ECCC Bowling Society – est. 2009

It all started one night in Phoenix, Arizona when Van Beers and Bill Slocumb, two old friends met up and went bowling, cosmic bowling at that.

Going back 24 hours, what brought these guys to the Grand Canyon state?  Bill, staff of ECCC, and Van, Executive Director of Waycross Episcopal Center (Indiana) and ECCC Board Member, headed to AZ for an ECCC Board Meeting at Chapel Rock.

Little did they know, a chain reaction had been started…

Fast-forward to Jan 2009, ECCC has their Annual Conference of camp and center directors/staff, at Duncan M. Gray Conference Center, Mississippi.  Bill and Van were taking Tim and PJ (Sheldon Calvary Camp, OH) and Dave (Chapel Rock, AZ) to the airport, but had time before flights, so… to the lanes.

And a society was born.

ECCC Bowling Society – 2011 Guidelines

How to Join:

1. Bowl with a current summer or year-round staff member of an Episcopal camp, program or center.  Or bowl with an ECCC staff member.

2. Take a group picture and/or get the score sheet and send to ECCC Bowling Society members, Bill or Van.

3. While at the lanes, we highly encourage sharing high fives, fist bumps and dances when you get a strike

Then you get a bowling ID card!

Membership reaches 100+

Thanks to bowling over the past couple years, there have been 25 gatherings, and now have 100+ members, in 50+ dioceses in 35 states!

And there have been three bowling trips this Face to Face,

Kansas with Melodie Woerman, Diocese of Kansas Episcopal Communicator.

Minnesota with Sheila Foster, Youth and Children’s Minister at St. John’s in the Wilderness, Diocese of Minnesota.

Wisconsin, Camp Webb Summer Staff, Diocese of Milwaukee. (more about them later)

All are welcome to join.

-Bill and Van

p.s. for those wondering this blog is exactly 300 words long, a perfect blog. (a little bowling humor)

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