Its time for jams and time for jellies

Nuts and goodies to fill our bellies

Time for crafts and for dcor
To deck from ceiling to the floor

Time to share some Christmas joy
With loved ones, every girl and boy

Time to think of YBC
It really needs our help, you see

So come along and be a part
Of our display of craft and art

Talk with friends and eat some lunch
And you will be as pleased as punch

Youll be blessed, and a blessing youll be
When you join these Friends of YBC!


Its Christmas Boutique and
Luncheon time once again!
Coming soon! Dont miss it!
Friends assist
camp projects
F
riends of YBC has recently pro-
vided funds for a new ceiling on
the girls dorm, two refrigerators for both caretakers
homes, and new paint on the lower home for a total
of $6,000.
In addition, the Woodward Park church singles
group has taken on the project of redecorating girls
cabin 10, and Friends has given them $700 toward
the project.
50th Celebration
judged a success!
O
ur YBC Fiftieth Anniversary cele-
bration has come and gone and
the glow remains. There was wonder-
ful participation of friends old and
new, the lessons, fellowship, and music
were rich and memorable, and camp-
ers took home many memories as well
as 50th t-shirts and other Camp keep-
sakes provided by Friends of YBC.
We are grateful to all who participated in any way,
and to all of you who have helped to bring Yosemite
Bible Camp this far in the past fifty years. Only in
heaven will you receive your just rewardtreasures laid
up during hours spent in work parties at camp, in plan-
ning and crafting together, and in teaching and caring
for campers all these years.
This past summer a total of 774 campers attended10
different camps, with 27 baptisms! Thank you, Lord!


The camp is the church at work outdoors.
The locale is different, and methodology may change,
but the purpose and power are the same.
Lloyd Mattson, in CampSight, 2007
http://campsight.ccca-us.org/dex.asp
~This Yodel was never published in print form.~

YOSEMITE BIBLE CAMP
50869 Sky Ranch Road 632
Oakhurst, CA 93644
Telephone 559-683-7006
tried to keep a good image of the camp before them.
Alicia walked the neighborhood with their children and
invited all the neighbors within a mile of the camp to the
fall BBQ. She cleaned cabins and bathrooms and the
kitchen before each of the winter camps. She has been
an active member of Friends of Yosemite Bible Camp,
designing and selling Camp t-shirts among other jobs.
And she did it all with a smile.
Alicia and Jeremy made wonderful and lasting friend-
ships with the camp directors and their campers. This is
just a portion of the things they did because each day
brought its new challenges, which they jumped into with
enthusiasm.
Sarg added, While I was there half a day, most of the
time Jeremy was there all day and sometimes into the
night. During the winter camps he was lighting the pilots
for heaters in the rooms that would be used at 6:00 am
so the campers would be warm. Last winter when the
camp froze solid for 2 weeks, he was working day and
night finding and repairing broken pipes, placing heaters
in strategic places to try and prevent problems and keep
campers warm and showers available. He knows where
the sewer system has weaknesses and how to prevent
problems during peak loads, how the water system
works and many of the complex plumbing issues that
exist. I could not have performed my duties while work-
ing at the camp if Jeremy had not been at my side.
Jeremy will now be able to work fulltime as a financial
advisor in his business, Inheritance Builders. Combining
his training as a teacher with his knowledge of finances,
Jeremy seeks to encourage the Lords people to pursue
a deeper relationship with the Lord, while practicing
prudent stewardship of their finances. Finances have a
place in the lives of a spiritual people, but not first
place. He presents seminars called Becoming Inheri-
tance Builders which he explains are designed to help
us place our priorities into the proper perspective.
The Becker family will be missed on Gods Mountain.
YBC bids caretakers,
the Beckers, farewell
W
hen the Becker family first came to YBC as care-
takers, baby Hannah was eight months old! For
the next eight years, while adding three more children to
their family, Jeremy and Alicia cared for the camp
alongside Sarg and Susan Sargentini, Alicias parents.
Most of us dont realize what is required of our camp
caretakers. Susan shared some thoughts recently on that
subject. Jeremy took care of the swimming pool, cut
wood, dug ditches, raked leaves and pruned trees. He
made hiking trails, spread gravel on eroding hillsides,
mowed the ballfield and did weed-eating all over camp,
in addition to blowing surfaces clean before each camp.
He cleaned rooms, plunged toilets, winterized the camp,
and kept air conditioners and coolers working.
Jeremy raised an ever-expanding family in a beautiful
way and did anything that needed to be done in and
around camp. He was a friend to the neighbors and
Hannah, Alicia, Jeremy, Wyatt and Jedidiah welcomed new baby sister
Jubilee Faith to the Becker family in August.