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  The Social Concerns Box for JULY AND AUGUST is for CAMP Opequon Capital Campaign

Bethesda Friends is seeking donations during 2024-2025 to support and build Baltimore Yearly Meeting's (BYM's) summer youth arts camp (Camp Opequon) in Harper's Ferry, WV. Over the last 100 years, BYM Camps has grown to a family of four summer camp programs spread along the Appalachian Mountains – Opequon, Catoctin, Shiloh, and Teen Adventure. Serving more than 600 young people each year, each of our four camps offers distinctive programming tied together by the belief that there is “that of God” in each of us. As we enter the next century of BYM Camps, the creative arts camp, Opequon Quaker Camp, has moved to a new home at the Rolling Ridge Conservancy in Harper’s Ferry, WV. This beautiful, permanent home for Opequon Quaker Camp is the next step in the growth and long-term sustainability of BYM Camps.

Read below for more details of how our meeting community is involved in helping ignite the future for our youth in support of OPEQUON QUAKER CAMP – All support makes a difference

• To donate to this summer's Social Concern, please go to https://www.bethesdafriends.org/Donate-&-Support-the-Meeting, and designate that your contribution for the July and August social concern: the Camp Opequon Capital Campaign.

Camp Opequon

Special Campaign Fund 

Camp Opequon, one of four Quaker camps managed by Baltimore Yearly Meeting, relocated last year to a new site within Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a property with historic Quaker ties. The new site, a former camp with a lodge and other buildings, requires repairs and improvements.

• Bethesda Friends Meeting has pledged $20,000 to the Camp Opequon Special Campaign.
• For those who would like to make additional much needed donations, individuals can make contributions to BFM's Special Campaign.
• To donate, please go to our online donation page and clearly designate that your contribution is for the Camp Opequon Fund. 

Read more details about the camp and its needs or ask us via our Contact Us form. 

Helping Refugees Group
CALL TO ACTION

The Helping Refugees Group (HRG) has two action lists to help us mobilize in support of refugees

and immigrants in our area 

1. Click here for a broader list of ways that individuals and self-organized groups can undertake refugee and immigrant support in the DC area.
2. We also have a list of specific actions that BFM will begin in Fall 2025, which includes opportunities to volunteer with other folks from BFM at HomesNotBorders, KindWorks, and CASA.  

• Please join us!
• If everyone in our community does ONE ACTION, we will have helped many immigrants on a Meeting-wide basis! 

Please use our Contact Us form for more information.

END OF LIFE ISSUES

• BFM has formed an End of Life Group to provide legal, spiritual, and practical resources to help our community cope with the uncertainties and fears surrounding the end of life. 
• The COVID-19 pandemic significantly elevated concerns about the health of family and friends, and the possibility that they could become gravely ill and die. 
• Although conversations with our loved ones about such a possibility are difficult, it’s important to prepare.