Bond Christian Service Camp: 2008

Friday, November 21, 2008

Let us hear from you...

It has been awhile since we have posted here. Although there are visitors most every day, new pics have not been forthcoming. So here is one of us at Paula's daughter's wedding -- to keep things going

If you have camp photos and you don't have them in digital format, please share anyway! We will scan and post them. Leave a comment on the guest book or contact us by email. The predominance of photos are Frank Bush's but your snapshots and memories are welcome here as well. Hope you will share.

Paula (Bush) McElwee and Deb (Fritz) Monroe

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Note from Leroy Thompson

It is fun to keep finding people we knew from camp. Here are some thoughts Leroy emailed recently:

I've beem looking at your pics from the old days at Bond. It has sent me into a whirlwind of reminiscing. Think for just a moment of the people in that group of friends from Bond that week: You, very effective Christian leaders; Pat H. a great local minister in his own right; Rick W, a prof and dean; and myself, a prof of ministry and chaplain. Think about this....a poor Little camp in the hills of Southern IL, a nowhere place really, in single typical week of camp that nobody noticed or remembered--just another week. Add to that Christian teenagers struggling to find themselves and their direction in life but committed to serving their Lord. Out of that seemingly unimportant event came Christian leaders. Pretty amazing, really. Who knows what God is doing even now?! Please excuse the reminiscences of a sentimental aging guy but I think it is also true.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

1957 High School Weeks

2nd HS wk 57 1:8 Claudia Price 1:10 Jonnie May 1:12 Lois Corbus 1:16 Merlene Hagler 1:17 Florene Paine 2:5 Cheryl Rush 2:10 Raye Linda Rush 2:11 Ronnie Lamb 3:3 ? Wilfong 3:8 ? Greenlee 3:12 Jim Ellston ? 3:15 Judy Parmenter 4:2 Daryl Terry 4:3 Dick Thayer 4:7 Bruce Parmenter 4:8 Charlie Wogman 4:9 Harold Oder 4:10 Don Paine 4:11 Max Whited

1st HS wk 57 1:1 Linda Boldt1:2 Ronnie Lamb 1:6 Connie 1:10 Judy? Ellsworth 1:11 Jane Reed 1:12 Marlyce Elam 1:13 Mrs. Ellen Reed 2:1 ? Boldt (sister to Linda) 2:5 Brenda Downen 2:13 Janet Elam 2:14 Mark Weaver 2:16 Carl Morhouse 3:1 Bob Longdon 3:5 Doris Corbus 3:6 Lana Tevis 3:12 Linda Altom 3:13 Frank Bush 4:1 Ronnie Siever 4:2 ? Bussman 4:3 Elmer McKean 4:6 Judy Dorris 4:7 Alice Schroeder 4:12 Dixie ?5:1 Ernie Lipple 5:3 Darryl Terry 5:4 Gaylen?5:5 Bob Kinney Jr. 5:6 Roger Elliott 5:7 Merle Melton

Campfire, before the lake

Before the lake, campfire was in the valley that became the manmade lake. Here is a picture of the "valley" before the lake was there. It is also the place where we had campfire from 1954 thru 1957. Here is the only campfire picture that Frank could find that was taken during that period. This seems to be a Jr. High or perhaps even a Junior week. He recognized only a couple of people. Judy Paine on the left and the Hendrix boy on the right.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Whether you were one of the 200+ who were blessed to spend Sunday, May 5th at the Annual Camp Rally or you just wished you were there ,,, photos from the event can be seen at

http://picasaweb.google.com/bondcamp54/CampRally08

Camp Rally 2008

Camp Rally opens the 2008 camp season... the 55th year of impacting lives for Christ.

Other photos taken can be seen at --- http://picasaweb.google.com/dsmonroe/CampRally08

They are there .... the good, the bad and the ugly!

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Some of Wilson Wiseman's shots, 1956 we think

1:11 Langel girl 1:13 Betty Turley 1:14 Danny Davis 1:20 Judy Paine 2:5 Mike Hendrix 2:10 Carol Paine 2:11 Langel boy 2:14 Sandy Schrumpf 3:18 Fred McKean 3:20 Whited girl? 3:21 Mark Weaver 4:8 Carl Mourhous 4:13 Frank Bush 4:14 Myra ? 4:15 Darryl Terry 4:17 Robert Longdon

1:7 Betty Turley 1:18 Carol Paine 2:1 Fred McKean 2:13 Colling girl 2:14 Lois Corbus 3:9 Elsworth girl 3:20 Russell Bone 4:1 S. Robert Johnston 4:5 Raye Linda Rush 4:8 Claudia Price 4: 9 Doris Corbus 4:10 Bill Stark 4:13 Cheryl Rush 5:1 Myra (?) 5:2 Frank Bush 5:12 Merle Melton 5:13 Carl Mourhous

1:3 Lois Corbus 1:13 Ron Holzhauer 1:21 Frank Bush 1:22 Paula Bush 2:1 Hershal Thompson 2:19 Ronnie Hagler 3:3 Merlene Hagler 3:7 Raye Linda Rush 3:8 Charlotte Schroeder 3:12 Mike Duft 3:13 Norman Ray 3:23 Mark Weaver 3:24 Deana Price 4:11 Roger Elliott (preacher from Herrick) 4:12 Mike Heston 4:13 Larry Iberg 4:14 Archie Fairbrother (missionary) 4:19 Carl Mourhous 4:25 Alice Schroeder 4:26 Janet Elam

Friday, April 25, 2008

The Last of Frank's portraits and photos

Seth Wilson

Tom Ewald

Marion Henderson

Marie Graham

Jim Taylor

Jim Correll

Melba Swedburg

Larry Doggett

Keith Sproat

Well, friends, this project began over a year and more than 500 posts and thousands of photos ago. We have now exhausted the photos in Frank Bush's library. It is time for everyone else to step up and provide anything you have to share with the group.

It has been fun for Frank, Deb, and Paula to put this forward and the memories have been wonderful, as have the renewed friendships that emerged. Bond Christian Service Camp certainly has been a factor in the lives of many of us, and the influence was and is immense. We will be forever grateful for the marvelous teaching and growing that happened there.