• Adult Choir – Dr. Shannon Jeffreys, Georgia Southern University • Youth Choir – David Mandt, Birmingham Boy Choir, Birmingham, AL   • Junior Choir – Teresa Granger, church musician from Georgia • Cherub and Primary Choirs – Whitney Head, South Marietta Baptist Church, Gastonia, NC and Elementary Music Teacher, Shelby, NC (writes for Growing in Grace and formerly from Alabama)


• Minister and Nibble Nook Speaker - Rev. Philip Bunch, Associate Pastor, Greenville ARP Church


• Crafts, Maria Morgan – Greenville, ARP Church • Recreation, Rebecca Drozdak - Centennial ARP • Children’s Church – Che Hooks, First ARP Gastonia • Children’s Church and Nibble Nook Music Leader – David Hooks, First ARP Gastonia


• Registrar – Lynn Rogers, Bonclarken Conference Center • Co-Directors – Lynn Grimsley, Centennial ARP and Trip McGill, First ARP Gastonia.


Bonclarken Camps: Bonclarken Music Drama Camp and Camp Bonclarken will be held in July. • Bonclarken Music Drama Camp (July 5 – 10, 2026) • Camp Bonclarken Session One (July 19 - 24, 2026) • Camp Bonclarken Session Two (July 26 – 31, 2026)


The applications for registration for campers will open on the Bonclarken


Website on October 15th, 2025 for campers for all three of these camps. Perhaps your church or circles, Sunday School Classes, etc. will help your children from your church to be able to come to camp.


Suggestions for helping kids come to camp this summer: • Grandparent or parents, you’d like to give a week of camp to your child


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• Costs for Bonclarken Music Drama Camp and Camp Bonclarken will be: $695 per week for overnight campers and $645 for day campers.


If you are of age to be a counselor and are an active member of an ARP


Church (or a church with fraternal relations with the ARP Synod), you may begin applying on December 1, 2025. Please consult the Bonclarken website or contact Trip McGill (tripmcgill@gmail.com) for details. To register as a conferee for the 2026 Bonclarken Music Conference, please consult the Bonclarken website (www.bonclarken.org). Information about reg- istration will appear on the website around January 15, 2026 with all dates and deadlines to apply for both the conference and housing. You may also contact Trip McGill by email: tripmcgill@gmail.com or Lynn Grimlsey: lynngrims@ gmail.com All registrations for all Bonclarken Camps and the Bonclarken Music Confer-


ence are handled online with Bonclarken. We look forward to seeing you next summer for one of our camps or the Music Conference or all of them!! Thank you again for your support of these camps and conferences and we covet your prayers as we plan and prepare for what is expected to be another wonderful summer at Bonclarken!


Trip McGill is camp director of the Bonclarken Music Drama Camp, Co-Director of Camp Bonclarken and Co-Conference Director of the Bonclarken Music Conference. He is also Organist and Director of Music at First ARP Church, Gastonia, NC and is the former choral director at Ashbrook High School, Gastonia, NC


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