Retired former Saluda Association director of missions Delano McMinn cleans windows at Ridgecrest Conference Center with a South Carolina Campers on Mission team.South Carolina Campers on Mission have had a busy spring, readying Ridgecrest Conference Center and a youth camp for summer residents. Now, as temperatures in the South hover in the 90s, the volunteers have pointed their RVs northeast, and toward more missions projects.
In April, COM volunteers held their spring rally at Mile Creek Campground on Lake Keowee before heading to Ridgecrest Conference Center near Asheville, N.C. Seventeen inches of snow and ice storms had damaged buildings and snapped tree limbs. Volunteers helped clean up the campus and prepped the dormitories for spring visitors.
Next, volunteers traveled to Pine Hill Youth Camp in Bennettsville to help with construction of a new boys’ dormitory and to spruce up the grounds.
Some South Carolina COM volunteers attended the national Campers on Mission Rally in Illinois in June and then traveled to Rhode Island and other New England states for several weeks of missions projects, including helping flood victims get back into their churches and homes.
– With reporting from Yvonne McGee.
South Carolina Campers on Mission have been busy helping build a new boys’ dormitory at Pine Hill Youth Camp in Bennettsville.