Latest News January 20, 2010 Online Staff Applications Available Staff applications are now available! This year applications will be done online . Please take a few moments to fill out some basic info, thoughtfully answer some questions and let the staff coordinator know when you're available! Deadline to apply is April 1, 2010. Apply now! Why would you want to be on staff? Well, it's fun and God intended for us delight in His creation and people! We also hope that by giving and serving we will all be transformed, because it's important to spend time in intentional Christian community, form new relationships and reconnect with old friends. Come and help us make our 17th year the best it can be! Click here to apply now. Questions? Contact Louise Griffin , SDC staff coordinator.   December 9, 2009 Summer Camp Dates 2010 Dear friends of the Sawyerville Day Camp! Thanks for all of your recent donations, birthday wishes, DVD orders, support for the "unofficial" Christmas effort--your support of this camp and all of its many programs is overwhelming! Thank you Thank you! I am pleased to announce the DATES for the 2010 Sawyerville Day CampS! We are moving to 2 sessions. More info about staff will be available after the first of the year on the website and on the Facebook group. One session conflicts with Special Session (another important ministry of the Episcopal Church) but since there are TWO sessions offered you may staff the second one. We will take about 60 staff members for each session. You will also be able, space willing, to staff both sessions. SO...drum roll please.... June 25-July 3:    Sawyerville Day Camp Session 1                            Summer day camp in Hale County sponsored by the Diocese                            Counselors need to be at least 16 years of age July 9-17:            Sawyerville Day Camp Session 2                            Staff must be at least 16 years of age Mark your calendars now! We will need your support in SOME way this summer. Love and Peace, Leslie November 11, 2009 Give the gift of Sawyerville! ‘Tis the Season…to give the gift of Sawyerville! "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." Luke 2:10 A very special Christmas card is now available to help raise awareness of the Sawyerville Day Camp.  For each $10 gift to the camp, we will send the Sawyerville Day Camp documentary DVD to the recipient of your choice along with a festive Christmas message.  We will indicate to the recipient that a gift was made in their honor to the camp.  What a wonderful way to tell your family and friends about this very special camp & give the gift of swimming, laughter, singing, arts n’ crafts and Christ-centered relationships!    Sawyerville Day Camp is a week-long Christian summer day camp in Hale County, Alabama sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. Campers come to camp at no cost and there is no staff fee! In 2010 the camp will move to full two sessions. This is an exciting next step! The staff is made up of high school aged young people, college students and adults from all over the Diocese and Hale County. Our goals are to serve the Church through outreach, to improve race relations in Alabama, and to broaden horizons of both the campers and the staff. To donate to the camp and participate in this program please fill out the order form and mail a check to the Sawyerville Day Camp, 521 20th Street North, Birmingham, Alabama, 35203 or donate online through our Facebook Cause . If you donate online you may email Leslie Manning your recipient’s information at  lmanning@dioala.org. Please contact Leslie with any questions. To download a form and see the Christmas message click here . September 30, 2009 Sawyerville - 'The Movie' Sawyerville, a 12-minute documentary about Sawyerville Day Camp is available for preview online and presentation to groups throughout the diocese.  read more.... To schedule a showing of the video and presentation on the camp, contact Leslie Manning, lmanning@dioala.org or call the Diocesan office at 205.715.2060 ext. 325.   August 30, 2009 2009 Camp Photos   Lots of photos from 2009 camps: 2009 SAWYERVILLE DAY CAMP 2009 SAWYERVILLE MINI-CAMP   August 6, 2009 Episcopal Life Online Article Hi everyone! Here is another article for your enjoyment. It was published a couple of days ago on Episcopal Life Online. Enjoy...   http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_112861_ENG_HTM.htm   August 6, 2009 A look back at camp...   Click here to read Reflections on Sawyerville 2009 by Isabel Hagood and Douglas Logan (scroll down to "Reflections on Sawyerville 2009")   July 20, 2009 Media around the state   What the Media Has Said:  Florence Times Daily  Tuscaloosa News  Montgomery Advertiser  Huntville Times (al.com)   July 8, 2009 Loading Truck We are going to be loading up the trucks at 1:30 at St John’s in Ensley this Thursday July 9th. The address for our storage space at the Episcopal Church formerly known as St Johns is:   2709 Ensley 5 Points W Ave Birmingham, AL 35218-2852   If you are able to help us load up then that would be awesome! If not as I know some of you will be at work, could you help us spread the word and perhaps get some volunteers out there? If there are enough of us there then it should not take too long. Email Leslie at lesliebridgers@gmail.com if you have questions! June 8, 2009 We need your prayers! This year is the sixteenth year that the Youth Department of the Diocese of Alabama in conjunction with the Sawyerville Commission has served more than 250 campers (ages 6-14) at the Sawyerville Day camp in Hale County.  Parishioners from all over the diocese have always generously supported the camp with bathing suit and camp supply drives as well as providing meals for the staff.  Another important way to serve the staff is by being a prayer partner.  Prayer Partners provide vital spiritual support to the staff and counselors. Serving on the day camp staff can be tiring, frustrating, challenging and overwhelming at times!  It is wonderful to receive a note of thoughtful encouragement from parishioners from all over the Diocese.   Prayer partners are asked to write seven letters of encouragement for every day of the camp during the first session (July 12-18). We ask that you pray for your assigned staff member everyday we are in Hale County. We would also love to have prayer partners for the second camp, our new mini-camp that will take place this summer after the full session. If you are interested in writing letters for a mini-camp staff person then we would love your help July 21-23 as well!  If you are interested in serving as a Prayer Partner and would like further information, please contact our coordinators, Linda Kennedy and Trey Kennedy, at (205) 324-7116 or at jik3@bellsouth.net.   June 6, 2009 2009 Sawyerville Staff Announced Drumroll please..... Introducing your new 2009 Sawyerville Day Camp Staff:     High School Staff: Richard Abbott Rachel Adamo Chambers Avery Meredith Bear Mary Celia Beatty Sarah Bender Wil Benton AC Black Paige Brendle Stratt Byars Betsy Cobb Emily Collette Olivia Collette Spencer Cox Kate Davis Daniel Deriso Emmy Faison Delia Folk RJ Garcia Emily Gardner Jordan Leigh Gibbs Caroline Hachem Isabel Hagood John Hale Thomas Hale Emily Hanson Bailey Hill Julia Horn Thomas Johnston Rachel Smith Aaron Kendrick Max Krebs Thomas Lane Ann Douglass Logan Sara Lowery Kathleen McClellan Saunders McElroy Jay McSlarrow Ginny Nix Addison Osborn Austin Osborn Josh Owens Bruce Parrish Carolyn Parrish Mitchell Parrish Catherine Poellnitz Ross Pritchard Andrew Rains Kimberly Shelton Vanessa Shelton Molly Shuster Maggie Sinclair Mary Catherine Smith Winn Smith Colin Thompson Tae Ayron Nelson Riley Turner Liza Lee Tweedy Paul Wallace Maddie Webb Dylan Westfall Heather Whaley Rob Whaley Alice Whatley Whitley Yeates Tim Workman Tyjuan Cole Te Ja Brooks Charles Dunson Jermaine Cole College Staff: Cary Benton Claire Debow Lizz Glaus Jessica Harris Thomas Huggins Bartlee Linton Emily Thornton Bobby Wason Anne Wilkinson Clay Cutler Hannah Ware Tee Neely Adult Staff: Bill Blackerby Mark Waldo Jonathan Chesney Louise Griffin Lindsay Joe Corey Jones Crystal Jones Carole Kelley Christy Neely Evelyn Pritchard Candace Reid Daniel Reid Leslie Manning Daniel Strandlund Worth Stuart Margaret Warren Brooks Boylan Mini Camp: Lanette Fargason Lynette Lamphere Brooks Boylan Jake Gray Leslie Manning Jessica Harris Lindsay Joe Worth Stuart Jonathan Chesney Shante Hamm Emily Thornton Lizz Glaus Bartlee Linton Claire Debow Seton Parsons David Berquist Maggie Sinclair      March 9, 2009 2008 camp memories!       Some of the pics from our 2008 camp are now posted.  Take a look and start thinking about our 2009 camp.....                 February 17, 2009 2009 Staff Applications are available Click here to download the 2009 Staff Application. 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