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Johnsonburg Camp & Retreat Center (not just for kids!)

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Camp Johnsonburg – Hope, New Jersey

Looking for a summer camping experience for children or youth in your life (Grades 1–12)?

Camp Johnsonburg, an easy drive from central New Jersey, has been offering experiential Christian education since 1959 in support of the Presbyterian Church in New Jersey.

With a wide variety of sessions and programs, Camp Johnsonburg is known for its commitment to inclusivity, spiritual growth, friendship, and fun. Summer sessions begin June 21.

Learn more and register at campjburg.org/summer-camp/, or speak with Nassau members Penn Bowditch, Lolly O’Brien, Bonnie Galloway, or Elliot Freebourn.

Men’s Retreat at Camp Johnsonburg

February 27 – March 1
All men are invited to a weekend retreat featuring Bible study, small groups, outdoor activities on the 300-acre campus, reflection, and prayer. Rev. George Erlandson will serve as guest speaker, with Rev. Mark Studer leading worship.

Register at campjburg.org/events/new-mens-retreat/.

Women’s Retreat

Adult women are invited to a Women’s Retreat, April 24–26, focused on forgiveness: exploring one of Christ’s most pivotal challenges. The retreat offers space to step away from daily routines and find rest, renewal, and connection through worship, scripture exploration, small-group discussion, reflection, prayer, and time enjoying Johnsonburg’s lake and forested trails.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Heather M. Finck

Register at campjburg.org.

MLK Jr. Day of Service on Monday, January 19, 2026

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Join us for a full day of learning, service, and community as we honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and live out our Christian commitment to human flourishing in all places. All are welcome—come for one part of the day or stay for as much as you’re able.

ROBESON HOUSE TEACH-IN

“Where Do We Go From Here?”

Monday, January 19, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Sanctuary of Nassau Presbyterian Church
Begin MLK Jr. Day with a morning of learning and reflection as we explore the powerful, intersecting stories of the Robeson family and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and how their witness calls us to faithful action today.
Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/PRHPTeachIn26 

HANDS-ON PROJECTS

Monday, January 19, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Assembly Room
Join us for hands-on service projects for all ages! We’ll make pet blankets for orphaned animals, pack sack lunches for Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK), assemble Creativity Kits for HomeFront, pack personal care products for Arm In Arm clients, and create calendars for ABC Literacy. Bring donations to the Assembly Room through January 19.
Donation list: https://nassauchurch.org/an-advent-moment-of-mission/
Contact Ingrid Ladendorf (email, x105)

COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP

Monday, January 19, 1:00-3:00 pm, Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve, 57 Mountain Ave, Princeton
Spend the afternoon caring for our local environment alongside Friends of Princeton Open Space. Volunteers will help remove invasive species in riparian restoration areas and install deer-exclusion caging to protect young tree saplings.
Registration Required
https://bit.ly/NPC26FoPOS, choose the 1:00-3:00 pm session.
Contact Mark Edwards (email, x109)

COMMUNITY WORSHIP SERVICE

Monday, January 19, 7:00 pm
Princeton United Methodist Church, at the corner of Nassau Street & Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton
Join us for a Multi-Faith celebration of the life, faith, and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored by the Princeton Clergy Association and the Coalition for Peace Action.

You are also invited to join the pick-up community choir: the rehearsal is Monday, January 12, 7:00-9:00 pm at the PUMC, and warm up is 6:00 pm on January 19.
Choir Sign Up https://bit.ly/44X3Cdq

 

2025 Summer Camps and Trips

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2025 Summer Camps

David, Shepherd KingVacation 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!

Register VBS (link)

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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.

Register Splash (link)
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!

Register Chancel Drama(link)

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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

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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

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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

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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 1st-12th 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

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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

June

June 1: Ages5to7 Year1Spring13

June 8: Ages5to7 Year1Spring14

June 15: Ages5to10 Year1Summer1

June 22: Ages5to10 Year1Summer2

June 29: Ages5to10 Year1Summer3

July

July 6: Ages5to10 Year1Summer4

July 13: Ages5to10 Year1Summer5

July 20: Ages5to10 Year1Summer6

July 27: Ages5to10 Year1Summer7

August

August 3: Ages5to10 Year1Summer8

August 10: Ages5to10 Year1Summer9

August 17: Ages5to10 Year1Summer10

August 24: Ages5to10 Year1Summer11

August 31: Ages5to10 Year1Summer12

 

Morning of Mission 2023

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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

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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

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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