Camp staff have also offered a live stream worship time on Tuesdays singing camp songs and sharing on the summer theme of “Unexpected.”

Care packages are being sent out (pictured below) to campers who moved their deposit and registered to 2021 as well as campers who offered their registration fees as a donation. The packages include new RMMC merchandise and traditional items (like an Aspen tree cookie name tag) that campers would experience at camp.

Get a taste of summer in the Rockies by visiting camp’s Facebook, Instagram and Youtube accounts for all of the videos and live stream activities. It’s not quite like being here in person, but we do hope that, for now, you can virtually connect and feel a bit closer to the mountain.

Pictured: Summer staff scrape, prime, and paint the exterior of Eiger.

Camp without campers

What keeps the staff busy when there are not campers to play with? Besides creating digital content, the staff have been doing projects that a slower summer season gives space to accomplish. A variety of painting projects included painting the exterior of Eiger and Emmental and the floors of the rustic cabins that campers stay in. Housekeeping stays busy by regularly disinfecting surfaces and cleaning cabins after guests. Kitchen continues to serve delicious meals while maintaining safe and healthy serving practices. Office staff keep the wheels turning in coordinating guest rentals and all email and phone correspondence.

Pictured: 2019 Family Campers pose for a picture in front of Pinnacle.

Camp for families

To reflect the significant impacts of how families would experience their time together, “Family Camp” for 2020 has been renamed “Camp for Families”. This distinction is to help everyone grasp the significant changes that would be part of the gathering. Understanding the change to “Camp for Families” should begin with a primary experience with immediate family members vs. an experience with a group of other families. Interactions and conversations will still be a part of time together when done at a safe distance.

Camp has recently announced a cautious “go” for the “Camp for Families” gathering and participants will choose if they will or won’t attend. Responding to what we know, when we know it, has been the camp strategy since the beginning of the impacts of the coronavirus began. Camp will respond to any changes of state guidelines or if it does not feel it can provide a safe and meaningful experience for all who come at any point between the first day of Camp for Families I or II.

Guidelines for the experience include:

• WEAR A MASK when you are within 6′ of someone who is NOT from your home dwelling.
• WEAR A MASK when you are inside a building.
• MASKS ARE OPTIONAL when you are outside and beyond 6 feet of someone who is NOT from your home dwelling.
• ACCOMMODATIONS are only for families from the same dwelling unit.
• BATHHOUSES & BATHROOMS will be sanitized 3 times per day and have a limit on how many can be inside together. If all available sink, toilet and shower spaces are utilized, please wait outside or use another bathhouse/bathroom.
• MEALS will be offered cafeteria style and then enjoying the meal at a table with those from your home dwelling only. Tables will be spaced to provide 6’ of distance between families, and masks will be worn again when finished eating.
• CONVERSATION can be had between families while at their tables.
• CHILD CARE will not be able to be offered.
• WORSHIP will be devotional materials provided by our camp pastors daily as they evaluate their own attendance with this decision. Regardless, additional creative ways to “gather” (livestream or Zoom meeting?) will be considered.
• CRAFTS like tie-dye will be offered with sign-up times for individual families and disinfection performed in-between the next family.
• CRAFTS like friendship bracelets will be offered as a grab-n-go similar to cafeteria style meals.
• HIKES can be enjoyed individually or as a family group when maintaining 6 foot separation from others allowing easy breathing without a mask.

Pictured: Doug Swartzendruber impressively rebuilt the fire pit at Rocky Ridge.

who’s been helping

Ethan Frederick
Trenton Frederick
Natalee Rowley
Colin Roynon
Logan Stice
Riley Stice
Doug Swartzendruber
Ron Weaver
Marc Yoder

Come volunteer

RMMC relies a lot on the help of volunteers to keep the ministry going. Your help with any of camp tasks would be greatly appreciated! If you have interest in volunteering, call (719-687-9506) or email ([email protected]) RMMC.

• Long term volunteer: help in Food Service, Maintenance, and Housekeeping. Service term can be for up to a year if so desired.

You’ve been spotted

We spotted Audrey and Cara Roynon (Divide, CO) wearing their RMMC sweatshirts. Audrey and Cara are the daughters of Jenelle Roynon, program director at RMMC. The Roynon family vacationed at Ocean City, Maryland last summer, where Jenelle and Colin lived before moving to Colorado. The girls got to see the ocean for the first time and loved it.

Thanks, Cara and Audrey, for sharing RMMC with the ocean! Share your “spotted” photo with us. Email it to [email protected].

Mark your calendars

Summer staff have arrived and we’re working on a variety of new ideas that still fulfill our mission of being a retreat and community in God’s creation. Without campers, there is still plenty to keep us busy. Below is a list of things camp staff have been working on:

• 3rd Grade Resident Camp: July 17-19 (Cancelled)
• Family Camp I: July 19-24
• Senior High Wilderness Camp I: July 19-25 (Cancelled)
• Family Camp II: July 26-31
• Senior High Wilderness Camp II: July 26 – August 1 (Cancelled)
• Colorado Roots Music Camp: August 9-15 (Cancelled)

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