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323 Camp Medusa Road
Medusa, NY 12120
(518) 239-4148
Located in the Catskills south of Albany, Camp Medusa is owned and operated by the Hudson Mohawk Association of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ, and is certified by the NY State Department of Health. The camp is inspected twice yearly. Inspection reports are filed at the Albany County Health Department, South Ferry and Green Street, Albany, Ny 12201.
Our youth camps are staffed by volunteers who are recruited through area UCC churches according to mandates of the NY State Public Health Code. Our goal in all our programming is to create an atmosphere where it is possible for persons to have "an experience in Christian living."
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Travel to the camp:
Click here for a map to the camp.
Take Route 32 to the traffic light in Greenville, NY. It is 8.4 miles to the camp from this light.
Take 81 west through Norton Hill, ignore the Medusa sign as you leave Norton Hill (2.8 miles from the light in Greenville.) Continue on route 81, (6.3 miles from the light in Greenville.) past the Town of Durham buildings, across the bridge. Turn right immediately after crossing the bridge. Go up hill along the creek.
Bear left at the intersection 0.4 miles up the hill, where Saybrook Hill Road and Saybrook Valley Road meet, do not turn right.
Make the next right turn, where School House Road starts. Do not go on School House Road. The camp is on the left, 1.5 miles. from the turn.
The first entry into the camp is at the ball field, where there is space to park cars.
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the 2006 season
included the following event,
sponsored by the United Church of Christ at New Vernon: http://www.uccnewvernon.org
mail@uccnewvernon.org
August 18-20 Family Vacation Weekend
Hosts: Rev. Stuart and Janet Stiles
This is the third year that the New Vernon congregation has had a family style vacation together, taking advantage of days for outings to places of interest, and spending evenings together for supper, vespers, and campfires. |
Some campers at mealtime.
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Visiting by a campfire. |
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Always a popular game table for family fun. |
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Parents relax too. |
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Results of a shopping stop. We make our own meals. |
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I like blueberry pancakes. |
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Porter Wright attends to his task as the maker of Porter's mortars in the photo on the wall, as his daughter Janet serves his great-grandson James a pancake for breakfast. |
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Parents tend to their children. |
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Quality time together. |
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Pastor Stiles leads the closing worship service on Sunday.
There were 19 overnight participants and 7 daytime visitors at this year's camp, representing three HMA churches.
How about joining the UCC New Vernon vacation weekend next year?
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Our goal in all our programming is to create an atmosphere where it is possible for persons to have "an experience in Christian living." |
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Covenant between the Hudson Mohawk Association and Camp Medusa
Recognizing that one of the purposes of the Hudson Mohawk Association of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ is to "express the oneness in Christ of the churches composing it and to make more effective their witness and service," (By-Laws, Article II, Paragraph 1); and recognizing that one of the instruments that the Hudson Mohawk Association provides to that end is Camp Medusa; and recognizing that the Camp Medusa Committee has been charged with general oversight of the Camp and its ministry,
We the Hudson Mohawk Association, gathered in Spring Meeting, May 3, 1986, at Camp Medusa, Medusa, New York, recommend that our clergy members, member churches, the Camp Committee and the Executive Council enter into the following covenant:
First, the churches of the Association will strive to:
1) Promote the Camp Medusa program and at least annually procure an informational update from a representative of the Camp Medusa Committee;
2) Establish a line item in their individual budgets designated for the support of Camp Medusa;
3) Participate in the care and maintenance of the Camp Medusa property by providing labor and/or materials, when requested and as needed;
4) Encourage members and friends to attend Camp Medusa events and provide financial support for same, when appropriate;
5) Provide lay adult leadership for Camp Medusa programs and support (through recognition and the provision of practical services, such as family care) for the same;
6) Encourage and expect their pastor(s) to spend one non-vacation week per annum serving Camp Medusa.
Secondly, the clergy of the Association will strive to:
1) Interpret Camp Medusa programs and needs to their congregations or constituencies;
2) Support the inclusion of a line item in local church budgets designated for support of Camp Medusa;
3) Publicize opportunities for lay members to participate in the care and maintenance of Camp Medusa property, and support the same;
4) Make known to appropriate members, or groups, in their congregations the financial needs of potential Camp Medusa campers and encourage the provision of funds to meet those needs;
5) Seek out and support those who might take on lay adult leadership roles at Camp Medusa;
6) Spend one non-vacation week per annum service Camp Medusa.
Thirdly, the Camp Medusa Committee will:
1) Provide frequent, timely and lively information concerning Camp Medusa's needs and programs to churches, ministers and the Executive Council of the Hudson Mohawk Association;
2) Convey specific information concerning financial needs to the churches, clergy, and Executive Council of the Hudson Mohawk Association; pursue other funding avenues, and act as good stewards of the funds entrusted to it for the operation of Camp Medusa;
3) Oversee the care and maintenance of Camp Medusa property and provide timely notice of opportunities for churches and ministers to participate in same;
4) Develop programming sensitive to the needs of Association members that augments the year-round programming provided by Hudson Mohawk Association churches; will notify churches and ministers in a timely fashion of the costs and dates of such programming;
5) Provide necessary training and support for lay adult leadership;
6) Provide varied settings and opportunities for clergy to exercise their diverse gifts and skills in service to Camp Medusa.
Finally, the Executive Council of the Hudson Mohawk Association will:
1) Promote the Camp Medusa program and encourage Hudson Mohawk Association member churches and clergy to live out their part in the covenant;
2) Encourage the establishment of line items supporting Camp Medusa in member church budgets and include a line item in the annual budget proposal for the Hudson Mohawk Association for the support of Camp Medusa;
3) Publicize through Association mailings, opportunities for member churches and clergy to participate in the care and maintenance of Camp Medusa property.
4) Encourage attendance at Camp Medusa events and urge the provision of scholarship monies by local member churches;
5) Canvass its committees and task forces for potential lay leadership roles at Camp Medusa;
6) Through its Church and Ministry Committee, explain the Camp Medusa Covenant to new clergy arriving in the Association, and encourage them to subscribe to it. |
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