Community
Work Days

Share your light with the whole BYM Camps Community

Join us at BYM Camps for community events throughout the year!

Questions About Community Events?

Contact Brian Massey (brianmassey@bym-rsf.org) for more information.

Spring 2023 Community Work Days

Work Day Schedule:
9:30 am – Begin work
Lunchtime – Potluck lunch. Beverages & sandwich making will be provided.
4:00 pm – Work day ends

Please dress for the weather and wear heavy soled shoes, jeans and protective eyewear.
Friends under the age of 18 need to be accompanied by a Friend who is older than 18.

Spring Work Days

It is time to wake the camp properties up from their winter slumber! Come and help us get the camps ready for another fabulous Summer Camping season. Join us at the Camps for a workday this Spring! We will be cleaning, making some repairs to the property and getting things set up Camp.

Catoctin:

Saturday, April 8, 2023 – Get ready for HipCamp – and stay for a fire circle around 7pm
Saturday June 10, 2023 – Close HipCamp and get ready for Camp

Opequon:

May 13, 2023 – Open Camp

Shiloh:

Saturday April 29, 2023 – Open Camp

Volunteer Sign Up

The Great American Chestnut Restoration Project at Catoctin

Baltimore Yearly Meeting has received a grant to plant 100 American Chestnuts on our wooded acres! We planted 34 in the fall and we look forward to planting at least 66 more this spring.

Chestnut Planting and Easter Egg Hunt

Sunday, April 9, 2023
We will be watching to see if the Easter Bunny left us any surprises while we plant Chestnuts. Rebirth and Restoration! We will finish by 3:00 pm so folks will have time to get home for Easter dinner.