A.R.E. Camp will remain closed through the summer of 2021 due to COVID-19 and a need to review and improve its policies and procedures to ensure a safer environment going forward. Although there are no A.R.E. activities planned at camp this summer, when there are final recommendations about the camp’s past and future, it is our intention for a camp community gathering to be offered - when the time is right - an opportunity to be together after a challenging year, a time to share the recommendations and to look ahead together. When we have more information regarding where, how and when for that to happen we will let you know. It is not likely to be this year.

In the meantime, let us consider this summer as a time for rest and healing for each other and for this place that many of us know and love, A.R.E. Camp. Let’s send warm, fruitful thoughts for each other, the grounds, the meditation groves, the meadows, the streams, the pond, and the buildings. May we/they feel the peace that only nature can bestow. Let’s look to returning together in the oneness of purpose to realize the A.R.E. camp ideals and the mission of A.R.E. – making manifest the love of God and humankind and creating opportunity for growth in body, mind and spirit.