Program

Camp Sojourner
Camp Sojourner is an overnight camp for girls ages 8-14, with 15-17 year old girls working as junior counselors. Our camp program focuses on team building, leadership development, self-expression through creative arts, and appreciation of the natural environment.

Our summer program is located in the Pocono Mountains at the New Jersey School of Conservation, about two and a half hours away from Philadelphia (www.csam.montclair.edu/njsoc). Buses take girls up to the camp at the beginning of the session and bring them home at the end of the session.

Activities at camp include: swimming, boating, hiking, team-building, campfires, archery, and creative arts such as singing, dancing, drawing, painting, drumming, sewing, and wood-working. We eat family style in a large dining hall, and sleep in modern wood cabins.

Teen Leadership

We believe that in order for young people to grow as leaders, they must be given authentic opportunities to act as leaders.

That is why GLC includes youth as a core part of our Advisory Board, and gives teen leaders the opportunity to participate in decision-making and plan camp activities.

Teen Leadership Development activities during 2007-2008 included leadership and communication workshops, retreat weekends, public speaking, event planning, committee work, and internships at the camp office. During the 2008-2009 school year, our Youth Advisory Board is working on building our camp program and helping to lead the service projects that other campers are also getting involved in. The two areas that girls have chosen to focus on for service projects this year are gun violence and global warming.