The CAMP BARAKEL Song

For more than fifty years, whenever and wherever former campers and staff get together, they sing the camp song. We still use it at every camp and retreat — in fact it's usually the first song we sing at the first Chapel.

We are grateful to a former camper and counselor from the late 1940s who wrote the words and music to this song. Nadyne Lyons Miller gave her life as a missionary soon after writing these words — she served in Japan until her death.

Camp Barakel, Camp Barakel, we're glad to turn again.
To this bless'd place, where truth and grace, from God's own Word abound.
Our lives anew we give to Him, to live and serve our best;
Camp Barakel, we'll ne'er forget, for surely God has bless'd!

This song was sung by a former camper in an Apollo space capsule orbiting the earth. One person told us he met a former camper in Nairobi Kenya, and they sang this song with smiles on their faces. Do you have a memory you'd like to share? Click here to submit your story.

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Here's a group of summer campers singing the camp song in West Side Chapel. [Download/Play (170 kB)]