2024 Camp

Camp Dates: July 27, 2024 - August 3, 2024

Leaders

Song Leader: Burns Stanfield

Rhythms: Wendy Silverthorn

Creatives - Writing - Kirsten Nielsen and Shannon Smith Page

Visual Expression - Carol Powers and Louis Sirico

Speaking Leaders

Christine Powers

Christine grew up attending Winni JFO and has experienced the JFO program and her extended family of JFO campers as a pillar of her spiritual life.

Christine also attended Fourth Church in South Boston with Burns Stanfield for six years and experienced the joy of singing in the Fourth Church choir. Christine now lives in central Massachusetts and is a psychotherapist in private practice.

Christine will be speaking about the influence of embodiment on her spiritual practices and her experience walking the Camino de Santiago, a 500 mile pilgrimage route across Spain, in the summer of 2023. She is honored to be invited to speak.

Mike Hegeman

Mike started attending CFO/JFO when he was 16, and has been a regular attendee ever since.

Mike has been an ordained Presbyterian minister for the past 4 ½ years. He has also been an educator for nearly 30 years, having worked with all ages from preschool through graduate school. He holds a Ph.D. in Preaching and New Testament Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary, as well as Master's degrees in Divinity and Theology. Mike taught speech and preaching courses at Princeton Seminary for 10 years. He also taught English in Western China (1987), Israel/Palestine (2000), and in Germany (2011).

Mike's background is in music; he is a flute player and a composer of choral music.

Mike grew up in the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific and also in the Boston area. After the blizzard of 1978 his family decided that Arizona was very attractive, and they resettled there. Mike currently lives in Phoenix. He is a big fan and avid reader of the writings of Glenn Clark.