2022 Staff Applications are NOT open yet. In the meantime, you can:
1. Read our "2021 Camp Bethel Summer Camp Information" packet (2022 packet coming soon).
2. Read the information below.
1. Read our "2021 Camp Bethel Summer Camp Information" packet (2022 packet coming soon).
2. Read the information below.
We strongly recommend all summer staff take steps to get vaccinated as soon as possible. To find easy and FREE vaccination options near you, visit vaccinate.virginia.gov. Having a fully vaccinated staff will make programmatic things like staff housing and staff training significantly easier. All staff will agree to and adhere to a Healthy Behavior Agreement concerning weekends and time off. Staff who are vaccinated will follow a separate, more flexible Healthy Behavior Agreement.
$320/week for 7 weeks; add'l $25/wk each returning year, plus $200(+) end-of-summer bonus, plus $300 for every adult counselor you recruit! Staff Training is May 30-June 10, 2022, and paid weeks are June 12-July 23/30. (Total commitment is 9 weeks). Housing, meals, laundry house, and supplies provided May 30-July 23/30. Additional paid work available July 31- August 13. This is a resident position - Adventure Counselors are on-site and on duty each week 12:00pm Sunday through 8:30pm Friday and off duty 8:30pm Friday through 12:00pm Sunday. Off duty on-site housing is provided and encouraged, but it is not required while off duty.
Adventure Counselor Description (ages 18+):
In teams of two to four, counselors are "in loco parentis" (in place of parents) for their Unit of 8-10 campers. Counselors are expected to be fully engaged with campers, keep their campers safe, act as role models, and guide campers through the schedule/activities they have planned together. During staff training, all counselors will learn the activity skills they will need. Activities that are offered on-site at Camp Bethel include swimming, hiking, biking, crafts, creek-play, cook-outs, singing, challenge course, high-ropes course, low-ropes course, archery, nature study, group games, skits, Bible study, worship, campfires, and campouts, with many more activities offered off-site. Counselors stay in a cabin with their campers at night. When assigned to an Adventure Unit, Counselors stay with their campers at night in their Adventure Village platform hut. Most units are co-ed. All sleeping facilities are separated by gender: female counselors stay in cabins/huts with female campers, and male counselors stay in cabins/huts with male campers. Each morning, units reunite at Morning Watch. Adventure Counselors will work with most ages: Elementary Camp (ages 8-11), Middle School (ages 12-14), and High School (ages 15-17).
No matter how circumstances may change prior to our 2022 summer, we must continue to mitigate the risk of virus transmission from person to person. For this reason, we will continue to implement health-and-safety protocols in 2022. If you can not or will not take these protocols seriously, do not apply.
Staff Recommendation Form
View a detailed position description and 2021 Summer Staff Policies.
In teams of two to four, counselors are "in loco parentis" (in place of parents) for their Unit of 8-10 campers. Counselors are expected to be fully engaged with campers, keep their campers safe, act as role models, and guide campers through the schedule/activities they have planned together. During staff training, all counselors will learn the activity skills they will need. Activities that are offered on-site at Camp Bethel include swimming, hiking, biking, crafts, creek-play, cook-outs, singing, challenge course, high-ropes course, low-ropes course, archery, nature study, group games, skits, Bible study, worship, campfires, and campouts, with many more activities offered off-site. Counselors stay in a cabin with their campers at night. When assigned to an Adventure Unit, Counselors stay with their campers at night in their Adventure Village platform hut. Most units are co-ed. All sleeping facilities are separated by gender: female counselors stay in cabins/huts with female campers, and male counselors stay in cabins/huts with male campers. Each morning, units reunite at Morning Watch. Adventure Counselors will work with most ages: Elementary Camp (ages 8-11), Middle School (ages 12-14), and High School (ages 15-17).
No matter how circumstances may change prior to our 2022 summer, we must continue to mitigate the risk of virus transmission from person to person. For this reason, we will continue to implement health-and-safety protocols in 2022. If you can not or will not take these protocols seriously, do not apply.
Staff Recommendation Form
View a detailed position description and 2021 Summer Staff Policies.
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