2025 Summer Camps and Trips

Posted on March 12, 2025 by npc-laureny

2025 Summer Camps

Vacation Bible School (VBS)

Mon-Thu, June 30 – July 3, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
For age 3 through rising grade 6, join us for a morning full of crafts, music, Bible stories, and more!

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Splash Camp

Mon-Thu, June 30 – July 3 12:00 – 4:30 pm
For rising grades 6 and up, enjoy afternoons filled with exciting water adventures like pool time, creek exploration, and a dip in the quarry.

Download Forms (link)

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Chancel Drama Week (CDW)

Mon-Fri, August 10-15, 12:00-4:30 pm, Sunday, August 17, 9:00-11:00 am
For rising grades 3-12, learn and stage a faith-based musical in one week! Perform in worship on Sunday, August 17. Everyone is cast. Friends are welcome!

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Youth and Adult Volunteers we need your help to make each of these events successful.

VBS Volunteers (link)

CDW Volunteers (link)

VBS & CDW Contact Ingrid Ladendorf (email, x105)
Splash Camp Contact Mark Edwards (email, x108)

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2025 Summer Trips

Schedule your forms and final payment appointment.

Schedule (link)

Appalachia Service Project (ASP)

Sunday, July 6 – Saturday, July 12
Age 15 and up
Spaces are still available

Download Forms (link)

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Camino de Santiago

Tuesday, July 15 – Thursday, July 31
Age 15 and up
This trip is FULL

Download Forms (link)

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2024-25 Child/Youth Registration

Posted on August 12, 2024 by npc-laureny

Dear Parents,

Summer greetings!

We are excited about the coming program year at Nassau Presbyterian Church. This post contains registration and program information for the upcoming year.

REGISTRATION

We ask you to complete a new form each year to ensure we have accurate information on you and your child to ensure your child’s health and safety. If you have multiple children in your family, you will receive a separate registration email for each.

To complete your registration, please:

print the registration form that was emailed to you,
make changes/additions using the fields on page two,
with or without changes, please sign and date page one of the form, and
return these two pages to the church office as soon as possible – by Tuesday, September 3 or earlier – to make sure your child’s name appears correctly on our attendance lists.

If you are new to our church – Welcome! – or have an additional child to register, blank forms are available here and in the literature rack outside the church office:

Registration Form(pdf)

START UP DATES

This attachment lists the regular schedule and the start up dates for our program year long (Sept-May) activities:

Start Up Dates (pdf)

Please be in touch if you have any questions. With anticipation for the coming year!

Mark Edwards (x109)

Director, Youth Ministries

Ingrid Ladendorf (x105)

Director, Children’s & Family Ministries
Director, Choirs for Children & Youth

Ingrid Ladendorf to take a new role at Nassau

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Austin

To The Community at Nassau Presbyterian Church,

On behalf of the HR committee, we are excited to let you know that Ingrid Ladendorf has been offered and accepted a full time position with Nassau Church to staff both Children’s and Youth Choirs and Children’s and Family Ministries. Ingrid’s ability to build relationships with families, youth, and children, and especially new families, makes her a wonderful choice for this revamped position. Her position will now be full time and salaried.

After reopening our search for a part time director of Children’s and Family Ministry, we widened the search when few viable candidates arose. It became clear to the HR committee through this process that Ingrid was the ideal choice for Nassau in the here and now.

The leadership of the HR committee and Dave Davis as head of staff will continue ongoing conversations with Ingrid, Noel Werner, and Jeanne Radimer as Ingrid settles into this role. Obviously, there will be some conflicts because Ingrid cannot be in two places at once especially on Sunday mornings. We will also look to continue to ask parents and volunteers for specific tasks as well. Ingrid will make this transition August 1, 2024.

All the members of our staff, the HR committee, and the Session all remain committed to staffing our robust Children and Family ministry. Nassau is incredibly blessed. This spring and summer we have had a festival of baptism! We know the future for this ministry looks strong! Thanks be to God.

We all look forward to Ingrid Ladendorf continuing to share many gifts God has given her and expanding her role at Nassau Church.

Faithfully yours,

Dave Davis, Pastor

Anne Kuhn, HR Committee Chair

#MissionMonday – Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center

Posted on April 17, 2023 by npc-laureny

Celebrating and ensuring the indelible mark of Johnsonburg on the future

Over the past six weeks you’ve heard from friends and members of the Nassau community as they recounted their memories of Camp JBurg and their hopes for its future. We invite you to join the Cook Davis, Mackichan Walker, Olsen, and Wood Yeh families (among many more in our community) in supporting the “Marked for the Future” campaign.

Learn More & Donate

Camp Johnsonburg – Summer Camp Registering Now!

Johnsonburg is a place where all may gather, and all are welcomed in God’s beautiful creation…and we are registering for SUMMER CAMP!

As New Jersey’s only Presbyterian summer camp, we have been the highlight of summer for thousands of kids across our 63 years.
We’ve got six 1-week overnight sessions for kids in rising 1^st-12^th grades from June to August. We have tons of activities, and our camp counselors are carefully hired, screened, and trained to be great role models for campers. Summer camp has been shown to increase social and emotional wellness in children and youth, as well as teaching them to be more independent and helping them to make friends. Compliment the faith building you are doing in church and at home with what will be your child’s favorite week of the summer. For more information, visit campjburg.org/summer-camp

Learn More (Summer Camp)

Summer – Church School Curriculum

Posted on April 3, 2023 by npc-laureny

About the Curriculum: Ages5to10 Frontmatter Summer

At Home Resources: www.pcusastore.com/GGGdownloads

With advance notice, we can make copies for you during the week and leave them in your attendance folder. Contact Lauren Yeh (609-924-0103, x106)

Spring 2025 Semester

Stories, Colors, and More: Pages from SCM_Ages5to7_Year1Spring-2

These are the stories for Spring 11-14 (below)

May 18: Ages5to7 Year1Spring11

May 25: Ages5to7 Year1Spring12

Summer 2025 Semester

Stories, Colors, and More: SCM_Ages5to10_Year1Summer

Morning of Mission 2023

Posted on December 19, 2022 by npc-laureny

Come and participate in hands-on projects when we act on our Christian commitment to human flourishing in all places. All hands are needed and welcome.

HANDS-ON PROJECTS

Monday, January 16, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Assembly Room

We will be making pet blankets for orphaned animals, putting together sack lunches for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK), assembling Creativity Kits for HomeFront, collecting personal care products for Arm in Arm clients and making calendars for ABC Literacy. Donation items are listed below.
Contact Corrie Berg (email)

Creativity Kits for HomeFront

pkgs. of crayons (24–48 ct.)
pkgs. of colored pencils (24–28 ct.)
pkgs. of markers (10–12 ct.)
coloring books
coloring pads/sketch pads
individual packages of stickers

Personal Care Products for Arm in Arm

toothbrushes and toothpaste
shampoo and conditioner
razors and shaving cream
soaps and lotion
feminine products

COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP

Monday, January 16, 1:00-3:00 pm, Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve

We will work to remove invasive species within riparian restoration project areas, as well as install deer-exclusion caging to protect young tree saplings.

Registration Required with Friends of Princeton Open Space (link)

Contact Mark Edwards (email)

Lenten Devotions 2023 – Call for Writers

Posted on November 15, 2021 by npc-laureny

Ash Wednesday, 3/2/22 – Easter Sunday, 4/17/22

Would you consider writing a meditation for our 2022 Lenten daily devotional series? We are always hoping to encourage new writers to join us. These messages of faith and encouragement have become a meaningful tradition for our community, and for many beyond the Nassau congregation. We will share these messages through a daily email, and later, when the season is complete, as a PDF that can be downloaded from our website.

Participating easy — here’s how:

“God’s Hands and the Holy Spirit,” from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. Original source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/basta-cosi/1547659026/ – Jean Bean.

Each writer will be provided a choice of scriptures and guidelines for writing. Choose one or two verses meaningful to you, write a short reflection on them, and include a sentence prayer to close your reflection. It can be in any literary form: Prose, poem, haiku, dialogue, etc. Examples of our recent devotionals can be found on our website here (link).

It need not be complicated; simply from your heart. We have resources and helpers to guide you through the process. Please join us.

If you have any questions about the process or if you’re ready to sign up, please email Karen Barrows.

Childcare Opportunities

Posted on August 31, 2021 by npc-laureny

Childcare positions are available for the 2021-22 program year.

The positions are $12/hour, minimum of 2 hours per shift, 2 trained childcare workers are assigned to any one shift.

First Aid Certification with Infant/Child emphasis is preferred but not required. The Church occasionally offers this training to volunteers and childcare workers.

Before hire applicants must successfully complete our child protection policy training including a criminal background check and an interview with the Director of Children’s & Family Ministry.

Please contact Lauren Yeh (, 609-924-0103 x106) for more information or to schedule an interview.

Year-long (September to May)

Sunday Mornings, 8:45 AM-12:30 PM

2021: September 12 – December 19
2022: January 9 – May 15

Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30 PM

2021: September 22 – December 15 (except November 24)
2022: January 12 – May 11 (except April 13)

Seasonal

Special Services

December 19, 2021: 2:30-4:30 PM
December 24, 2021: 2:30-4:30 PM & 6:00-8:30PM
March 2, 2022: 6:30-8:30PM
April 14, 2022: 6:30-8:30PM
April 15, 2022: 11:30AM – 1:30PM

One-time

Weekdays On-call for Special Sessions

VBS & PresbyCamp 2021

Posted on May 1, 2021 by npc-laureny

June 28 – July 1, 2021

Last year, at Virtual Vacation Bible School we told stories of the Israelites’ captivity and exile to Babylon. As we began our own pandemic exile, we empathized with their grief as they missed their beloved Temple and traditions just as we were missing our church building and community.

It’s now a year later. We have walked this long road together but the journey is not quite finished. Although there a signs of hope, we’re starting to ask, “Are we there yet?”

VBS 2021 again looks to the stories of our faith to provide guidance for our life. Welcome to Wilderness Wanderings: God Prepares a People. This summer we will gathering together again (outdoors and in-person on the grounds of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Princeton) to revisit the story of the Exodus and the 40-year trek through the desert from Egypt to the Promised Land. Along the way, God provided water, food, rules for living together, and leaders for the people. As we journey through this pandemic, God provides for us—young and old, individuals and the church community—what we need too.

Use the form below to register for Vacation Bible School (age 3 – rising grade 6). Older students (rising grades 4-6) are also invited to add on PresbyCamp. Limited spaces available.

Service Opportunities for Morning of Mission 2021

Posted on January 12, 2021 by npc-laureny

January 18 – February 22

Make Lunches and/or Hygiene Kits for TASK

Sign up to volunteer over the next several weeks. to assemble bag lunches or simple hygiene kits at home for use at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.

Finished kits and lunches can be dropped off at the TASK main building, 72 ½ Escher Street, Trenton, New Jersey, Mondays, 8:30am-2:00pm. (Google Maps Link)