Camp Como is the "nickname" for Colorado Christian Service Camp. The independent Christian Churches on the Front Range and the plains of Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas founded the Corporation in 1948. In the early years, tents were pitched each summer in the mountains around Woodland Park, CO., where youth camps were held. In 1963, the Rocking R Ranch was purchased near Como, Colorado, 10 miles N.E. of Fairplay. This 160-acre facility now hosts year round camps and retreats. Rustic housing can accommodate up to 200 guests. Since our founding in 1994, Christian Church of Estes Park has enjoyed a close association with Camp Como where campers have an opportunity to encounter and grow in Jesus Christ in this unique mountain setting. Led by Camp Como's dedicated Christian role models, many young men and women have made life-changing decisions to serve Jesus Christ as a result of their time at Camp Como.
For more information about Camp Como, visit www.campcomo.com
Each year, over the Memorial Day Weekend, Camp Como organizes its annual spring-cleaning event. Starting on Friday night, the camp literally springs to life with volunteers from all over Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and some folks all the way from Missouri, who come to prepare the camp for the summer camping season. It was during this spring-cleaning weekend in 2002 that the idea was born for Christian Church of Estes Park to assume responsibility for a specific cabin. In May of 2003 Christian Church of Estes Park initiated a program whereby our church assumed responsibility for maintenance and upgrading of "Triangle C", one of Camp Como's many aging cabins. We call this program "Adopt-a-cabin". "Triangle C" cabin was selected because it had been the favorite of the late Ralph Bloss, one of the founders of Christian Church of Estes Park who passed away on Easter of 2003. It is our hope that this effort will lead the way for other member churches to help renew the Camp Como infrastructure by adopting cabins of their own. This program also serves to reduce the maintenance load on an already over- taxed camp staff, whose time is better used to reach campers for Christ.
For more information about "Adopt-a-Cabin" at Camp Como, contact Christian Church of Estes Park at (970) 586-8586 or Gary Schultz.