Ownership: Camp Asbury is one of three camp and retreat sites operated by the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Camp Asbury began summer programming in 1957. A thirty-one person Board of Camps and Retreat Ministries provides vision, policy and evaluation of all programs and facilities. The Board of Camps and Retreat Ministries is amenable to the Council of Ministries and the East Ohio Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Mission: The mission of East Ohio Camps and Retreat Ministries is to develop comfortable settings and implement quality Christian programs at camp and retreat sites through which the members of the East Ohio Conference and persons in surrounding communities can experience Christ’s love for them and all creation, and have the opportunity to share that love with others.

Camp Asbury’s mission-specific niche is to connect the site, a unique landscape that supports a diversity of northeast Ohio life, with the diversity of a 2.5 million person metropolitan area, and to discover and celebrate signs of God’s presence and activity in the interaction of people and landscape.

Vision: Camp Asbury’s Vision is to connect people and landscape in ways that reveal God’s presence and active involvement in human lives and the life of all creation. Camp Asbury is a sacred place to discover, celebrate and partner with God’s creative spirit.

Programs: In the summer Camp Asbury offers five-weeks of outdoor programming for children and youth; including short-term residence camps for grades 1-4 and week-long residence camps for grades 1-12.   All events are co-educational and emphasize small group living with an emphasis on Christian faith development. A few programmed family events are held during the summer season.

During the school-year Camp Asbury hosts weekday and weekend retreats and events for religious congregations, schools, community organizations and agencies. The camp provides limited program assistance for retreat and outdoor education groups. In the school year Camp Asbury serves approximately 5,000 guests.

Setting: Camp Asbury consists of 450 acres of forest, fields, and wetlands nestled in the headwaters of Eagle Creek Valley of northern Portage County. The camp is home to a diversity of northeast Ohio’s plants and animals. 80 acres of Asbury wetland were permanently protected in 2004 by a USDA Wetland Reserve Program conservation easement. Camp Asbury has been a certified tree farm since 1981 managed with a Forest Stewardship Plan revised every five years with the assistance of an Ohio DNR service forester. Camp Asbury’s Sugar Maple trees are annually tapped by neighboring farmers. Graded pure Ohio Maple syrup is available at the camp store.