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    • Our Mission and Ministry >
      • Virlina District Church of the Brethren >
        • GAG
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    • Parent-Child Overnight & Day Camp
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      • Young Elementary Camps >
        • Parent-Child Overnight and Day Camp
        • Mini-Camp
        • Knee-High Day Camp
      • Older Elementary Camps >
        • Elementary Resident Camps
        • Elementary Resident + Tubing
        • Elementary Resident + Equestrian
        • Elementary Adventure Explorers
        • Elementary Adventure Explorers + Tubing
        • Elementary 3-Day Sampler Camp
        • Elementary Day Camps
      • Middle School Camps >
        • Middle School Adventure Camps >
          • MS Adv Explorers
          • MS Adv Canoe + Climb
          • MS Adv Canoe + Tube
          • MS Adv Canoe + Cave + Climb
          • MS Adv Cave + Climb + Tube
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          • Middle School Resident + Tubing
          • Middle School Resident + Equestrian
        • River Adventures for Middle Schoolers >
          • Paddlesports Adv for Middle School
          • James River Canoe Adventure
          • Stand Up Paddleboarding Adventure for Middle School
          • Kayaking Adventure for Middle School
        • Skills Camps for Middle Schoolers >
          • Digital Arts Camp
        • Trips for Middle Schoolers >
          • Backpacking MS
          • James River Canoe
          • New River Canoe Trip
          • MBB Trip
          • BUMAT Trip
      • Trips and Skills Camps >
        • James River Canoe Adventure
        • New River Canoe Trip
        • Paddlesports Adventure
        • Digital Arts Camp
        • Backpacking Trip
        • Kayaking Adventure
        • Stand Up Paddleboarding Adventure
        • Mountains to Beach to Bay Trip
        • Brethren United Mountain Adventure Trip
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        • High School Resident Camp
        • High School Resident + Tubing
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          • New River Trip 7 High School
          • RAP
        • River Adventures for High Schoolers >
          • Paddlesports Adventure for High School
          • New River Canoe Trip for High School
          • Stand Up Paddleboarding Adventure for High School
          • Kayaking Adventure for High School
        • Skills Camps for High Schoolers >
          • Digital Arts Camp HS
        • Trips for High Schoolers >
          • Backpacking Trip HS
          • Brethren United Mountain Adventure Trip HS
          • Mountains to Beach to Bay HS
          • New River Canoe HS
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      • Coordinators >
        • Assistant Program Coordinator
        • Digital Media Coordinator
        • Health Coordinator
        • High Ropes Coordinator
        • Music and Crafts Coordinator
        • Pool Coordinator
        • Spiritual Life Coordinator
        • Trips Coordinator
      • Kitchen & Grounds >
        • Kitchen Staff
        • Grounds Crew
      • Staff Adoption
    • ParentInfo >
      • Parent Information
      • About Summer Camps
      • Health >
        • COVID19 SAFETY PLAN
      • Pay for Camp >
        • Financial Assistance
        • Church Good-as-Gold Assistance
      • request brochure
      • Packets
    • Scholarships For Camp
    • Camp Songs
    • CampAtHome >
      • Camp At Home Videos
      • Family Guided Adventures
      • Onward We Go Bible Study
    • Virlina Churches Good-As-Gold
  • Events
    • March 5 Camp Rep ZOOM
    • April 2 Spring Workday
    • Apr 8-9 Sounds of the Mountains Storytelling Festival
    • Spring ACA Courses
    • Memorial Day Family Weekend
    • June 3-4 Parent-Child Overnight & Day Camp
    • June-July Summer Camps
  • Groups
    • Facility Rental
    • Facility Photos
    • Food Services
    • DiscGolf
    • Band Camps
    • Camp Bethel Events
    • inquiry
    • COVID and your Retreat
  • Outdoor Ed
    • ACA Courses >
      • ACA Canoe Instructor Course
      • ACA Kayak Instructor Course
      • ACA Trip Leader Course
    • Compass/GPS Trail Adventures
    • Disc-Golf
    • KinderCritters
    • Your Outdoor Classroom
    • River Otters Paddle Sports
  • Connect
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    • donate
    • TradingPost
    • Winter Camp
    • Self-Guided Adventures
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      • Summer Program Jobs
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      • Summer Kitchen Staff
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JUNIOR COUNSELORS

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WANT MORE INFORMATION?
No commitment, no pressure! Just answers to your questions!
HOW TO APPLY:
1. Read the detailed "
2022 Camp Bethel Staff Information" packet.
2. Read the information below.
3. Click the "New" or "Returning" button below.
We strongly recommend all summer staff to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Find easy and free vaccinations and tests at our COVID page. A fully vaccinated staff will make programmatic decisions like staff housing and staff training significantly easier. We will once again adhere to a Healthy Behavior Agreement which includes weekends and time off during the summer. Vaccinated staff will follow a separate and more flexible Behavior Agreement.
APPLY NOW! (New Applicants)
APPLY NOW! (RETURNING APPLICANTS)
Junior Counselors $1440+ for 6 weeks; $190/wk. ​Add'l $25/wk each returning year, plus $300(+) end-of-summer bonus, plus $300 for every adult counselor you recuit! Training is May 30-June 10, 2022, and paid weeks are June 12-July 23/30. (Total commitment is 8-or-9 weeks.) Except for June 3-5 and July 22-23, weekends are off duty Fridays 8:00pm through Sundays 12:00pm. Unpaid time off is available with advanced arrangement. ​ Add'l paid work available July 31- August 13. Only hiring exceptional applicants. HIRED: Lily Brabham, Eric Camilleri, Cassidy Church, Josh Foster, Guy Fulcher, Adam Heckman, Maggie Pizzullo, Leah Thompson, Abbie Wilson, Makenna Yopp. Seeking 1 female & 1 male.
Junior Counselor Description (ages 16-17):
In teams of two to four, counselors are "in loco parentis" (in place of parents) for their Unit of 8-10 campers. 
Junior Counselors are expected to work with Senior Counselors and Adventure Counselors to engage with campers, keep their campers safe, act as role models, and guide campers through the schedule/activities they have planned together.  During staff training, Junior Counselors are taught the skills they need to work with co-counselors and guide campers through a week of activities at camp. 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.  Junior Counselors will work with all ages: Mini-Camp & Day Camp (ages 5-7), 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 2022 Summer Staff Policies.
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WHAT PARENTS ARE SAYING:
"Our son and daughter have been coming to Camp Bethel since they were 5 years old--they are now 13 and 14 years old. We have found that your camp is one of the few that our kids continue to enjoy even as they are older. Other camps (sometimes a lot more expensive) are nice but for some reason the magic of Camp Bethel remains. We also really respect the way that your camp incorporates God and Bible study but in such a way that it is still cool--a rarity these days to find a place where kids can be kids and learn to love God and care for one another in God's creation. Thanks so much for the awesome experience for our kids and the ongoing magic that is Camp Bethel. Thanks, Gina and Chris Engel" 

CONTACT US  540.992.2940
CampBethelOffice@gmail.com
328 Bethel Road, Fincastle, VA 24090

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